DEP to US Engery: Stop Drilling
The Department of Environmental Protection has issued a cease and desist order to U.S. Energy for persistent and repeated violations of environmental laws and regulations.
The order prohibits the company from conducting all earth disturbance, drilling and hydro-fracturing operations throughout Pennsylvania.
Some of the U.S. Energy well sites that were cited are on the Allegheny National Forest and property owned by Bradford Water Authority.
The violations include failure to implement measures to prevent accelerated erosion, unpermitted discharges, failure to restore well sites, encroachments into streams and wetlands without obtaining required permits, and failure to plug abandoned wells.
This order stops U.S. Energy from building new sites and gives the company 30 days to fix those sites that already have been built.
More HERE.
The order prohibits the company from conducting all earth disturbance, drilling and hydro-fracturing operations throughout Pennsylvania.
Some of the U.S. Energy well sites that were cited are on the Allegheny National Forest and property owned by Bradford Water Authority.
The violations include failure to implement measures to prevent accelerated erosion, unpermitted discharges, failure to restore well sites, encroachments into streams and wetlands without obtaining required permits, and failure to plug abandoned wells.
This order stops U.S. Energy from building new sites and gives the company 30 days to fix those sites that already have been built.
More HERE.
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