Article: Securing Chemical Supplies Becomes Major Concern in Harrison County, Miss.

By Timothy Boone, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 27--Richard Gollott never thought he would have to spend more than $6,000 and hire a full-time security guard to keep people from stealing anhydrous ammonia from his Biloxi seafood packing company.

"That was the least of my worries," said Gollott, vice president of Golden Gulf Coast Packing Co. on Bayview Avenue. "The ammonia tank is on top of a plant building. It's hard enough to get up there just to take care of the valves. To climb up there and steal is just insanity."

Anhydrous ammonia is used as a coolant in commercial and industrial ...

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