Man Charged with Dumping 800 Gallons of Drilling Fluid | News

State police arrested a man who worked at a Marcellus shale drilling site in Bradford County for dumping 800 gallons of dangerous materials.

Troopers said Josh Foster, 27, from Georgia admits he dumped the chemicals on state game lands in Warren Township.

State police said Foster worked for Talisman Energy at one of its drill sites near the dump location on Regan Hill Road.  Troopers said Talisman was cooperating completely with the investigation.

In arrest papers it said a drilling superintendant from Talisman met a state trooper at the scene of the spill.  He told the trooper that someone intentionally dumped the substance used in drilling and said that substance is dangerous.  It looked like an area of black sludge on the ground.  That superintendent estimated about 800 gallons were spilled.

An internal investigation by Talisman led them to Foster.  A passenger in a truck with him said he told Foster not to dump the chemicals because it wasn't right, but Foster did it anyway.

The arrest papers said in an interview with state police, Foster admitted to the crime.

He is charged with "scattering rubbish."  He is locked up in Bradford County on $100,000 bail.