The title might read better as "Driller departs; death to earth remains."
Let's get this straight, the Commonwealth’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) does not have a record of where wastewater from the two wells was disposed. The conclusion here is that either the wastewater is still sitting in a pit or it has been disposed of without proper notification and documentation by the Commonwealth.
Furthermore, I am more concerned about the statement from the DEP spokesperson, “If and when the wells are plugged.” Is that to suggest that these oil companies can just decide to not plug a well and walk away from it along with the wastewater?
Thus supporting the very argument I have made all along to encourage land owners to not enter into business with these folks. Once they rape the earth, they will close shop, walk away, and that $100K land owners got won't mean anything when they have frack induced illnesses and their land is declared a Superfund site.
When will they learn?
Seriously, why doesn’t Corbett et.al. just bend over and take it without lube from these oil companies a little bit more.
These are your tax dollars at poison and destruction in Pennsylvania, folks!
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All Days Are Black Now
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"We welcomed them with open arms, and they left without a goodbye."
ReplyDeleteNot even a reach-around or a pat on the back!
I am shocked -- SHOCKED! -- that drilling companies are able to destroy someone's property and depart with no one in the local government the wiser.
This is why we should all be Libertarians! Then we could boycott the drilling company, creating economic hardship upon them for leaving such a mess!
I asked a gas lease owner once why she did it and didn't she have these fears. Her reply, "Oh no. The state will make them replace the holes and ensure my safety."
ReplyDeleteIt made me really sad to hear her earnest voice.
It made me really sad to hear her earnest voice.
ReplyDeleteYeah. You'd think a landowner who was about to sign lease documents would do a little research first about just whom they're doing business with but I guess not.
Off-topic but related: I'm reading "All the Devils Are Here" which describes how the subprime meltdown happened. By 2006 people were signing mortgage documents and then not even bothering to move into the house because they knew they'd never be able to pay even the first payment. Why do people do that?!