Comments on: WV-DEP Issues Consent Order: M3-Gathering Fined $38K For Five (5) Drilling Mud Incidents

By: R. Scott Mick

R. Scott Mick — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:09:02 +0000

With this is mind, I ask what the overall disposal costs are for high viscosity drill fluid that has went hot and curdled, or flowback from these huge fracjobs. I would think it was high and I wouldnt think they can remove the radioactivity.

So now we have disposal nightmares and more and more desperate environmental issues growing as they drill/frac each new well. When will we have enough and what will we do when the water supply for thousands of people is tainted and ruined. Who will pay that bill.

By: S. Thomas Bond

S. Thomas Bond — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 02:46:50 +0000

…have proposed a settlement of Administrative Consent Order No. 7746 which resolves violation(s) of the WV Water Pollution Control Act which occurred in Harrison, Marion and Monongalia County… How nice it must be to negotiate a settlement.

Suppose the Highway patrol will let me negotiate a settlement of a traffic ticket? or the terms of a holdup, if I decide to try that?

And five of them for only $37,830? Not much of a deterrent. None of this “three strikes and your are out” stuff! It’s good to be a corporation!