Boss Who Ordered Employees to Dump Fracking Waste in River Hit With Prison Sentence

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/08/06/boss-who-ordered-employees-dump-fracking-waste-river-hit-prison-sentence



A fracking contractor has been given a 28-month prison sentence for ordering his employees to secretly dump fracking waste into an Ohio waterway.

Boss Who Ordered Employees to Dump Fracking Waste in River Hit With Prison Sentence
Andrea Germanos, staff writer
Wednesday, August 06, 2014
Common Dreams

The owner of a Youngstown, Ohio-based company was sentenced on Tuesday to over two years in prison for ordering his employees to repeatedly dump toxic fracking waste into a local waterway.

Between Nov. 1, 2012 and Jan. 31, 2013, employees of Hardrock Excavating LLC, which provided services to the oil and gas industry including storing fracking waste, made over 30 discharges of fracking waste into a tributary of the Mahoning River. Sixty-four-year old Benedict W. Lupo, then-owner of Hardrock Excavating, directed his employees to dump the waste, which included benzene and toluene, under the cover of night into the waterway.

According to reporting by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "employees tried to talk Lupo out of it, but he refused. [The judge] also pointed out a prosecutor's pictures that detailed six weeks of clean-up in an oil-soaked creek."

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency on-scene coordinator Kurt Kollar was among the witnesses. In his testimony he said, “There was no sign of aquatic life, whatsoever,” in tributary right after the fracking waste discharges, the Youngstown Vindicator reports.

[Demeter]

1. Two years hardly seems equitable

He should be jailed until the cleanup is 100%. No matter how long that takes. And the testing should be done by fanatics.

[Blus4u]

2. To top it off,

He will only serve a portion of that.
They should serve him that with his breakfast instead of bad coffee.

Peace

[A Little Weird]

3. I love it

I have a feeling the environment would be a lot cleaner if that's how we sentenced polluters.

[tech3149]

4. Nice first step in the right direction

The only problem is the results of the crime will last a lot longer than the sentence. I only hope the trend continues.

[PeaceMonger12345]

5. Verified

If you Google the information:
"A fracking contractor has been given a 28-month prison sentence for ordering his employees to secretly dump fracking waste into an Ohio waterway"

http://www.court.us/idar32017460/boss_who_ordered_employees_to_dump_fracking_waste_in_river_hit_with_prison_sentence.htm


Empirically, he is likely to violated the safety standards under the clean water act

State oil and gas agencies may have additional regulations for hydraulic fracturing. In addition, states or EPA have authority under the Clean Water Act to regulate discharge of produced waters from hydraulic fracturing operations.

http://water.epa.gov/type/groundwater/uic/class2/hydraulicfracturing/wells_hydroreg.cfm

[CrispyQ]

6. Good grief. If he'd been black & caught with a joint, he'd gotten a stiffer sentence than 2 years.

Pollute the Commons & get two years.

Two years for each incident would be more just.

[dickthegrouch]

7. His cell should be a 'lobster pot' in the river

he could catch his own food from there and save us money