Youngstown company’s owner fined, given prison sentence
Sunday, August 10, 2014
Benedict Lupo, owner of Youngstown’s Hardrock Excavating, has been fined $25,000 and given a jail sentence of 28 months, as reported by The Plain Dealer.
From November 2012 until January 2013, Lupo ordered two employees to dump thousands of gallons of fracking waste into a waterway that connects to the Mahoning River. The two employees who dumped the fracking waste into the water were given probation.
Aside from violating the Clean Water Act, animal and plant life in the water were killed as a result of dumping the fracking waste.
From The Plain Dealer:
“The wastewater was a byproduct of Lupo’s hydraulic fracturing operations — commonly known as “fracking” — consisting of saltwater brine and a slurry of toxic oil-based drilling mud, containing benzene, toluene and other hazardous pollutants.”
Via: The Plain Dealer > Youngstown contractor sentenced to 28 months for dumping fracking waste
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