Pennsylvania - Gas Drilling Emergency in Bradford County

[sharon sanders]

By Jim Hamill 6:23 p.m. EDT, April 20, 2011




Officials said thousands of gallons of fluid leaked over farm land and into a creek from a natural gas well in Bradford County.

Now there is a massive operation underway to contain the spill of drilling fluids.

The rupture near Canton happened late Tuesday night, contaminating nearby land and creeks.


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http://www.wnep.com/wnep-brad-leroy-gas-drillingemergency20110420,0,1884646.story

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Pennsylvania - Gas Drilling Emergency in Bradford County

Drilling fluid gushes from northern Pa. gas well
Posted: 17 mins ago (AP)

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"As a precautionary measure, seven families who live near the location have been temporarily relocated until all agencies involved are confident the situation has been contained. There have been no injuries or natural gas emissions to the atmosphere," Chesapeake spokesman Brian Grove said in a statement.


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Chesapeake said a piece of equipment failed late Tuesday while the well was being hydraulically fractured, or fracked. In the fracking process, millions of gallons of water, along with chemical additives and sand, are injected at high pressure down the well bore to break up the shale and release the gas.

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Officials advised the farmer on whose land the well was drilled that his cattle could no longer drink from the stream.

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http://www.cnycentral.com/news/money/story.aspx?list=327738&id=608306