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This is your life on gas drilling
Let’s not have to learn the hard way
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What’s wrong with this picture?
A November 4th press release from the PA DEP reveals that while “numerous” people in Dimock have been without good water for, oh, a year, give or take, it takes an agreement process with DEP to force Cabot Oil & Gas to address residents’ need for “replacement” water. It takes an agreement process with DEP […]
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If at first you don’t spill enough, try, try again
Dimock, PA, approximately Thursday, 9/3:A blowout occurs during drilling under a road and wetland for a gas pipeline, resulting in a large spill of drilling mud. Witnesses report a greasy, gray film running down a water body. Local people who hear about the blowout have difficulty getting the straight story, despite persistently asking questions of […]
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Frack fluid spill, Buckeye Creek, Doddridge County, West Virginia
Copied with permission from http://sootypaws.livejournal.com/ ——————————————————————————– Buckeye Creek In late August the pit holding fracture flowback “water” for natural gas well 47-017-05815 was breached near Sherwood in Doddridge County (the north central part of the state). The pit was constructed within feet of Buckeye Creek (the state has no requirement for a minimum distance between ground […]
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Expert: “The industry has too little concern for …….. public health, for our groundwater resources, and for facts.”
Letter published today in the Cleveland Sun Star Courier: by James W. Cowden, Guest Columnist Monday August 31, 2009, 9:24 AM This is being sent as a result of the several letters on oil and gas drilling that have appeared in your pages over the past month. The other paper has also published material including […]
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It’s deja vu all over again: Natural gas well leak in Lycoming County, PA contaminating streams, ruining home water supplies
PA DEP Investigating Natural Gas Well Leak In Lycoming County WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is investigating a natural gas well leak at an East Resources well in McNett Township, Lycoming County. “East Resources is cooperating fully with our investigation, and has already implemented measures to stop the […]
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5 natural gas drilling workers hospitalized after exposure to acid in well site accident
http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=59425 Five Natural Gas Workers Hospitalized After Exposure to Acid NEW MARTINSVILLE, WV – According to WTRF-TV, as of May 20, five men were under observation in Wetzel County Hospital after being exposed to what Chesapeake Energy called “battery acid.” The station reported “Chesapeake Energy says there was no fire at the well site, just ‘an […]
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Encana, why’d you bother lining that pit at all?
May 14, 2009 – Encana buries frack pit waste onsite – right over a drinking water source. Colorado regulators are asleep at the switch. New York’s DEC inspectors are required to visit well sites just 3 times: before work begins, when the surface casing is cemented, and after the site is “reclaimed.” You thinking what I’m […]
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DEP: Schreiner Oil & Gas Co responsible for contamination of at least 7 water supplies in McKean County, PA
N E W S R E L E A S E COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIADept. of Environmental ProtectionNorthwest Regional Office230 Chestnut St.Meadville, PA 16335 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE5/4/2009 CONTACT:Freda TarbellPhone: (814) 332-6816 DEP IDENTIFIES RESPONSIBILITY FOR BRADFORD TOWNSHIP GAS MIGRATION/WATER SUPPLY PROBLEMS MEADVILLE – The Department of Environmental Protection has determined that Schreiner Oil […]
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19 head of cattle dead from chemical exposure in …… field next to Chesapeake / Schlumberger frack job
http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20090429/NEWS01/904290368/1060 http://www.shreveporttimes.com/article/20090430/NEWS01/90430061/0/NEWS Click on links for complete story and photo galleries DEQ: ‘Nobody is owning up to it’ By Vickie Welborn • [email protected] • April 29, 2009 Photo Galleries Cow Death Investigation Cow Death Investigation II SPRING RIDGE – An unidentified substance that apparently flowed from a natural gas drilling site into a pasture is is being […]