Citation Oil and Gas Corporation Fined
for Oil and Salt Water Discharge Into Clear Boggy Creek
(DALLAS – July 13, 2012) The Environmental Protection Agency has fined the Citation Oil and Gas Corporation of Houston, Texas, $22,000 for violating the federal Clean Water Act. Today’s announcement settles a Clean Water Act violation for an 11,970 gallon spill of oil and salt water into Clear Boggy Creek and adjoining shorelines in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma. The settlement requires the company to pay the civil fine within 30 days.
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Wow, just wow. Only $22,000 for a ruined travel water way. Just pocket change to them no doubt. That isn't even a smack on the hand.
Quoting: Isis7 Isis, if you have a look at the area in Google Earth, the scenario becomes more interesting. (lousy pic of word)
These co-ordinates show a massive fracking area, along with more conventional oil wells.
34°37'0.60"N 96°34'30.57"W
The really sad thing, is that if you use the 'time slide' feature in G/E, and just go back a couple of years, you find an area once flourishing with green trees, which is now a sea of dead trees, and only grasses.
The other thing I'd like to point out is the 'salt' release in to Boggy Creek.
That signifies that a natural aquifer exists in the area, plus a salt dome, and of course oil flows. The three ingredients for finding oil.
The salt dome is flooded by the aquifer, the salt dissolves, the oil allowed to fill the space vacated by the saline, and you get a 'reserve'.
Monitor and count the amount of saline water leaving the dome until only oil flows out of it (ie no salt left) and you have calculated what your oil 'reserve' is.
Now pump it chock full of synthetic bacteria, and you have pressurised and begun semi refining your reserve.
It will always refill. But you now know how much you have on tap.
All that fracking near by is worrysome though. The water table no doubt is ruined.
The reason for the low fine is probably due to that. They know its screwed, so why not make as much money from it while possible?
When does a localised issue become a national issue? When all the localised problems (contaminated water, fracked rock etc) all join and flow from one to another.
Shares in bottle water from over seas might be a good idea.
