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April 2014

4/11/2014

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April 30-A CSX train carrying fracked crude oil derails and bursts into flames in downtown Lynchburg, VA, spilling oil into the James River and forcing hundreds to evacuate. [video]
April 30- Two oil workers die and nine others are injured in an explosion at a RKI Exploration and Production well site in West Texas. Loving County Sheriff Billy Hopper says the workers were operating a rig that separates production fluids, such as oil from water.
April 27- Zachary Buckles, 20, of Glasgow, Mont, dies at a Continental well site 5 miles south of Williston, ND of apparent H2S gas exposure. This is the 38th oilfield death investigated by OSHA since fiscal year 2010.
April 25-Eight families sue a natural gas company for personal injuries they attribute to fracking operations in AK.
April 25-Four people are injured, due to a lightning strike a Southwestern Energy gas drilling site in Faulkner County, AK.
April 23-Around 20 garbage cans full of illegally dumped oil filter socks are been found north of Crosby, ND. 
April 23-An explosion at a Williams natural gas processing plant Opal, Wyo. causes the evacuation of the town.  
April 22-A six-person Dallas jury awards a middle-class north Texas ranching family nearly $3 million from Aruba Petroleum Inc. company whose drilling caused years of sickness, killed pets and livestock, and forced them out of their home for months.
April 18-500 tons of soil is removed after a “significant leak” is discovered at a frack pond operated by Range Resources.  There are questions as to whether or the DEP was properly notified. 
April 10-Chevron is cited with nine violations for their February gas well explosion in Greene County, PA including one count of refusing to allow state investigators onto the property, in violation of oil and gas laws.
April 9-High pressure causes approximately 650 barrels of oil and 450 barrels of brine to spill from a tank on an Oasis Petroleum site in ND.
April 9-A substance used to give natural gas its odor leaks from a dehydration station in Wyoming County, PA. [video]
April 7-A 37-year-old worker is found dead at a Noble Energy pump station in WV.
April 7-An illegally dumped “frack sock” (a filter used in the process that can be radioactive) is discovered  along the road in Dunn County, ND. [video]
April 5-Six families are evacuated after a 12-inch pipeline operated by Williams explodes. The cause of the explosion and fire is thought to be shifting earth. [video]
April 5- David Zamora, 43 from Victoria Texas, is crushed to death by a piece of heavy equipment at the Rice Energy Big Foot Pad Smith Township, Belmont County, OH.
April 4- A compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicle explosion kills 59-year-old Gerald Throw, of Sobieski, Wis. and injures passenger, 29-year-old Jose Perez of Green Bay. Sheriff's officials say a box-style truck was slowing to make a turn into a parking lot of Ace Manufacturing Inc. when its load shifted, potentially compromising the truck's compressed natural gas fuel system. That fuel system detonated.
April 2-A semi-truck tips over in Marshall County, WV spilling hazardous material on the road. The road is closed for nearly 12 hours.  Reports indicate several drums containing poisonous liquid spilled onto the road. A HAZMAT crew was called to work to clean up the mess. The driver of the truck was not endorsed to carry this kind of dangerous material and citations are pending, according to deputies.
April 2- True Oil Llc is cited by the DEP for violation of 78.55 - No Control and Disposal/PPC plan or failure to implement preparedness, prevention, and contingency (PPC) plan in West Mahoning Twp., Indiana County, PA.  The PPC plan involves the transfer of drilling waste.
April 1- Atlas Resources Llc spills and “unknown amount” of brine that is carried out of the secondary containment because of “[r]ecent precipitation events.”  A vegetation kill is noted.

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March 2014

4/11/2014

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March 31-Between 300 and 1,000 people are evacuated when the Williams Northwest Pipeline facility, in Plymouth WA explodes and catches fire.  Deputies say they don't yet know when residents will be allowed to return home.
March 31-Stone Energy Corp cited for 78.55 - No Control and Disposal/PPC plan or failure to implement PPC plan in Elk Twp., Clarion County, PA.
March 31-Stone Energy Corp cited for 78.55 - No Control and Disposal/PPC plan or failure to implement PPC plan in Ashland Twp., Clarion County, PA.
March 27-Rex Energy (Re Gas Dev Llc) cited for 78.56LINER - Improperly lined pit in Lancaster Twp., Butler County, PA.
March 25-At least 1,638 gallons of tar sands oil leaks from BP’s Whiting refinery into Lake Michigan.
March 25-A tanker truck rolls over in Harrison County, OH spilling drilling mud.  The driver took the turn too quick, rolled into the opposite lane and ultimately into a ditch. [video]
March 25- Swepi Lp is cited with 78.54 - Failure to properly control or dispose of industrial or residual waste to prevent pollution of the waters of the Commonwealth in Liberty Twp., Tioga County, PA.
March 22-A 4-mile wide oil spill is discovered by hikers in Utah’s popular Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument.
March 21-On a DEP “Incident- Response to Accident or Event,” XTO (Exxon Mobile) is cited with SWMA301 - Failure to properly store, transport, process or dispose of a residual waste in Buffalo Twp., Butler County, PA.
March 21- On a DEP “Incident- Response to Accident or Event,” XTO (Exxon Mobile) is cited with SWMA301 - Failure to properly store, transport, process or dispose of a residual waste in Connoquenessing Twp., Butler County, PA.
March 21- Rex Energy (Re Gas Dev Llc) fails to properly store, transport, process or dispose of a residual waste (SWMA301) in Forward Twp., Butler County, PA.
March 20- Trimont Energy Llc illegally discharges industrial waste to waters of Commonwealth without a permit (307CSL) just outside of State Game Land 25 in Cranberry Twp., Venango, PA.  This is their forth violation at the site in 10 days.
March 17-A 5-inch crack is discovered in a Sunoco pipeline running through the Oak Glen Nature Preserve in Ohio.  The EPA calculates that more than 20,000 gallons of crude oil leaked before anyone noticed.
March 13-Approximately 30 gallons of toxic brine spills from a Williams gathering line Susquehanna County, PA.  Ice had built up in an aboveground pipeline connection between the Jeffers Farms wells and the Zick Compressor Station near Route 106, causing the pipes to discharge brine.
March 12-Trimont Energy Llc is cited with 78.56(2) - Failure to maintain 2 ' of freeboard in an impoundment near State Game Land 45 Venango County, PA.
March 11-Trimont Energy Llc is cited with 78.54 - Failure to properly control or dispose of industrial or residual waste to prevent pollution of the waters of the Commonwealth near State Game Land 45 Venango County, PA.
March 11-Officials find over 200 industrial-sized black garbage bags filed with radioactive frack filter socks in an abandoned gas station in Noonan in Divide County.
March 10-A spilt wellhead is discovered on an XTO site in Indiana County, PA spraying oil, brine water & "white water."
March 4-A massive explosion and fire at an oil and gas drilling site north of Greeley, CO rocks neighbors out of their beds.  There are reports of injuries.
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    Partial List of Spills, Accidents, and Violations

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    As fracking and its ancillary operations are charging full steam ahead across Butler County, we are seeing almost daily reports of high profile and high volume spills, explosions, accidents, deaths, reported violations, fines and acknowledgement of old and continuing violations.  We thought that we would highlight a few to give you a sense of the destruction that fracking leaves in its path.   This is by no means a full list.

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