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February 2015

3/10/2015

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Feb 26: In response to an accident or event the PA DEP cites Pennenergy with SWMA301 - Failure to properly store, transport, process or dispose of a residual waste in Butler County, PA.
Feb 20
: [video]
One man is killed after an explosion of a wastewater disposal well Cheyenne, Okla.
Feb 17
:
A total of 30 barrels of oil spill impacting Charbonneau Creek in McKenzie County, ND.
Feb 16: [video] A train carrying shale oil derails and 19 cars explode in Boomer, WV despite being the newer
the supposedly safer, tougher CPC 1232 new model rail cars.  Oil leaks in the river and 200-300 people are evacuated.  One house was destroyed.
Feb 16: About 500 barrels of wastewater spill on a Hess operated site impacting a wetland in Williams County, ND.
Feb 16: 
Approximately 460 barrels of wastewater spill on a Hess operated well pad. Some of the spilled fluid escaped the site and may be impacting a nearby wetland.
Feb 15
: Man burnt in a fire at a gas well in
Westmoreland County, PA.
Feb 14: Just under 30 rail cars carrying oil derail and explode in
Northern Ontario.  The fire continues for two days.  The tanker cars involved were CPC-1232 model cars, modern tankers, hailed by the rail industry as safe.
Feb 14: [video] An apartment near Watford City, ND is evacuated after an oil well catches fire. 
Feb 11:
Multiple homes are evacuated in the night  following an ethane leak of a Williams pipeline in Chartiers Township, Washington County, PA
Feb 4: [video]
Equipment catches fire at a Range Resources site in Washington County, PA.
Feb 2: Over 100 barrels of waste water is spilled at a Keyrock Energy Llc site in Indiana County, PA.


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January 2015

1/2/2015

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Jan 31: [video] 11 train cars carrying crude oil come off the rails in Philadelphia, PA.
Jan 30: A grass fire is started by a pipeline rupture west of Big Spring, TX.
Jan 29
: [video] A
42-inch high pressure gas pipeline ruptures forcing people from their homes in Pike County, MO.
Jan 29
: A tank overflows on a
Oasis Petroleum site spilling 490 barrels of oil and 455 barrels of waste water in Williams County ND.
Jan 27: [video] A 20-inch diameter ATEX Express pipeline ruptures in Brooke County, WV creating flames visible for several miles. Two families are evacuated.
Jan 26: [video] Two Premier Tank Services workers suffer second and third degree burns during an explosion in Karnes County, TX while working on a oil filed tanker truck.
Jan 26: [video] A
gas well owned by TX based Pan Southern Petroleum, causes "massive natural gas explosion" in Smith County, MS.  There were 5 workers on site at the time.  No injuries have been reported.  A crew is being flown in fro TX to put it out.
Jan 26: [video] A pipeline operated by
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. of Houston, TX explodes in Brooke County, WV.  A nearby home is evacuated.
Jan 23:
A division of Hess Corp. spills more than 2,000 barrels of waste water at a site southwest of Tioga, ND.
Jan 24: One is injured after a fire broke out at a natural gas plant in Webster Parish, LA.
Jan 22:
70,000 barrels of waste water spill from a four-inch pipeline in Williston, ND.  The spill is among the largest in the state's history and contaminated nearby Blacktail Creek.
Jan 22
: A train derails
in Uniontown, PA spilling carcinogenic silica sand used in the fracking process six feet from a nearby house.
Jan 22: A
valve failing on the back of a  vacuum truck fails on a Cabot Oil site in Susquehanna County, PA spilling 10 gallons of wastewater.
Jan 20
: A fire at an oil pipeline shut down a highway near Texas City, TX.  Between 100-200 gallons of oil spill.
Jan 20: A report shows that
oil and gas companies have reported 35 spills involving more than 210 gallons, in Colorado since the start of the year.
Jan 20: [video] Residents evacuate after a gas plant explodes north of Corpus Christi, TX.
Jan 16: [video] Homes are evacuated after a pipeline leaks natural gas in their neighborhood.
Jan 16: Range Resources will give the state $1.75 million after it was caught misreporting how much water it drew from PA waterways to use in fracking. Jan 15: An unnamed employee of C&D Oilfield Services is found dead on a Denbury Resources well site in ND.
Jan 14:
Wes Herrmann, 37, dies after an explosion at a well site in ND.  Two others are injured.
Jan 7: An explosion occurs on a Citrus Energy Corp well pad in Wyoming County, PA.
Jan 6: Nearly 3 million gallons of fracking wastewater (or salt water) spills from a
Summit Midstream Partners LLC pipeline north of Williston, ND.  Two streams are thought to be affected. 
Jan 2:
[video] A person is dead after an accident involving a SUV and a water truck
Jan 1:
Eight oil storage tanks explode and burn through the night South of Williston, ND.


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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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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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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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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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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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July 2013

7/31/2013

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July 28-Jason Mearns, 37, of Beverly, W.Va., died as a result of a well explosion in New Milton, WV.
July 25-Slurry produced by the construction of the Appalachia-to-Texas Express Pipeline leaked into a creek in OH. 
July 25- The Justice Department announces that Halliburton admits to destroying evidence in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and will plead guilty to a criminal charge. 
July 24-A truck that carries fracking waste blew up killing a Wise County resident in TX.
July 24-Tommy Paxton, a 45-year-old from Walton, W.Va. died after an explosion on a well pad in WV.
July 23-An out-of-control natural gas well off the Louisiana coast caught fire. This is the second natural gas well in the gulf to fail in as many weeks.
July 22-Hundreds of residents were evacuated after a high pressure Dominion gas line ruptured in OH.
July 22- A crane tuck rolled off a road and over the hillside in Ohio County, WV, leaking diesel and closing the road.  The truck from coming from gas drilling site in Marshall County and is reported to be contracted by Noble Energy.
July 21-A Halliburton truck leaking hydrochloric acid closed part of Interstate 70 for four hours.  
July 20-A driver of a water truck was flown by helicopter to a Morgantown hospital after his truck overturned in WV.
July 18-Energy Corp. Of America is is caught discharging industrial waste to waters of Commonwealth without a permit in Moshannon State Forest in Clearfield County, PA.
July 18-OH Landowner accuses driller A.E.R. of dumping wastewater on his land [video].
July 18-The EPA fined XTO Energy (Exxon Mobil) $100,000 for violating the federal Clean Water Act for a two-month discharge of between 6,300 and 57,373 gallons of wastewater into the Susquehanna river system in Penn Township, Lycoming County.
July 18-Waste Treatment Corporation (WTC) received legal notice from Clean Water Action for their illegal discharge of oil and gas drilling wastewater (including chloride, bromide, lithium, strontium, radium-226, and radium-228) into the Allegheny River in Warren, PA.
July 16-Energy Corp Of America cited for 307CSL-Discharge of industrial waste to waters of Commonwealth without a permit in Moshannon State Forest, Clearfield County
July 14 & 15-A malfunction at the MarkWest Houston Gas Plant in Washington County sending large amounts of black smoke into the air for two days.  Residents report hearing a loud boom and seeing a mushroom cloud.
July 13-A gas well pad in Wetzel County, WV caught fire around 6:30 pm.  
July 12- A spill on a Penneco well site in Center Twp. left dead vegetation all the way and into Claylick Run.  There were reports of an oily substance released off site through pasture and into Claylick Run.
July 9- An oil field accident killed two men in KS.  Both were exposed to deadly hydrogen sulfide gas; a byproduct from the production of oil and natural gas.  It causes respiratory paralysis and is highly toxic. [video]
July 9-A gas leak in the Gulf of Mexico caused the greenhouse-gas methane to escape into the atmosphere.  The Coast Guard reports a "rainbow sheen" over a four mile area
July 8- Gas worker admits to dumping wastewater in the Big Sandy River after his boss told him to do so. [video]
July 8- A road in NJ collapses due to Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.'s Northeast Upgrade Project.  It will take 1 to 2 weeks to repair the road. [video]
July 8-Brine & produced water were spilled at a well in Lycoming County.
July 7-The media is reporting the between five and eight people were injured when a gas well exploded in Doddridge County , WV.  There is suspicion that the employer was violating mandatory work hour rules.
July 6-As many as 40 people are missing after a massive explosion caused by a derailed train leveled parts of Lac-Megantic in Quebec.  Up to 1,000 people were evacuated in the community. [video]
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May 2013

5/31/2013

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May 30- PDC Energy pipeline drilling operations polluted White Day Creek in Monongalia County, WV.
May 30-13 people were injured in natural gas explosion at Williams Gas Pipeline facility in Branchburg, NJ.
May 14-Explosion at Williams natural gas compressor in Brooklyn Twp., Susquehanna County [video]
Approx. May 22-A Louisiana man was killed at a North Dakota drillsite
May 1-More than 1,600 gallons of oil spilled from an oil storage tank into a creek in Trumbull County, OH [video]
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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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