Global Methanol Deaths Continue to Rise: 15,000 and Counting How can we track a pair of shoes delivered to your doorstep in real time, yet cannot trace a lethal chemical shipment once it leaves the dock? That single question exposes one of the most dangerous regulatory failures of our time. Over the past decade, more than 14,800 people have died worldwide from methanol poisoning , according to a global database compiled by Médecins Sans Frontières and Oslo University Hospital and reported by The Guardian . Nearly 80 countries have recorded fatal outbreaks since roughly 2015. Entire villages wiped out. Families blinded. Emergency rooms were overwhelmed. And yet the global methanol trade keeps booming. At the center of this shadow economy sits Tricon Energy , a USA based chemical and global trader with sales in excess of USD $10 Billion that openly describes itself as the Walmart of chemicals. Public disclosures show explosive growth, with tens of millions of tons of chemicals m...
