Blog Article: "Butler County Breaking: Drilling Spills in Over a Dozen Creeks; 'Frack-Out' "
February 21, 2012
by Iris Marie Bloom
"The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission reported this morning that they are now investigating over a dozen different drilling mud spills in at least a dozen different freshwater creeks in the Connoquenessing Township area of Butler County."
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"Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission’s Officer Nestor confirmed today that the Commission is investigating about a dozen drilling mud spills that have occurred in the tiny Connoquenessing area since December 2011. Asked if they had investigated any spills earlier than that, he said, “maybe a couple in November 2011.” The spills are “mainly associated with pipelines, whenever they go under a stream and bore horizontally,” he said. Lubricants are used when drillers bore horizontally under streams and roads.
Officer Nestor said that the drilling mud, which he also referred to as bentonite, has “come into about a dozen different creeks.”
more at http://protectingourwaters.wordpress.com/
Evidently the Fish and Boat Commission is the last line of defense in the wholesale destruction of PA's waterways. I remember back when the worst they had to deal with was an occasional old codger fishing without a license or launching a canoe without a permit.
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