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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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    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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