Well Pad Suffers New Slip, Chesapeake struggles with suspended site

Well Pad Suffers New Slip, Chesapeake struggles with suspended site by Casey Junkins, December 3, 2012, The Intelligencer
Because of another soil slip at the Ray Baker well pad in southern Marshall County, Chesapeake Energy is still trying to meet West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection requirements to resume operations. Citing an “imminent danger to persons,” the DEP suspended Chesapeake from drilling and fracking at the pad last year. The company hoped environmental regulators would release the site along Valley Run Road from suspension last month after state inspectors evaluated the pad. However, another setback caused by an additional Nov. 1 slip has Chesapeake still working to satisfy the DEP. … The environmental department originally cited Chesapeake for “pollution of the waters of the state” at the Baker site in February 2011. Additional citations for, among other violations, creating an “imminent danger” at the site came in October 2011. The slip also forced a person to relocate because of the danger to his home. … This is the same pad the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers required Chesapeake to repair because of slipping soil and “discharging pollutants into the adjacent stream.”