A US fracking company which has a contract to supply Ineo’s petrochemical plant at Grangemouth with ethane has reportedly been fined in the past for polluting the environment.
The Pennsylvania’s environmental department fined Texas-headquartered Range Resources $4.15million for polluting soil and groundwater in 2014, according to the StateImpact website.
And in 2011, Range Resources agreed a $750,000 settlement with a Washington County family, which accused oil and gas companies of destroying their 10-acre farm in Pennsylvania, the Guardian reported. The settlement included a gagging order for the family’s two young children, the report said.
A spokesman for Range Resources was quoted as saying in a media report that the company was “fully committed to being good stewards of the environment” while doing the same in the communities where the firm works.
An Ineos spokesman said Range Resources was just one of several US companies which would supply Grangemouth with ethane, the report said.
Friends of the Earth Scotland today reiterated calls to ban fracking in Scotland as the first US ethane shipment nears Grangemouth.
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