Dakota pipeline company spills lubricant into Ohio wetlands
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has ordered a Texas-based company to stop new drilling on a $4.2 billion project, after one of its pipelines spilled millions of gallons of a lubricant into a half a million square feet of Ohio wetlands.
News sources say the FERC action against Rover Pipeline – the company behind the controversial Dakota Access project -- comes on the heels of $431,000 in fines issued last week by the Ohio EPA for multiple water and air pollution violations that occurred across the state.