October 18 4:10 am
On October
18 2012 Timothy Puko of Pittsburgh Tribune- Review reported that a Findlay –
based drilling company has been charged an $84,506 federal fine for air
pollution. Fine also included chemical violations, which occurred in Washington
County region. The EPA cited Atlas
Energy for several storage problems in 2008 and 2009. The company failed to respond about the hazardous chemical
storage, improperly stored some of its products and had tanks, which leaked
vapor. Nobody was harmed because of the problems but EPA spokesman Bonnie Smith
said they found the
problems through an investigation that started after a March 31 fire at a pit
at one of the company’s wells. The
company has agreed to pay the fines and also stopped the drilling and
production in Washington County while they review eight facilities for air
pollution and other environmental risks.
A lot of companies are not fully taking the
responsibility towards an eco friendly environment. In my last blog we saw something similar where Shell was not
taking the responsibility of cleaning there own mess. This is a global issue
because this is not a new story. Many big companies are abusing their powers
and destroying the environment.
Some companies agree to pay the damages but some don’t even if they do
pay the damages they will not accept their fault in front of the public. This
is important to our class because we are at the peak of extracting natural
resources from this planet but with that we are destroying the environment and
creating a big problem for the future generations. Fines are good way to prevent the oil companies from
damaging our environment but if company continues to damage the society we
should punish them more strictly. For example this company should have been
fined in 2009 when the repeated the mistake second time. Why wait for the third
time? This is our environment and we have to create every possible effort to
keep it healthy.
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