MarkWest Energy in Hot Water for Spills
Monday, August 12, 2013
According to the Columbus Dispatch, Denver-based MarkWest Energy is facing state sanctions and fines for pipeline-construction spills in eastern Ohio.
The Dispatch reports that in a March 8 letter to MarkWest, from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Nally, director of the OEPA, called the repeated nature of four spills “unacceptable.”
There were more than four spills, however.
Read it:
“As the EPA and the company negotiate penalties, agency reports show that MarkWest and its contractors have had 13 additional spills in Belmont, Harrison, Guernsey, Monroe and Noble counties, including a 1,200-gallon slurry spill that polluted a Monroe County wetland in July.”
Many of the spills stem from issues related to drilling in areas once used for strip-mining. Those areas, according to MarkWest attorney, Chris Jones, are difficult because soils and rocks are too loosely packed to contain slurry.
MarkWest currently has 52 pipelines in construction, or operating, in eastern Ohio.
» Via: The Columbus Dispatch › Pipeline driller still polluting
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