In West Virginia, under the current General Permit, wastes from fracturing a well can be land applied. This waste comes in two forms — unused fracturing chemicals dumped into the pit and fracture flowback discharged from the well into the pit. According to the General Permit unused fracture chemicals cannot be dumped into a pit […]
West Virginia’s Office of Oil and Gas is in the process of revising and updating its 1992 Erosion and Sediment Control Field Manual which covers Best Management Practices (BMPs) for access road and well site construction. The revision is much needed and we hope industry follows it better than it did the old manual. The […]
Risk assessment involves categorizing and one of the side-effects of categorizing is creating clusters or communities — those affected and those not, for instance. Risk assessment, though, goes further and arranges communities within a hierarchical order. This sort of thinking makes sense in a triage situation or an emergency where response has to be quick […]