No fracking joke

WFAA.com reports on the fracking blowout in Arlington and the “unacceptable behavior” by the company who should be responsible for it.

Arlington officials report on fracking fluid blowout

Voter/buyer/citizen beware.

And if you ever want to know what goes on “behind the walls” at a drill site, see the video too.Two months ago, 100 homes in Arlington had to be evacuated as fracking fluid spilled out of a drilling site onto the city streets.

….42,800 gallons of fracking fluid — boiling up from thousands of feet underground — spewed into the streets and into Arlington storm sewers and streams.

According to the report, Vantage Energy first contacted 911 nearly two hours after fracking water first started to spill. What's more, the call to 911 came not from the site, but from corporate headquarters in Pennsylvania.

"This is unacceptable behavior," said City Council member Robert Rivera. "The citizens of Arlington do not appreciate the lack of ability to control the site."

…But this was not included in the city's report: Records uncovered by News 8 of another 1,500-gallon spill at the same site one month earlier.