DEP Fines RW Products More than $21,000 for Illegally Dumping Drilling Mud in Bradford County (PA)

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/news_releases/14288

[font face=Times, Times New Roman, Serif]COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
Dept. of Environmental Protection
Commonwealth News Bureau
Room 308, Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg PA., 17120

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
05/3/2012

CONTACT:
Daniel T. Spadoni, Department of Environmental Protection North-central Regional Office
570-327-3659

[font size=5]DEP Fines RW Products More than $21,000 for Illegally Dumping Drilling Mud in Bradford County[/font]
[font size=4]Company Driver Intentionally Dumped Load in State Game Lands[/font]

[font size=3]WILLIAMSPORT -- The Department of Environmental Protection has fined RW Products LLC of Wheeling, W. Va., $21,029 for the illegal disposal of a reported 800 gallons of waste drilling mud on State Game Lands 219 in Warren Township, Bradford County, in December 2011.

“A driver for RW Products admitted that he intentionally dumped a load of oil-based waste drilling mud onto the ground,” North-central Waste Management Program Manager Patrick Brennan said. “This violated the Pennsylvania Solid Waste Management Act and the department’s penalty reflects this blatant disregard for the environment.”

The drilling mud was transported about 2.3 miles from Talisman Energy USA’s Strope gas well pad to Reagan Hill Road, where it was illegally dumped. Talisman conducted the cleanup of the mud and contaminated soil, which was properly disposed at the Hyland Landfill in Angelica, New York.

The fine has been paid to the state’s Solid Waste Abatement Fund.

The driver was arrested by the Pennsylvania State Police shortly after the dumping and has pleaded guilty to a second-degree misdemeanor charge of criminal mischief. He is scheduled to be sentenced in Bradford County Court on May 17.

For more information, visit www.dep.state.pa.us or call 570-327-3636.[/font][/font]

[Kolesar]

1. "criminal mischief"

Like papering somebody's house while they are on vacation, I suppose.

[OKIsItJustMe]

3. Yes

Now, let me get this straight. He drove all of 2.3 miles before dumping his load in state forest lands.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090555/quotes?qt0298600
“Just kids having fun.”

[Champion Jack]

2. A slap on the wrist...

[grntuscarora]

4. Pennsylvania.

The Whatever the Hell You Do, Don't Do What We Do State.

A fine that small is chump change and just encourages the companies to try it again. (I have no doubt the driver was doing what the company expected of him.) The PA DEP is a joke.

[blue neen]

5. You are correct.

The PA DEP will not be effective under Tom Corbett's administration. It's disgusting.