Work was already underway to deal with a previous spill in that area. On July 2, drilling for the Rover Pipeline project released 5,000 more gallons of drill slurry into a Stark County area where the company was working on a five-foot borehole that would go under the Tuscarawas River.
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The concerted federal and state enforcement actions in Ohio, plus the other disputes, could slow plans for the pipeline to begin operation early next year. Meanwhile, more problems with the project run by Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners have also emerged in Michigan and West Virginia. “Those are pretty big significant changes to this conversation.”įERC also issued another notice of violation on July 13, claiming that Energy Transfer Partners “did not fully and forthrightly disclose all relevant information” before demolishing a historic home. FERC issued a July 12 order that echoes multiple directives from the Ohio EPA’s July 7 order to Energy Transfer Partners.Įnergy Transfer Partners, the Texas-based company that runs the pipeline project, has also now acknowledged Ohio EPA’s regulatory authority, Johncox noted. “The significant thing that is very new here is that Ohio EPA has said that they are working very closely with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,” observed Cheryl Johncox at the Sierra Club.
Ohio’s Rover Pipeline project faces continuing problems, with more spills of drilling mud, ongoing questions about diesel fuel contamination, and orders issued last week by both the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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