Can you believe with all this evidence and more they are still denying contamination at the drill site, no wonder our farmers and beginning to get nervous. There is no compensation for any accidents in the UK!!!!! ------- Mr. Miller also testified that there were multiple leaks and spills at the Yeager drill site. Those included: • On March 25, 2010 a drilling mud and cutting pit on the Yeager well pad leaked into the ground, contaminated two springs on the Yeager farm and required the eventual excavation of 2,135 tons of contaminated soil and cuttings — the waste rock mud, and fluids from the drilling process. Mr. Miller said he didn’t know how much material leaked from the pit. The contaminated springs continue to flow onto the ground and into small streams that drain in the direcion of Mr. Kiskadden’s property in the narrow agricultural valley 4 1/2 years later. • In April 2010, the impoundment began leaking when a hole was mistakenly left in the double liner as it was filling and on April 20, a truck carrying residual drill cuttings dumped its load into the impoundment. • On July 14, 2010, flowback water, the wastewater from fracking, overflowed the secondary containment around the impoundment. Range reported that Weavertown Environmental Group had “vacuumed” it up. • on Dec. 7, 2010, there was a reported overflow of 84 gallons of refrack fluid and 15 gallons of diesel fuel at the impoundment. • on Feb. 8, 2011, between 10 and 20 gallons of “production fluid” was spilled on the ground from a truck, along with an unknown amount of diesel fuel. • on Apr. 6, 2011, a truck overturned and leaked fracking wastewater down the drill pad access road and across McAdams Road where the fluids seeped into a 50-by-70-foot section of a farm field. No remediation or soil excavation was ever done.
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:26:25 +0000
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