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December 2014

12/14/2014

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Dec 24: [video]  Residents from a dozen homes are forced to evacuate Christmas Eve due to an explosion and fire at a Williams Partners L.P. Meter Station in Chartiers Township, Washington County, PA.
Dec 24:
The families that were evacuated due to the massive gas leak at the Triad Hunter pad in Monroe County, OH are allowed to return to their home.
Dec 23: The PA DEP
responds to an anonymous complaint in reference to a fire on CNX's Crum NV 55 AHS in Washington County, PA. CNX did not report the fire to the department
although serious damage occurred.
Dec 23:
Colorado-based Vantage Energy is forced to pay nearly $1 million in fines for damage to streams that was caused by a landslide and wastewater spill at a well pad in Greene County, PA
Dec 22: XTO is fined $2.3 million for violations of Section 404 of the Clean Water Act and will spend an estimated $3 million to restore eight sites damaged by unauthorized discharges of fill material into streams and wetlands in connection with hydraulic fracturing operations in WV.
Dec 22:
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company is fined around $800.000 for violations in
Pike, Potter, Susquehanna, and Wayne Counties in PA.  The violations include discharge of sediment into protected waterways.
Dec 19:
Two workers are killed (
Gary Keenen, 26, of Ada, and Kelsey Bellah, 27, of Tulsa) and three
injured (two critically
) after an explosion at a rig near Colgate, OK.
Dec 17: [video] A crew called in from TX is unable to control the gas leak at the Triad Hunter well pad in Monroe County, OH.  Families are told to expect to be out of their homes for at least another 7 days.
Dec 15: Rex Energy (Re Gas Dev) is cited by the PA DEP for SWMA301 - Failure to properly store, transport, process or dispose of a residual waste at a site in Butler County, PA.
Dec 14: [video] 30 homes are evacuated within a mile and an half after a gas leak at the Triad Hunter pad in Monroe County, OH.
Dec 11: Contractors working in the Marcellus Shale are forced to pay nearly $4.5 million in back pay to 5,310 workers in Pennsylvania and West Virginia after an investigation that found violations of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Dec 11: David Nesbitt, 51, of Wilkes-Barre, was killed after his water tanker slid on ice in Susquehanna County, PA.
Dec 11: XTO is ordered by the DEP to cease and desist in well construction on the Cratty Unit, in Butler County PA, after they were found to operating without the proper permits.
Dec 11:  [video] A large gas leak at a Comstock Resources well in Burleson County, TX causes the evacuation of 25-30 homes within a 2-mile radius.  It leaked gas at the rate of 2,700 cubic feet per hour
Dec 5: Wpx Energy Appalachia is cited by the DEP for OGA 3218(A) - Failure to restore or replace a public or private water supply affected by a well operator in Westmoreland County, PA
Dec 4: Markwest is caught operating a compressor station in Westmoreland County, PA without the proper permits.
Dec 4: Chesapeake is cited by the DEP for 78.85 - Inadequate, insufficient, and/or improperly installed cement, 78.73B - Excessive casing seat pressure, and OGA 3217(B) - Failure to prevent migration of gas or fluids into sources of fresh water causing pollution or diminution. Failure to properly case and cement well through a fresh water-bearing strata in regulated manner or depth in Bradford County, PA.
Dec 3: The DEP fines Cabot $120,00 for an explosion at a well site in Susquehanna County, PA that caused around 2,835 gallons of wastewater to spill, some escaping containment and reaching nearby soil, according to the DEP.  One worker suffered burns.
Dec 3: Trimont Energy is cited by the DEP for 78.85 - Inadequate, insufficient, and/or improperly installed cement at a well in Venango County, PA.
Dec 1: A Regency Energy compressor station explodes around 4 am in Susquehanna County, PA
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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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January 2014

1/7/2014

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Jan 31-A Canadian National Railway Co train carrying fuel oil and other hazardous materials derails and spills in southeast Mississippi, forcing the evacuation of nearby residents.
Jan 31-A Tulsa, Okla., is fined $1 million for dumping 4,700 gallons of crude oil into a tributary of the North Platte River.  An independent contractor was regularly draining produced water into the creek. Company officials were aware of the discharges, but did not report them to the authorities, the investigation found.
Jan 27- 1,000 gallons of crude oil spills into the Delaware River from a Monroe Energy LLC site in Delaware County, PA [video]
Jan 27
-A tank battery farm explodes in OK. [video]
Jan 27-A tank battery farm explodes in OJan 25-Flames shoot 200-300 meters in the air when a pipeline operated by TransCanada explodes South of Winnipeg.
Jan 24- Daniel Rice, 33, dies when his wastewater truck explodes in Knoxville, AR.  It appears methane gas had built up in the tank which triggered the explosion.  The explosion is felt as far away as a mile and a half from the scene.
Jan 23-Flame shoot 100 ft. in the air when a gas well explodes in Boston Heights, OH.  Workers on the site told witnesses "they heard something weird so they ran for their lives."  [video]
Jan 22-A pipeline ruptures spilling 1.6 million litres of wastewater in Alberta.
Jan 21-Old Glory Energy is cited for an improperly lined pit in Clarion County, PA
Jan 20-Train cars carrying crude oil and sand derailed on a Philadelphia bridge early this morning, leaving the cars intact but leaning over the Schuylkill River.  Sources suggest that the oil was from the Bakken Shale.
Jan 18-Wastewater pits flood after heavy rains and snow in Kennetcook, Canada.
Jan 16-The Brown family in Texas, blame 32 earthquakes in the past few months that have damaged their property on nearby waste injection wells. [video]
Jan 9-A worker is flown to a Youngstown, OH hospital with a head injury he suffered while clearing ice from a pipeline.
Jan 9-A federal judge imposes more than $280,000 in financial penalties on a Marcellus Shale surveying firm and a foreman who were caught using 19 undocumented Mexican workers on a project in northeastern Pennsylvania.
Jan 7-Train cars carrying crude oil and propane derail and explode causing the evacuation of about 150 residents in New Brunswick.
Jan 6-The Williams Natural Gas compressor station catches fire in West Windsor, NY. [video]
Jan 2-A tank explosion at a JB Oil & Gas site in Tyler County, WV send one worker to the hospital and sends fluid onto the ground.
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April 2013

4/30/2013

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April 30- 9,000 gallons of wastewater spilled onto a miniature horse farm and into the farmhouse basement and garage from a Carrizo well site.  Fluid spilled from another Carrizo well site in Wyoming County in March [video]
April 27-A considerable amount of natural gas and crude oil residue blew out of an Atlas Energy pipeline Lafayette Twp., Bradford County.
April 27-More than 100 barrels of oil-based drilling mud spilled into Cadron Creek after a truck accident in WV.
April 17- MarkWest natural gas operations in Butler and Washington Counties were cited by the EPA for being in violation of federal clean air laws.
April 11-Two men died after an explosion at Eureka Hunter Pipeline operations near Wick, W.Va
April 4-An explosion at a natural gas compressor station in Logan County, OK forced the evacuation of homes within one square mile of the incident.
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March 2013

3/23/2013

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March ??-DEP found "petroleum-based hydraulic fluid used in industry" in Hicks Creek .  It is unknown who or the when the dumping took place.
March 19-A compressor station caught fire in Bradford County, PA sending one worker to the hospital with burns. [video]
March 17-An oil tank on a pad in Columbiana County, OH exploded throwing its lid 400-500 feet into the yard of a nearby residence.
March 15-An explosion of a gas well with 30 ft. flames forced people from their homes in Chippewa Township, Wayne County, OH.  It was felt 3 miles away.
March 14-Frack fluid spewed at a rate of 800 gl/min. in Wyoming County, Pa [video]
March 9-A Spectra Energy compressor station in Clearville, PA spewed methane and other hydrocarbons over a period of three hours.  Local homeowners complained yet Spectra and the DEP denied the release for 6 six days.
March 9-Two children were killed when a water truck rolled over and crushed a car on in Clarksburg, WV.
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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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