You break it: You fix it
Horizontal Frackers should be responsible for the damage they cause ;because it is the right thing to do!
Devon Energy Corp (NYSE:DVN)
“Hundreds of Oklahoma vertical wells are being destroyed by massive horizontal frack jobs,” stated the OEPA’s Oklahoma City Attorney and Regulatory Affairs director, Richard Parrish. “At least 47 or these ‘frack hits’ have been documented by the Oklahoma Corporation Commission as causing environmental pollution.”
The Corporation Commission currently holds the owner of the vertical well responsible for the pollution being caused by the horizontal frack jobs performed by others.
The Oklahoma Energy Producers Alliance supports HB 1379 and is calling the legislation the “Art and Yvonne Platt” bill. Art and Yvonne are lifelong Oklahomans whose forefathers participated in the Oklahoma Land run. They have now lost everything they have as a result of a horizontal frack job that destroyed their wells. “I’m 80 years old. We were depending on this lease for our retirement. We’ve spent every cent we had trying to fix the damage the horizontal operator in flicted when they fracked into our well,” Art Platt said. Now Art and Yvonne have been forced to leave Oklahoma and move in with their children in Texas.
OEPA Chairman Dewey Bartlett said, “We applaud Representative Taylor for addressing this issue and hope that this legislation will help bring OIPA-OKOGA to the table to hopefully find common ground on this problem. Horizontal frack events are costing small business oil and gas producers their livelihood and are endangering the Oklahoma environment in the process.” The Devon Energy Corp has been mentioned a number of times throughout the research of verifying this information. It should be noted that more information needs to be gathered in order to truly understand the full impact of the horizontal fracking in Oklahoma.
Source:
http://www.kake.com/story/40021280/you-break-it-you-fix-it
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