Photo credit: Christy Wooten/Daily SentinelBasic Energy Services Brian Grayson skims oil off the top of the water in Oil Springs Creek Friday afternoon after approximately 170 barrels of oil spilled from a nearby tank that had apparently been shot.
Apparently someone was just out rabbit hunting, this time.
“A small game animal — a rabbit — and a .45 caliber shell casing were found at the scene,” Kerss said. “It’s quite possible whoever fired the shot was aiming at the animal and not the tank, but the bullet passed through.”
He said the hole had gone undetected for a few days before it was reported, and the amount of time that passed is what resulted in the amount of seepage.
Gunshot strikes oil already struck
Well on Oil Springs Road leaks 170 barrels
We have lots of unguarded drilling sites and well sites in Texas with tanks of oil and toxic water and natural gas. (Stuff that we don’t really want leaking out on the ground and in the water for several days before anyone notices.)
We have lots of guns in Texas.
Seems like a fubar in the making… Is anybody out there planning for the inevitable?
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Must have been Jed Clampitt. Seriously, some people have been predicting that gangs in the Fort Worth area will target gas wells when they figure out the bang for the buck ratio. Still others have predicted that terrorists might do the same. I hope one of those bought-off Barnett Shale economists at the BSEEC remembers to deduct the cleanup costs for gang activity from the Free Money equation.
Must have been Jed Clampitt. Seriously, some people have been predicting that gangs in the Fort Worth area will target gas wells when they figure out the bang for the buck ratio. Still others have predicted that terrorists might do the same. I hope one of those bought-off Barnett Shale economists at the BSEEC remembers to deduct the cleanup costs for gang activity from the Free Money equation.
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Cleanup costs: We are on our own when it comes to the cleanup costs. Big Oil will claim no responsibility.
The Fort Worth City Council should draft a resolution (they should have done this long ago, it’s probably too late now) holding Big Oil financially responsible for any environmental damage PERIOD.
Residents will never be able to prove that BIG OIL is responsible because they have VERY DEEP pockets. Just ask Panola County.