The frackers are at it again with a 4,700 gallon acid spill in Bradford County PA. Scott Detrow of NPR reports “hydrochloric acid spilled at a Leroy Township, Bradford County well pad operated by Chief Oil and Gas on Wednesday.”
Detrow writes: The Department of Environmental Protection is placing preliminary blame on a valve failure. “The acid breached containment and flowed off the well pad,” emailed DEP spokesman Dan Spadoni. “Some of the acid was collected in a sedimentation pond, while the remainder flowed through a field and some reached a small tributary to Towanda Creek causing a minor fish kill. Dams were constructed in the tributary before any acid reached Towanda Creek.”
Pennsylvania has suffered several environmental damages since fracking began. Full Story: http://stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania/tag/bradford-county/
