Exxon Charged With Illegally Dumping Waste In Pennsylvania

Exxon has been charged with illegally dumping over 50,000 gallons of wastewater at a shale-gas drilling site in Pennsylvania. From the article: 'Exxon unit XTO Energy Inc. discharged the water from waste tanks at the Marquandt well site in Lycoming County in 2010, according to a statement on the website of Pennsylvania’s attorney general. The pollution was found during an unannounced visit by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection. The inspectors discovered a plug removed from a tank, allowing the wastewater to run onto the ground, polluting a nearby stream. XTO was ordered to remove 3,000 tons of soil to clean up the area. Wastewater discharged from natural-gas wells can contain chlorides, barium, strontium and aluminum, the attorney general’s statement showed. “Criminal charges are unwarranted and legally baseless,” the XTO unit said yesterday in a statement posted on its website. “There was no intentional, reckless or negligent misconduct by XTO.”'

Comments

Re:Now what?

[MasseKid]

Someone mod this post up, and the story down. This kind of crap should never make it onto the front page.

Re:Can we have someone go to jail now, please?

[sconeu]

Agreed. After all, "Corporations are people too, my friend."

Re:No

[I'm New Around Here]

But to actually rise up against the establishment?
That's for college students, weed-smoking liberal hippies, unwashed OWS layabouts and Muslims.

Please provide recent examples of any of those groups actually "rising up", as opposed to simply "causing annoyance", "shouting down unapproved viewpoints", or "rioting, with a little rape thrown in".

Of course, if those gun-toting loudmouths actually used their weapons to show their disgust with the government, you would be calling them murderers and traitors, with "racists" thrown in for good measure. Give me a break; as if you actually want the right-wingers to act like you have them portrayed in your little mind. The people shooting other people are from the groups you surely think are being mistreated the most. Let's see you disarm them, eh.