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WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Pennsylvania officials have fined a New York company more than $15,000 for a spill of drilling fluids at a natural gas well in Pennsylvania.

The Department of Environmental Protection said Monday it had fined Talisman Energy USA of Horseheads, N.Y., $15,506 for the November spill at the Klein gas well in Troy. Officials say the spill of fluids used in the fracturing process polluted a small waterway.

Officials say between 4,200 and 6,300 gallons of the fluid spilled when a pump failed and sand collected in a valve. The fluids ended up in a tributary to Webier Creek, which drains into the Tioga River.

The company cleaned up the spill following protocols set up by the state.

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