Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Gas Firm To Pay Thousands

{Logan, West Virginia}...A Logan County jury ruled Tuesday that Equitable Production Co., a subsidiary of Pittsburgh-based EQT, and subcontractor General Pipeline were reckless when a bulldozer operator desecrated the Crystal Block Cemetery near Sarah Ann in 2004. General Pipeline shoved aside head stones and metal markers while building a road to a drilling site, but it says it was an innocent and unknowing entry. A lawsuit, filed in 2006 accused General Pipeline and Equitable of negligence, nuisance, trespass, desecration of grave sites and deliberate infliction of emotional distress. General Pipeline has been ordered to pay $700,000 in damages.