Comments on: Penalties Assessed to Marcellus Gas Well Drillers for Disturbing WV Streams https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/11/05/penalties-assessed-to-marcellus-gas-well-drillers-for-disturbing-wv-streams/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 14 Feb 2024 02:06:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jim Sheehan https://www.frackcheckwv.net/2014/11/05/penalties-assessed-to-marcellus-gas-well-drillers-for-disturbing-wv-streams/#comment-135249 Jim Sheehan Wed, 26 Nov 2014 22:31:59 +0000 http://www.frackcheckwv.net/?p=13028#comment-135249 I'm glad for Ken Ward's reporting on this, and frackcheckwv! On Stone Energy at the Lewis Wetzel Wildlife Management Area, since I'm very familiar with their activity: The “slope failure” at #47-103-02680 is certainly not the only issue they've had in the WMA. An earlier pad of theirs in the same area slipped badly as well, and there was a violation on record for this at: https://apps.dep.wv.gov/oog/violations_new.cfm. As a result, the creek involved (Wyatt Run) was, and is, badly affected and that is a shame. The whole area is now an industrial zone, not a WMA. A few questions I would like answers to: Why can't I find this violation (or the one mentioned above) now? Was this a fine as well? How can we assess the industry without some reliable means to assess damages? Is this a win-win as far as industry/government is concerned, a lot of money for them and for us a legacy of blasted hills and ruined streams? I’m glad for Ken Ward’s reporting on this, and frackcheckwv!

On Stone Energy at the Lewis Wetzel Wildlife Management Area, since I’m very familiar with their activity: The “slope failure” at #47-103-02680 is certainly not the only issue they’ve had in the WMA. An earlier pad of theirs in the same area slipped badly as well, and there was a violation on record for this at: https://apps.dep.wv.gov/oog/violations_new.cfm.

As a result, the creek involved (Wyatt Run) was, and is, badly affected and that is a shame. The whole area is now an industrial zone, not a WMA.

A few questions I would like answers to:
Why can’t I find this violation (or the one mentioned above) now? Was this a fine as well? How can we assess the industry without some reliable means to assess damages? Is this a win-win as far as industry/government is concerned, a lot of money for them and for us a legacy of blasted hills and ruined streams?

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