Category Archives: Louisiana

In Louisiana, Chesapeake Energy Corp. and its contractor Schlumberger Technology Corp., were fined $22,000 for violating state law in connection with the April 2009 deaths of 17 cows. The cows apparently drank fracking fluid that had discharged from a natural …

Last year, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) wrote about the deaths of 17 cows in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. The cows allegedly died after consuming fluid that spilled from a natural gas wellpad, said the NRDC.