This "accident" is the one that got noticed and publicized ,how many screw ups are there in the mass drilling frenzy that get covered up right away and no one knows about till it shows up way down the road.
There are those that will ask you for the evidence and facts, and tell you that if there is no evidence it did not and could not happen.
You have to wonder what with all the locals jumping on the "pick me, drill here!" bandwagon if some landowners might be willing to look the other way and not ask any questions, rather than jeopardize a drill site that could become a major income producer...
The contaminated dirt which is chemical laden sludge they call drill cuttings is trucked away in hundreds of leaking dump trucks and roll off boxes all day long ,basically any old (and new) dump trucks that the locals can get on the road to work for the gas companies.They truck it to landfills in PA and central NY dump it and drive out of the landfill with that black ooze dripping off the back of the trucks,onto the roads and eventually washed into the waterways by rain.
This will also be disputed. The reasoning (logic? hhmmmnnn...no) behind this is that there are already other industries doing this, so it's somehow unfair to keep the gas drillers from doing it.
I'm reading that it is legal in PA to dump used frack water on roads to 'reduce dust'. The propagandists tell you that the frack water is harmless, yet the PA Dept of Ag are quarantining cattle that *may* have been exposed to it for months (up to 2 years!). It apparently isn't safe for cattle, but the rest of us (and flora and fauna) should be fine.
"Scientists" (paid by gas companies) are telling the public that tailings (drill cuttings) are perfectly safe, and they could be used as 'cover' (top soil?). There is apparently as "little radioactivity in the drill cuttings as you have in your granite kitchen counter". Now, think about the volume of kitchen counter it would take to fill a hole 9,000ft deep and probably 2ft in diameter...and then sideways for a few thousand feet more, and it's almost a dust. Why worry about radon seeping through cracks in your poured concrete basement floor?
If you think the DEP and EPA are on top of it your wrong,they are overwhelmed and undermanned to watch over the mass frenzy the gas companies are involved in. Some of the biggest drilling activity is taking part on PA state land leased to the gas companies.Like I said before the state's are broke and the gas companies have deep pockets.The politicians and state agency's will talk the concerned about the environmental protection measures to BS up the public but the gas companies will be drilling in NY state.One good thing is that when NY City planned massive lawsuits and a media blitz against the gas companies when they wanted to drill around the reservoirs that provide NYC with their drinking water the Gas companies quickly dropped their plans for that area because they did not want the massive negative exposure or well funded legal battle planned by NYC.
