A gas wellhead leak in Ohio for the last three days results in evacuation of
homes within 1 1/2 miles and a 5000 foot by 3mile radius no fly zone.
http://www.wtrf.com/story/27622762/evacuations-continue-as-precaution-from-weekend-gas-leak
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(obviously, provided by the company which owns the well) (also, note all of the ads for fracking and shale at this paper's website)
Triad Hunter, ODNR Working to Prevent Explosion After Monroe Well ‘Blowout’ December 16, 2014
http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/619912/Triad-Hunter--ODNR-Working-to-Prevent-Explosion-After-Monroe-Well--Blowout-.html?nav=515
I wonder if Halliburton ultimately owns that Sardis one, too. Fuck Dick Cheney!
Here's a pic of a fire that broke out just this past summer, also at a Monroe County gas wellhead, just a couple miles up the Ohio river in Hannibal, Ohio. They had to evacuate neighboring homes for that incident, too. Courtesy of Halliburton.
http://www.wtrf.com/story/25894483/authorities-confirm-well-site-fire-in-monroe-county
Here's the result of that fire:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/01/3455464/fracking-fire-fish-kill/
An explosive fire at an Ohio fracking well was likely the cause of a chemical leak into a stream that contributed to the death of fish as far as five miles away from the the fire’s site, Ohio officials said Monday.
Over the weekend, a mechanical malfunction sparked a fire on the well pad of a fracking operation in Monroe County, Ohio, a blaze that caused explosions and forced evacuations of people who lived within a mile of the well. The people were evacuated as a precaution “because of the chemicals in the smoke, for breathing reasons,” Phillip Keevert, director of the Monroe County Emergency Management Agency, told the Columbus Dispatch.
“The plume of smoke overwhelmed the whole area, so you couldn’t really see the fire itself very well,” he said. “The pad site is probably, I’m guessing, a 3-acre area.”
While crews were fighting the fire on Saturday, they flooded the well area, which likely sent fracking chemicals into a creek nearby the site. That spill in turn likely contributed to a “major fish kill” in the creek that was reported Sunday. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources and Ohio Environmental Protection Agency are investigating the fish kill, which resulted in dead crayfish, minnows and smallmouth bass. The Monroe County Health Department is also monitoring well water to ensure chemicals don’t show up in tests. No workers at the well site, owned by Statoil North America, were hurt.
Halliburton delayed releasing details on fracking chemicals after Monroe County spill
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/07/21/details-on-chemicals-trickle-in-after-spill.html#sthash.YCYjgQbX.dpuf
A bit more on that same Hannibal fire and fish kill:
https://www.facebook.com/innformerwv/posts/783439238353449
https://www.facebook.com/innformerwv
Again, bastards.
