In New York and Fracksylvania, it’s legal to spread frack filth on roads as “de-icer” in the winter and “dust suppressant” in the summer. The towns and counties actually pay for the goo. If the frackers do that in Texas, they get fined, arrested and thrown in the pokey. For free.
Texans may be a bunch of atavistic thugs descended from Oglethorpe’s Penal Colony, but we aren’t so fracking stupid as to willfully slather our roads with toxic radioactive frack goo.
Texas Sheriff Wants Criminal Charges Filed in Fracking Pollution Case
Hauling company dumped toxic frack waste over eight miles of road faces arrest.
A Texas waste hauling company that is already facing civil charges for a March accident that spread toxic drilling waste along a rural road could also be facing criminal charges.
Karnes County Sheriff Dwayne Villanueva said he will ask county prosecutors to file a criminal complaint against On Point Services LLC after the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the Texas Railroad Commission close their civil cases against the company.
“We are prepared to ask the district attorney’s office to review the case for action,” Villanueva said. “There are two different levels of enforcement here: the civil by the state and the criminal by the county.”
On March 10th, Texas residents witnessed a truck illegally dumping hazardous fracking chemicals:
Under the cover of early-morning darkness in South Texas last March, a tanker truck ferrying fluids from an oil and gas drilling site rumbled down a country road spewing its toxic load all over the place.The concoction of drilling fluid, which typically includes undisclosed and dangerous chemicals, oil, metals shavings and naturally occurring radioactive materials, coated eight miles of roadway, according to a Karnes County Sheriff’s Department report obtained by InsideClimate News.
The spill has prompted an investigation by the sheriff’s department, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the state Railroad Commission.
Frack filth dumping caught on video
After investigating, On Point Services LLC was eventually identified as the offending company and after failing to report or properly respond to the spill, the local sheriff wants to see more than just civil charges filed against the company:
Karnes County Sheriff Dwayne Villanueva said he will ask county prosecutors to file a criminal complaint against On Point Services LLC after the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) and the Texas Railroad Commission close their civil cases against the company.
This illegal dumping was witnessed by residents on March 10, in the dark of night, but they followed the truck and captured it on video.Footage of residents following the truck can be seen here
Leave a Reply