Police: Vandals Spilled Brine At Bradford County Drilling Site

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

January 20, 2012 | 11:14 AM

Authorities say a brine spill at a Bradford County drilling site was an act of vandalism.
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Officials from the state police, state Department of Environmental Protection and Talisman Energy are investigating the suspected criminal mischief incident, which released between 8,400 and 21,000 gallons of fracking brine into the containment area on the well pad.
Police described the incident, which happened earlier this week, as “intentional tampering.”
DEP’s Oil and Gas Program was notified Tuesday morning of the spill.
The well pad is off of Ayres Road in Canton Township. It is the site of four producing Marcellus Shale wells.