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March 2015

3/19/2015

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March 25: Local group discovers a Anchor Drilling Fluids operation in Jefferson County, OH is illegally operating without the proper permits.
lMarch 18: The PA DEP cites Chevron for failing to notify them of a defective primary casing cementing job within 24 hours on the Sargent 15H (API #37-125-26935) which occurred on or about May 8th, 2014.  The site is in Washington County, PA.
March 11: [video] A truck driver carrying 15 tons of fracking oil falls asleep and spills his load. Highway 64 is shut down in
Faulkner County, AR.
March 12
: Flood waters from Redstone Creek near its confluence with the Monogahela River overturn a wastewater tank on an Atlas site in in Fayette County, PA.  Approximately 15 barrels (630 gallons) of wastewater leak into the surface water.
March 11: The PA DEP cites
Dannic for OGA 3220(A) - Failure to plug the well upon abandoning it on its site in Butler County, PA.
March 8: Three oil tanks explode near
Killdeer, ND. The explosion is felt 5 miles away.
March 7: [video]
A Tervita oil waste disposal site just south of Williston, TX is destroyed after an explosion and fire.
March 6: [video] Fires burn for three hours after an explosion at an
XTO wastewater storage facility.
March 5: [video] 400 people from three states arrive in Galena, Ill to help put out an oil-train fire and spill next to the
Mississippi River.
March 2: Regulators say that
Meadowlark Midstream, a subsidiary of Summit Midstream wasn't using a remote monitoring system when one of its pipelines spilled nearly 3 million gallons of wastewater contaminating a nearby creek and two rivers near Williston, ND. Dave Glatt, chief of the Environmental Health Section says that it will take 5-10 years to clean up.
March 2
: The PA DEP cites CNX for
78.56(a)2 - PITS AND TANKS FOR TEMPORARY CONTAINMENT - Operator failed to design, construct, and maintain at least 2 feet of freeboard in a pit or open top tank in Westmoreland County, PA.  20 Barrels of salt water based drilling mud was lost to containment and the remaining 5 barrels was lost to the ground.


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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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February 2014

2/13/2014

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Feb 26-A gas well blowout in Acadia, LA has forced the evacuation of 40 people within 1 ½ mile of the well.  It will several days before the well is capped. [video]
Feb 20
-Cabot is cited with “Operator shall prevent gas and other fluids from lower formations from entering fresh groundwater. Failure to operate and construct the well to ensure the integrity of the well is maintained and health, safety, environment, and property are protected” in Dimock, PA.
Feb 18
-XTO is cited for “Improper casing to protect fresh groundwater Inadequate number of centralizers installed on surface casing. Spacing was 200', whereas regulations dictate that spacing should be no more than 150' apart” at a well in Forward Twp., Butler County, PA.
Feb 15
-Flames from a well fire in Greene County, PA go out 3 days after exploding.  One worker is injured and other is missing and presumed dead.
Feb 13-More than 600 barrels of wastewater spilled at an Oasis Petroleum well site in Williams County, ND.
Feb 13
-A Whiting Petroleum Corp oil well in North Dakota is leaking between 2,000 and 3,000 gallons per day of fracking fluid after a blowout preventer failed.  Some material reaches a nearby stream.  It take several days to control.
Feb 13-A NiSource gas pipeline explosion in KY injures two and levels two homes.  A nearby barns and cars are set ablaze.  20 homes near the 60 ft. crater were evacuated in the middle of the night [video]
Feb 13-1,000 gallons of crude oil spill when 21 rail cars crash in Westmoreland County, PA [video]
Feb 12-A gas well in Greene County, PA explodes.  One worker is injured and other is missing and presumed dead.  The fire burns for days.  [video]
Feb 12- Oil sprays onto agricultural land next to a Zavanna site in ND.
Feb 12
- Approximately 35 barrels of oil spills from a Newfield Production Co. site in McKenzie County, ND.  Some of the oil had sprays onto the snow and a small frozen pond near the site.
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December 2013

12/6/2013

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Dec 30-A 106-car train carrying Bakken Shale crude oil crashes setting off explosions and a fire that burns for more than 24 hours in ND.
Dec 27- Howard Drilling Inc spills residual waste at a site in the Allegheny National Forest.
Dec 23- James Burgess, 60, dies after a truck owned by a Texas oil and gas company struck him in Washington County, PA.  The driver and the passenger were drunk and fled the scene on foot leaving the pedestrian to die. [video]
Dec 21
- A lightning strike is suspected of triggering a fire at a gas well in Somervell County, TX.
Dec 20
- BP and Chevron are accused of dumping toxic radioactive waste into the swamps of Louisiana.
Dec 19
- A Washington County, PA Judge orders Red Oak Water Transfer to produce all photographs of an alleged fracking wastewater spill.
Dec 16
- On its way to a drilling sight, a truck spills hexamine on U.S. 35 in WV closing all four lanes of the road.
Dec 11
-A line froze on Cabot Oil and Gas site in Susquehanna County, PA causing a spill.  It was never reported to the DEP by Cabot.
Dec 9
-Wastewater spills on a RE Gas Development (Rex Energy) pad in Jackson Twp, Butler County, PA.
Dec 6
-Internal emails and documents expose a leak of 21,000 gallons of flowback water from Marcellus Shale drilling operations in Washington County, and the subsequent “cover up,” according to a motion filed in Washington County Common Pleas Court on December 6, 3013.  The well was operated by Range Resources.
Dec 6
-A natural gas storage tank exploded in Texas. [video]
Dec 5
-After an accident, workers on the Millennium pipeline in the Sothern Tier of New York vent millions of gallons of gas from a 10-mile-long stretch of 30-inch pipeline into the atmosphere forcing a local family to evacuate their home.


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October 2013

10/15/2013

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Oct 29-17,000 gallons of crude oil spilled from an eight-inch diameter pipeline in Smithville, TX. [video]
Oct 27-Two workers were burned at an Antero Resources natural gas well in Doddridge County.
Oct 25-According to records obtained by the Associated Press, there have been 750 "oil field incidents" including 300 oil pipeline spills in North Dakota since January 2012 without public notification.
Oct 11- Kendall Henson, age 26, wrecks while hauling a trailer loaded with drilling pipe on U.S. Hwy. 259 north of Nacogdoches, TX.
Oct 9- A truck hauling brine became stuck under an underpass and overturned a Belmont County, OH
Oct 8-At least one person is injured in a Gulf Coast Acquisitions explosion near Gillett, TX when a saltwater disposal well exploded.  Roadways around the explosion are were shut down. [video]
Oct 8-Two men are life flighted after their truck, which, according to the Sheriff's Department was carrying Class A cement for well fracking, rolled off the road in Lewis County, WV.
Oct 7-A man has been hospitalized with burns following an explosion at a salt water disposal site in West Texas.
Oct 3-Reports confirmed that a disposal well in OK shutdown after a swarm of earthquakes in the area.
Oct 2
-An unidentified male is killed after the water truck he was driving left Turkey Path Road in Bradford County, PA and rolled over, coming to rest upside down in a ditch.  The Fish and Game Commission and DEP were called to the scene after emergency crews noticed fluid leaking from the crashed water truck.
Oct 2-A study by Duke University found radium in concentrations 200 times above normal in a Pennsylvania creek that flows into the Allegheny River.  The radium, along with salts such as bromide, came from the Josephine Brine Treatment Facility in Indiana County.
Oct 2-Nathan Garber admits to injecting waste water into a Halek Operating ND LLC disposal well located in Stark County, ND after the company was told the well was not up to state standards.
Oct 1- A three-vehicle accident involving two trucks heading to the XTO plant on Hicks Rd. sends Butler resident, Aaron Lee Speed to Butler Memorial Hospital.  Police reported that Ralph Jones, 61, who had a Texas driver’s license, nor Jay Reinke, 34, of Wyoming, were injured.
Oct 1-Pipeline drilling in Harrison County, OH damages two properties.  The damages include contaminated water and a crack in the chimney and main beam. [video]
Oct 1- In Sewickley Twp., Westmoreland County Chevron is found to be operating with an unsound impoundment, torn pit liner, a spill to ground, and the addition of portland cement to drill cuttings without prior approval.

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August 2013

8/31/2013

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Aug 31- Kevin Figaniak, a 21-year-old Wheeling Jesuit University student, was beaten to death by Craig Tyler Peacock and Jarrett Mathis Chandler.  Peacock and Chandler are from out of the area and are reported to be working in the natural gas industry.
Aug 30- A Chevron pipeline leaked an unknown quantity of natural gas in the Gulf of Mexico near Pascagoula, Mississippi.
Aug 29- Jesse A. Grimsley, 31, of Shevlin, Minn, was killed in a Sheehan Pipeline Construction accident near Steubenville, OH.  According to the sheriff’s office, Grimsley had filed a daily equipment check noting "brakes will not hold on hill.”  Sheehan Pipeline Construction is based in Tulsa, Okla.
Aug 29- Michael Guesman of Cortland admits in U.S. District Court in Cleveland that his former boss at Hardrock Excavating, Ben Lupo ordered him to dump brine waste on 24 separate occasions into the Youngstown sewer system.
Aug 29-An oil rig exploded in Lavaca County, TX, triggering a massive fire [video]
Aug 27-Caller discovers tanker truck dumping brine water on the roadway and running into Clearfork Creek near Grayville, OH
Aug 23-A breached frack pond operated by Berry Petroleum flooded nearby residential property in Gardendale, TX.
Aug 22-Residents in Chartiers Twp., PA complained of burning eyes, throat nausea and a metallic taste their mouths after another flaring incident at MarkWest’s natural gas processing plant.  This is at least the third flaring incident at the plant in the past six weeks.
Aug 22-A pipe manufacturer in the Marcellus region spilled 5,000 gallons of sulfuric acid into the Shenango River.  
Aug 21-Chesapeake Appalachia is cited with not reporting two pollution incidents in Beaver County, PA.  Soil samples and eye-witness accounts suggest petroleum products and flowback wastewater spilled onto the ground. 
Aug 20-A 16-inch natural gas pipeline exploded in OK sending flames 200 ft. in the air and damaging a barn.
Aug 20-A semi-truck hauling for oil and gas wells in the area struck and killed 57-year-old Dan Wilson of Weirton, WV along U.S. 22.  The truck company was out of Indiana. [video]
Aug 20-West Virginia environmental regulators cited MarkWest Energy for causing a fishkill in Rocky Run, a tributary of Fish Creek after one of their pipelines ruptured.  Minnows, smallmouth bass and other species of fish died from the spill.
Aug 16-A Texas longhorn steer was killed by exposure to poisonous hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas from a pipeline leak in Alberta.
Aug 16- An Antero Resources site in Harrison County, WV caught ablaze sending three workers to the hospital, two via airlift.
Aug 16- Records were released indicating that OSHA cited Central Environmental Services LLC for the death of Brian Hopkins caused by an explosion at an EQT Corp. well pad in Taylor County, WV.
Aug 13-A landslide ruptured a MarkWest Energy pipeline in Wetzel County, WV causing a leak of an unidentified, but potentially explosive, liquid into a nearby stream.
Aug 13-Around 80 families were evacuated when a pipeline carrying gas byproducts ethane and propane somehow ruptured, caught fire, and exploded in IL.
Aug 10-A 24-year old was killed when a block from a New Star Energy fell and crushed him near Highvale, Alberta. [video]
Aug 7- A joint study from the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that a Nami Resources Company’s fracking fluid spill in Kentucky in 2007 likely caused the widespread death of several types of fish. 
Aug 6-A driver was cleared of any wrongdoing  for failing to stop after his 18-wheeler carrying fracking wastewater crushed a 14-year-old boy in Fort Worth, TX on April 24, 2013.  Deston Bibbs died as a result of his injuries.
Aug 3-In Tioga County, PA, Swepi Lp spilled 5 barrels of produced water from hole in the coil tubing unit onto the containment and pad. Holes were discovered in the containment liner.
Aug 1-A truck hauling brine collided with two cars in Vienna Township, OH.  Injuries were reported.  
Aug 1-In Lawrence County, PA, a Rockwater Energy Solutions truck carrying ethylene glycol to nearby fracking operations crashed spilling 265 gallons of the toxin poison in a field.  Unfamiliarity with the road was cited as one of the causes of the accident.
Aug 1-Two families in TX file a class-action lawsuit claiming that fracking caused damage to their real estate and homes.
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    Partial List of Spills, Accidents, and Violations

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    Compiled by MOB members

    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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