EnCana Buries Hydraulic Fracturing Pit Sludge in Unlined Pit May 14, 2009

[cazzajecko]

Truly disgusting..how is THIS allowed?????

[jdcatskinner]

that pit was lined and there is a truck pumping out the water they are pushing dirt in there to crowd the water to one end and the frac company is not responsible for hauling the waste water away the operating company is

[wawrzyniec89]

you don't know shit about it. It is nessesery.long live oil and gas.

[batwing37]

lmao, simply just a water pit lmao. Fucking tree huggers!!!!!!

[crowefamily1]

they either bury it there or pump it down a hole either way it will get into the water supply it is just saving them some money, in creasing the company mans profit thats all. Don't worry about your children or grand children getting cancer you are helping make some one who makes around $500. - $800. a day get richer thats all.

[WhatTheDevil6]

GREEDY FUCKERS! LETS POISON THEM ALL!

[rozpoznawaniemowy]

have you called 911 especially police to stop contamination? If not it is complicity in the crime

[jhaack79]

Nothing wrong with Burying a little brine water, harmless.....

[gottyline08]

this is definetly NOT the proper way on reclaiming a pit like this. Had to be the contracters doing the work that messed that reclaim up becuz ive seen it done and have done it a whole different procedure

[2950johndeere]

there just puting the oil back where it came from it comes for the earth so why not put it back if god thought it was bad he would't have put it here for us to find

[ponyup9]

WATER PIT!!!

[gotaridetobefree]

Lol, speaking of god and blaa blaa. Seriously? It amazes me to how stupid ppl are these days. Ignorance is just another sign of stupidity hyuck hyuck. The world WILL come to a end if ppl can't heat their home drive to work stars air ambulance.... Over half of ever house hold product has petroleum products in in. Your clothes ffs! Edumacation u self before flapping your gums dooooyyyyyyyy!!!!

[jdevine40]

You have no idea what they are doing, yet portraying it as illegal. It looks to me that they are pulling a liner from the containment pit used to store fresh water. Anything can be taken out of context, don't just assume that these particular tree hungers knew what they were looking at.

[ChezKiva]

And, the moral is...? WHAT DRILL-MUD LINERS ?

This whole story is pure EVIL, and destined to read just like the saga of ENRON.

[safetyfirstpdt]

I appreciate your view on the industry, and will not for 1 second argue that there are still examples of pollution etc. I do want to let everyone watching this know that from someone who works in the industry (In Canada, I can't speak for other countries) the oil and gas industry standards for OH+S, pollution/contamination, site safety and road safety are the highest by far, of any other industrial applications. Not trying to belittle your point, just needed to state a fact from inside.

[majorl31]

I was on one of these sites yesterday making a delivery,they are all over the mountain and valleys,the road taking us to the site was carved into the mountain side

[biochemist1661]

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[Alexsslawncare]

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[biochemist1661]

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[youbetcherass]

ok. before we get all carried away, take a look at what there is to see in this video. there is a dv200 pump with a manifold coming off the back of the impeller casing (note: the SUCTION side) going into the pit. therefore if you knew anything about this, you would realize that this is nothing more than a pit transfer. the big pit you see there is just an alternative to having frac tanks hold untreated water. THAT IS NOT SLUDGE. trust me i think i know what i'm talking about.

[amoswiebe18]

thats just water



[apomeroy90]

Have any of you read directive 50? It is a complete directive that all oilfield companies need to comply to dispose of drilling waste. I work for an environmental company and I review lab results from pit like this and compose plans to dispose of waste in an environmental manner.

There are strict guidelines that companies must comply to. Unless you live in a mud house and ride a horse to work you have absolutely no say in what environmental aspects go on in the oilpatch.

[PlanetBillard]

The greed of these gas companies is disgusting. They put their profits over the heath of the public.

[CDNcatskinner]

When a video title claims to show "hrydraulic sludge being buried" Then please show that stuff being buried...all I see is an excavator removing a plastic liner and a dozer squeezing the last of the water that was in that lined pit towards the vac truck that is sucking it up....believe me, I have buried sumps in my time and that is not what was happening...I think you quit filming too soon, I'd like to see the actual trap and cap

[unbornduckman]

they just skim the black shit off the top then take samples of the water then use chemicals to nuturalize the water ph so in a sense its just dirty water not all the shit u people are talking about and its called a vac truck also encana probely employes most of the people and just encana all the oil and gas companies with out them hmm what would be left not a whole lot

[slingshotarkansas]

They are using the same technique in Arkansas. It is a toxic timebomb filtering into our soil and water. Why is this happening!?!!!

[fwilsonwftx]

Isn't that a vacumn truck with the pipe going into the pit? It kind of looks like they are trying to suck the oil off the top and the bulldozed is making the pit smaller so the vacumn truck can get it out! That just looks like oil on top I want it oil is $80 a barrell why would they bury money?

[ibjstmatthew]

the chances the of the chemicals getting into the drinking water is slim to none. The earth has it natural filters, dirt, clay, rocks ect.....

Trust me I am from Iowa we poor chemicals on the ground all year long.

[mostpacifistic]

Than why don't all the CEO's stick all this dirty sludge in their back yard, and plz dont give an argument that its their land. Its the people of the land that own it. First Nations and community members that live their.

[ibjstmatthew]

@mostpacifistic really that is your argument. Not in my back yard. It Is not black sludge. The top inch might have some black water but other than that it is clear.

Well most of the riggs pulled out of Colorado now. That means all those jobs are gone. You happy, A great industry giving people a decent living wage with little impact to the environment is gone. It is people like you that are horrible for the environment. Tell the nation where the clean Natural gas is coming from now.

[ibjstmatthew]

@mostpacifistic Not your backyard right.

Your a selfish person. You would rather ruin the environment for the whole country so you do not have fracs in your back yard.

Shame on you. You do not deserve to live in this country.

[paddleman256]

@ibjstmatthew if i wanted to ruin the environment i would say nothing and if i wanted to ruin the environment more i would defend every corporation for profit like you have.

[jimmyss10]

EnCana Oil and Gas (USA) has given $50,000 to a non-profit organization to help the Machebeuf Apartments in Glenwood Springs become more energy efficient. Also the new CMC by the airport was heavily funded by Encana, now understand i dont work for Encana but I am very tired of all the bad publicity there is many good things that come and i hope keep coming from oil and gas drilling. Thanks for your time

[jimmyss10]

Yes knowledgegetIT, we all do get our opinion and "jackass" is mine, and au contraire I work on the environmental side of this industry, i clean drilling fluids si it dose not contaminate the soil. Because i dont know if you live in this community, let me tell you some things oil companys have done around here

[DivideWatch]

I appreciate that gas field jobs feed families. That's a good thing, to be sure.

But, if that means my family has to be poisoned from bad water, these folks and I will never see eye to eye.

EnCana and others from the oil and gas industry have rallied workers around the idea that people that want breathable air and drinkable water cost jobs.

No, industry's greed & glut of the market has caused that.

Drilling safely creates secure jobs.

Jackass? Sometimes, but not this time.

[jimmyss10]

do you have nothing better to do with your time? You jackass get a job and stop watching other people work. You are just pissed you dont have the rights to the gas. I am i sure i was on that location at one point, and fed my family because of it.

[knowledgegetIT]

#2-siphon out as much of the sludge as possible. Then you mix off the remainder with sawdust and haul to a landfill disposal site, including the liner. You then can back fill with clean dirt after ALL dirty material is disposed of properly!!! Be careful who you call a Jackass. We all have opinions.

[knowledgegetIT]

#1-Feeding you family with an oil and gas industry job is an acceptable career. Knowledge and training in how to do a proper clean up is another! Poor workmanship is NOT acceptable! Proper clean up of a containment field, also know as a remote sump, should have started with Vacuum trucks. The vacuum trucks siphon

[12stringsforme]

Oh.

Did you swim in the pit? Take a drink of it? What was the exact location and date? If there is proof of location for this video, it looks like a slam dunk prosecution to me.

The drilling manager wanted to save one or two truckload costs to CCS. Sure it happens. But it's also illegal.

[TXsharon]

That's standard pit clean up in Texas. Encana is one of the dirtiest drillers on this planet.