Rover Refutes Ohio EPA Claim of 146K Gal. Spill @ Tuscarawas River
Yesterday we brought you the news that the Ohio Dept. of Environmental Protection (OEPA) had made claims, in a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), that Rover Pipeline's restart of underground horizontal directional drilling (HDD) near the Tuscarawas River had resulted in a second large spill of drilling mud--146,000 gallons (see OEPA Continues to Hunt Rover Pipe, Claims 2nd Spill Near River). OEPA claims to have spies that told them that while drilling 146,000 gallons of drilling mud had disappeared "down hole." That typically means the mud will reappear somewhere on the surface. OEPA does not regulate the Rover project--it is a FERC/federally regulated project. And that frosts OEPA's director, tattletale Craig Butler. Except this time it appears OEPA was mistaken, or perhaps acting on bad information. According to a statement by Energy Transfer, builder of Rover, there has been no "release" or "spill" of drilling mud a second time at the Tuscarawas River site...
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