Dec 27- Howard Drilling Inc spills residual waste at a site in the Allegheny National Forest.
Dec 23- James Burgess, 60, dies after a truck owned by a Texas oil and gas company struck him in Washington County, PA. The driver and the passenger were drunk and fled the scene on foot leaving the pedestrian to die. [video]
Dec 21- A lightning strike is suspected of triggering a fire at a gas well in Somervell County, TX.
Dec 20- BP and Chevron are accused of dumping toxic radioactive waste into the swamps of Louisiana.
Dec 19- A Washington County, PA Judge orders Red Oak Water Transfer to produce all photographs of an alleged fracking wastewater spill.
Dec 16- On its way to a drilling sight, a truck spills hexamine on U.S. 35 in WV closing all four lanes of the road.
Dec 11-A line froze on Cabot Oil and Gas site in Susquehanna County, PA causing a spill. It was never reported to the DEP by Cabot.
Dec 9-Wastewater spills on a RE Gas Development (Rex Energy) pad in Jackson Twp, Butler County, PA.
Dec 6-Internal emails and documents expose a leak of 21,000 gallons of flowback water from Marcellus Shale drilling operations in Washington County, and the subsequent “cover up,” according to a motion filed in Washington County Common Pleas Court on December 6, 3013. The well was operated by Range Resources.
Dec 6-A natural gas storage tank exploded in Texas. [video]
Dec 5-After an accident, workers on the Millennium pipeline in the Sothern Tier of New York vent millions of gallons of gas from a 10-mile-long stretch of 30-inch pipeline into the atmosphere forcing a local family to evacuate their home.