Halliburton fined $1.8M over disposal(Pennsylvania)!

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Halliburton had long asserted that it was exempt from provisions of the state's Solid Waste Management Act because of a federal exemption for oil and gas companies that handle less then 220 pounds of waste per month, Mr. Poister said.

A solid waste inspector who tagged along on an evaluation of the Homer City facility with a clean water inspector in 2010 raised questions about the volume of waste being processed there. In 2011, that hunch led the DEP to investigate and eventually the agency determined that Halliburton was, in fact, a large-quantity facility, meaning it was processing 2,220 pounds of waste monthly, or 10 times the limit of exempt facilities.

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1. good. One of these days they'll have a record bad enough to deny them contracts with the US Gov't nt

[enough]

2. That's 1.8 million over a 12-year period, meaningless to Halliburton.

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Over a period of 12 years, Halliburton didn't keep records of how much acid it moved, making it difficult to account for all potential infractions, but the DEP counted 255 violations between 1999 and 2011.

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