Response to Pa. Gas Well Accident Took 13 Hours Despite State Plan for Quick Action

by Nicholas Kusnetz
ProPublica, April 26, 1:11 p.m.

April 28: This post has been updated.

When Chesapeake Energy lost control of a Marcellus Shale gas well in Pennsylvania on April 19, an emergency response team from Texas was called in to stop the leak. By the time the team arrived more than 13 hours later, brine water and hydraulic fracturing fluids from the well had spewed across nearby fields and into a creek.

Why did a team have to be called in from Texas, as the Scranton Times Tribune has reported? That's what we're trying to figure out.