This is not necessarily suspicious. There are a lot of explanations for an explosion at a coal fired power plant.
No, this is not at all suspicious. But, oddly, this event could prove devastating politically. Funny how that sort of thing is. This plant was already in trouble, facing being closed due to Obama’s promise to make the cost of Electric energy go up. This might be the nail that closes this plant permanently and almost a year early.
The impact of this on Ohio Congressional District #2 - Brad Wenstrup could be enormous. This is part of why Obama targeted these units along the Ohio River for closure. This is where all of those “bitter clingers” live. Stuart and Killen Station are about 1000 direct jobs in the two poorest Ohio Counties. There are about 2000 indirect jobs in Southern Ohio dependent on these Units and perhaps another 500-1000 Coal mining jobs as well.
Brown and Adams Counties are Purple not Red. Ohio 2nd for the moment is dominated by Clermont Country which is still BLOOD RED. But, Ohio 2nd also has a large number of voters in Hamilton County who are splitting 50/50 but trending blue. If Brown and Adams go Blue.. Ohio 2nd will flip. And, as this tragedy was designed to blow up in Wenstrup’s face, regardless of the explosion, this is now almost baked into the cards. Someone better wake up.