Ammonium Nitrate in Portsmouth's Port

With almost perfect timing, a company has put in a bid to Portsmouth City Council to store 5,000 tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate in Portsmouth's Port.
That's 5,000 tonnes of Ammonium Nitrate, almost double the amount of the same stuff that was stored in Beirut and exploded killing 150 and injuring over 5,000 people.
I'm not sure if the Council leader, Gerald Vernon-Jackson, has been under a rock and missed the headlines for the last couple of days but he is very keen to house the explosive fertilizer in his home city, saying that since the Port lost the contract to store bananas, it has been looking for new revenue streams to protect the council services which doesn't necessarily show a firm grasp of the concept of protecting.
From bananas to explosive substances is a big leap but i say go for it Portsmouth City Council and when future generations say what happened to Portsmouth, we can show them the big Portsmouth shaped hole on the South Coast.