[CitizensTruth] Louisisana: cattle dropping dead, proprietary green fluid spewing into the air

[Mike Kirk]

Chesapeake Energy and Schlumberger may likely sue the cattle farmers for 'stealing' their oozing goo.   Just like Monsanto did to the Canadian farmers who's fields became contaminated with Monsanto's GM seeds.  :-(

Ah, progress....

--- On Thu, 4/30/09, Hal Snyder <hal at drxyzzy.org> wrote:
From: Hal Snyder <hal at drxyzzy.org>
Subject: [CitizensTruth] Louisisana: cattle dropping dead, proprietary green fluid spewing into the air
To: citizenstruth at six.pairlist.net
Date: Thursday, April 30, 2009, 4:26 PM

16 Cattle Drop Dead Near Mysterious Fluid at Gas Drilling Site
April 30, 2009
[bold added]
Sixteen cattle dropped dead in a northwestern Louisiana field this week after apparently drinking from a mysterious fluid adjacent to a natural gas drilling rig, according to Louisiana's Department of Environmental Quality and a report in the Shreveport Times. At least one worker told the newspaper that the fluids, which witnesses described as green and spewing into the air near the drilling derrick, were used for a drilling process called hydraulic fracturing. But the company, Chesapeake Energy, has not identified exactly what chemicals are in those fluids and is insisting to state regulators that no spill occurred.The problem is that both Chesapeake and its contractor doing the work Schlumberger, say that a lot of these fluids are proprietary, said Otis Randle, regional manager for the DEQ. "It can be an obstacle, but we try to be fair to everybody," he said. "We try to remember that the products they use are theirs and they need them to make a
 living."
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