Drilling company agrees to pay $93K in Pa. pollution claim

CLEARFIELD, Pa. (AP) — A Marcellus drilling company has agreed to pay $93,710 to settle claims by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission that it polluted a high quality trout stream in west-central Pennsylvania.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says Houston-based EOG Resources, Inc., will also pay $65,000 toward a yet-to-be-determined environmental project in the watershed of the Little Laurel Run creek in Clearfield County near Parker Dam State Park.

The settlement is the fourth involving the company and the fish commission this year, and the second involving alleged pollution of the Little Laurel Run stream. EOG has paid more than $302,000 to settle those allegations.

The other two settlements included pollution of Alex Branch and an aquifer that feeds a spring at the Sykesville Hunting Camp nearby.