'This is an increasingly sloppy industry”
as two recent examples. In both cases, he said, the company had emergency response plans that checked all the boxes but fell apart when tested.
Oil and gas companies stay in the black by drilling more and more wells, but Auch noted they’re getting a lot of public support too. Auch said the current rate represents only about 0.25% to 0.75% of operating costs. Adding in the average cost of fines only moves that needle to about 1%. “There was an actual study where they deliberately sprayed fracking fluid waste into an experimental forest in West Virginia,” she described. “And they showed that within 10 days, all the understory plants had died and then in less than a year all the tree species had succumbed.”
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