September 17, 2013
In November 2010, approximately 57,000 gallons of hazardous frack wastewater flowed from a holding tank on a well site operated by XTO Energy. Initally the amount was estimated at more than 13,000 gallons flowed from a 21,000 gallon tank. (In June of 2010 XTO Energy completed a merger with ExxonMobil. ) Which is it? 57,000 gallons or 13,000 gallons? From the press release from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s office: According to the grand jury, during that visit a DEP inspector discovered that a rear discharge valve on a storage tank had been opened and a drain plug had been removed, causing gas well waste water to flow out of the storage tank onto the ground. There also was evidence of prior waste water discharges from other storage tanks at the […]
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May 31, 2013
The barrage of public relations and damage control has begun in what may be just the tip of the drill bit. On its website, Minuteman Environmental Services’s (MES President, Brian Bolus, posted a letter to its customers. Bolus again blames former employees as he did in the press release dated May 30, 2013 “Several months ago I became aware that the Office of the Pennsylvania Attorney General (OAG) was questioning several former, disgruntled employees of Minuteman Environmental Services.” (In the press release Bolus stated it was 18 months ago, so that puts it at some point late in 2011). The posted customer letter further states, MES hired a former United States Attorney, now engaged in private practice, to represent them. Mighty big guns to handle a simple case of disgruntled […]
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