Storage of ammonium nitrate in Canada so tightly regulated that a Beirut-like blast unlikely here

Friday, August 7, 2020 - 05:51 in Mathematics & Economics

There are federal codes and rules around the sale, transportation and storage of ammonium nitrate; it would be an extraordinary regulatory violation to have thousands of tonnes of the chemical languishing unchecked as officials say was done in Beirut.

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