The man who dug the rescue hole.
Richard Fernandez remembers another rescue.
Edit: And of course, we can’t forget the small Pennsylvanian company that made the drill bit. Between this company and drill operators, this disaster has shown the world what is good about rednecks.
A dam holding alumina, a chemical compound used in the production of aluminum, burst, but reportedly only 2% of the contained substance escaped. It’s difficult to imagine how this could be so considering that the dam appears to have failed catastrophically, at a corner, where you would least expect it to; but evidently alumina is not very fluid.
Two percent can’t be very much, right? For a sense of scale, try to find the heavy equipment in this photo.
Looks like a nice thick concrete dam. Think about this one if anyone wants to contain toxic by-product in fail safe dams near you.