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July 06, 2009
EPA Warns Two Texas Oil Wells to Stop Discharging
The Environmental Protection Agency has ordered the Hunter Energy, Inc. of Mineral Wells, Texas, and the Johnson & Ernst Operating Company of Wichita Falls, Texas to cease the discharging of brine and salt at their well sites in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Hunter Energy, at its oil field production facility in Palo Pinto County, Texas was found, during an inspection on June 15th, to be polluting a tributary of Lake Creek.
Johnson & Ernst, at its oil field production facility in Wilbarger County, Texas, was found, during an inspection on June 9th, to be polluting Camp Creek.
Both firms have 30 days to clean up the waterways of the brine and salt as well as the areas around the entry points leading to the waterways, and restore those areas, as reported by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at July 6, 2009 02:49 PM
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