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  • Leak at drilling site causes fish kill in Dimock Twp. (Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Site)

    09/23/2009 6:51:48 AM PDT · by Born Conservative · 7 replies · 589+ views
    Citizens Voice (Wilkes-Barre, PA) ^ | 9/23/09 | Staci Wilson
    A frac fluid that leaked an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 gallons from a pipe into a stream at a natural gas drilling site resulted in a fish kill last week. A fluid material, described as "frac gel," at a Cabot Oil and Gas Co. well site on the Heitsman property off Troy Road in Dimock Township leaked from a pipe and entered Stevens Creek and a nearby wetlands area Sept. 16. According to Mark Carmon, spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection, the pipe leaked twice on Wednesday. DEP is currently investigating a third spill of the same material...