September 14, 2017
Rover Pipeline has 104 confirmed spills along the route in WV, OH and Mi. More than any other pipeline built in the last 3 years. Reports out of Wv today that there have been more. FERC, permitting agency, has not given Energy Transfer Partners Rover Pipeline the go ahead to drill under the last 8 streams and wetland in Ohio that they need to complete to finish construction. (including Captina Creek, with the only breading population of hellbenders in Ohio, and 3 locations under the Ohio River)
There was an independent investigation into the 2-5 million gallon spill in Stark Co that destroyed one of our states highest quality forested wetlands along the Tuscarawas River. Covered an area the size of 9 football fields under 18 inches of drilling fluid.
Investigation outcomes
- Rover did not keep records that they are legally required too.
- We will never know how the spill happened as a result
- They are now required to have a 3rd. party inspector on site.
- They placed the spilled drilling fluid in a quarry in Stark county that has a direct link to Sugar Creek, and Canton Ohio drinking water supply.
- The spill material contained diesel fuel.
- The company is now required to monitor this water supply for 5 years.
- They must dispose of the spilled drilling fluid in a hazardous waste dump.
- Canton has stopped drawing water from that community well and has switched to increased water from a well NW of Canton. This switch has caused an entire community to have water that is brown and smelly. They are not happy.
- The Ohio EPA remanded the $900,000 civil penalty to the Ohio Attorney General. There has been no action on it as of yet. To be clear this is not a fine.