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[yoder]

http://www.organicco...ticle_28282.cfm
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), the world's largest energy company, was charged with illegally dumping more than 50,000 gallons (189,000 liters) of wastewater at a shale-gas drilling site in Pennsylvania.

Exxon unit XTO Energy Inc. discharged the water from waste tanks at the Marquandt well site in Lycoming County in 2010, according to a statement on the website of Pennsylvania's attorney general. The pollution was found during an unannounced visit by the state's Department of Environmental Protection.

The inspectors discovered a plug removed from a tank, allowing the wastewater to run onto the ground, polluting a nearby stream. XTO was ordered to remove 3,000 tons of soil to clean up the area. Wastewater discharged from natural-gas wells can contain chlorides, barium, strontium and aluminum, the attorney general's statement showed.

Just makes you want to go barf on their shoes.

[eds]

2013-09-11 Source:  Texas Water problems

[Shortpoet-GTD]

yoder, on 13 September 2013 - 02:05 PM, said:

http://www.organicco...ticle_28282.cfm
Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM), the world's largest energy company, was charged with illegally dumping more than 50,000 gallons (189,000 liters) of wastewater at a shale-gas drilling site in Pennsylvania.

Exxon unit XTO Energy Inc. discharged the water from waste tanks at the Marquandt well site in Lycoming County in 2010, according to a statement on the website of Pennsylvania's attorney general. The pollution was found during an unannounced visit by the state's Department of Environmental Protection.

The inspectors discovered a plug removed from a tank, allowing the wastewater to run onto the ground, polluting a nearby stream. XTO was ordered to remove 3,000 tons of soil to clean up the area. Wastewater discharged from natural-gas wells can contain chlorides, barium, strontium and aluminum, the attorney general's statement showed.

Just makes you want to go barf on their shoes.

Is it any wonder why we're getting cancers at unprecedented rates?
It seems like everyday there is another story about fossil fuel pollution.

"When the well runs dry" has been a lament of environmentalist's for a long time but if the water is undrinkable,
what difference does it make if there's plenty of it left?

[Phil]

Nissan Leaf or Focus Electric, that is the question!   If you keep buying it they'll keep drilling it.    I guess you could go with the BMW electric or Tesla if you have the spare change.

[yoder]

My wife and I have decided that our 8 year old Prius will get driven into the ground, which will probably be at least another 10 years, and by that time I fully expect that my next car will be all electric.  I am sizing our roof for PV panels and figure that by the time we are ready for our next car we will have panels to charge it.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Back to topic.

Update-
exxon is facing criminal charges but if history is the measure, it will be chump change for them;
just another slap on the wrist.


http://freethoughtbl...ing-fluid-dump/

http://www2.epa.gov/...-inc-settlement

[yoder]

Sad thing about this spill is that I've been in Pennsylvania near Philadelphia for almost a month and haven't seen anything about it in the news.

[Phil]

If at all possible do the install yourself, you'll save a bundle.  Right now you should be able to do under $1/watt after fed rebate!  Compare that to contractor prices.

[Tyler85]

Oh man, that Exxon criminals make me mad and angry. How sad this is...