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Hydraulic Fracturing fire at CHK well burns 10-18 wheelers

April 17, 2011 By TXsharon

Some of those chemicals industry claims we all have under our kitchen sink burned up 10-18 wheeler trucks today at a Chesapeake Energy drill site in Louisiana.

I’m scared of my kitchen sink!


Fire crews extinguish drilling truck fire near Shreveport

“I think they stopped the spread at 10 trucks,” said Scott Wolverton, a Shreveport Fire Department spokesman. “I’m not going to say it’s under control but it’s definitely contained.”

Here’s another link with a great big picture.

I vaguely recall something about another fracking fire at a Chesapeake gas well…

Gas Well Fire During Hydraulic Fracturing Destroys Eight Tractor-Trailer Rigs

And, wasn’t there another one of those really rare fracking accidents in Louisiana involving Chesapeake? Something about a bunch of dead cows?

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Filed Under: Chesapeake Energy, hydraulic fracturing

Comments

  1. Anonymous says

    June 9, 2011 at 10:05 pm

    It was a diesel fire (for the pumps) that spread… It had nothing to do with the chemicals being pumped.

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