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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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September 2013

9/30/2013

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Late Sept- More than 200 barrels of fracking fluid, oil and water blew out of a traditional oil well in NM due to pressure from a nearby Encana fracking operation.  The fluid created a stream of liquid that reached a half-mile in length and crossed the mail road. [video]
Sept 29-A farmer discovers a pipeline break that spilled 20,600 barrels of Bakken crude in his wheat  field.  The cleanup will take years and about $4M.
Sept 28-Five combustible containers at the La Grange Salt Water Disposal Plant in TX explode after being struck by lightening. 
Sept 28-A high-pressure gas well explosion in Salem, WV throws a worker 50 feet, causing him to be flown to the hospital in a helicopter. [video]
Sept 27-A tanker truck to bursts into flames at a Rex Energy well site near Carrollton, OH during a condensate transfer.
Sept 25-Pa Gen Energy Co Llc spills 20 gal of flowback fluid into the ground in Lycoming County, PA.
Sept 25- Interstate Gas Mkt Inc fails to plug a well upon abandonment in Toby Twp., Clarion County, PA
Sept 21-A fire at the Blue Racer Midstream natural gas processing plant at Natrium, WV closes route 2 for about 8 hours. About 25 people from 11 homes are evacuated for about 90 minutes early Saturday.
Sept 21-A gas pipeline suddenly ruptured and exploded near the Newton/Jasper County line in TX.
Sept 21-Around 1 am, a Dominion Gas Plant near Kent, WV explodes.  Nearby residents are evacuated and Rt. 2 was closed.
Sept 16-A Danlin Industries plant that supplies chemicals to the oil and gas industry in Thomas, OK explodes and burned for over 9 hours. [video]
Sept 11-12- Massive flooding in Colorado cause at least 11 ‘notable’ oil spills totaling 34,524 gallons of oil.
Sept 11-Report on Prairie Public about the death of 21-year old Dustin Bergsing on a frack site in North Dakota. [audio]
Sept 10-PA’s  Attorney General Kathleen files criminal charges against XTO (a subsidiary of ExxonMobil) for illegally discharging more than 50,000 gallons of toxic wastewater from a Marcellus Shale gas well site in Penn Township, Lycoming County.
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June 2013

6/30/2013

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June 26-Two county workers suffered minor injuries and at least 34 cars were damaged when a section of roadway sunk as a result of a Sunoco Pipeline LP project in Beaver County.
July 25- In Susquehanna County, PA, Chief Oil and Gas spilled an estimated 20 barrels of oil due to a valve that was left open.  It then leaked onto the ground through a hole in the plastic lining.  
June 25-A caller to the NRC reported a fire at an oil well near Ravenna, OH.  There were 150 gallons of oil released.
June 25-A 30-inch transmission pipeline exploded in Enon, LA causing the evacuation of 55 people.
June 22-A water tuck owned by JB Oil and Gas ran a stop sign killing a mother and her 14 year old daughter. 
June 21-PVR’s Chapin Glycol Dehydration plant in Monroe Twp accidentally discharged in the atmosphere.  This is the 3rd such event since the PVR Chapin plant went operational in late spring of 2012. [video] 
June 21 -32-year-old Greg Peacock, died from 3rd degree burns he suffered during an explosion at a well pad.  He left behind a two year-old son and fiancee.
June 20-50 homes were evacuated when a gas pipeline containing 1% deadly hydrogen sulfide ruptured southwest of Calgary after debris from a flood struck the pipeline.   
June 18-A 30-inch transmission line in Louisiana ruptured, sparking a natural gas explosion and a fire.
June 13- A gas line ruptured underneath the Ohio River near Bellaire spewing gas out of the water between OH and WV [video]
June 12 -A truck at a well in MI backed into a high-pressure line causing an explosion that knocked people over in a nearby home.  
June 12 -A Williams cracker plant in LA exploded killing 2 and injuring 100.  This is the same type of plant that is proposed for Beaver County.
June 7-Investigations determined that Vintage Oil illegally dumped formation fluids and fracking fluids into an unlined pit in CA [video]
June 4- PA DEP fined PVR Marcellus Gas Gathering LLC of Williamsport, Lycoming County, $150,000 for multiple and continuing violations of the Pennsylvania Clean Streams Law, the Dam Safety and Encroachments Act and various related environmental regulations, including sediment discharges into High Quality and Exceptional Value streams during construction of the Coal Mountain pipeline in four Lycoming County townships
June 4-Wastewate hauler Harch was ordered to suspend operations in OH after evidence was found that the company was illegally disposing waste in a private pond [audio]
June 3- SWEPI LP was cited in for “failure to properly store, transport, process or dispose of a residual waste” at their West 1 OG Well in Slippery Rock Twp.
June 3- RE Gas Dev LLC (Rex Energy) was cited for “discharge of industrial waste to waters of Commonwealth without a permit” at their Warner Unit 1H in Lancaster Twp.
June 1-A pipeline operated by a Texas-based oil company has leaked 9.5 million litres of industrial waste water in Canada.
June 1-A caller to the NRC reported that a water tanker truck was dumping into Indian Creek in Tyler County, WV.
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February 2013

2/23/2013

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Feb 26-One man was killed and another was injured in a drilling accident in eastern Ohio.
Feb 22-PA based Noble Energy spills over 95,000 gallons from a frack pond into a local tributary of Big Wheeling Creek in WV [video]
Feb 13-A blowout at a Chesapeake well sent fluid gushing into a stream in Bradford County, Pa
Feb 12-Over 12,000 gallons of “re-use” water was spilled at a Range Resources site in Cross Creek County Park, Washington County, PA
Feb 11-84,000 gallons of green oil-laden fracking fluid gushed from an oil well near Fort Collins, Co for nearly 30 hours
Feb 4-Approx. 840 gallon of waste water were spilled at the Rex/ McElhinney well in Forward Township, Butler County, Pa
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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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