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Pennsylvania lifts ban on gas production in polluted Dimock
“We got played,” said Ray Kemble, the most outspoken of a small group of Dimock residents who have battled the drilling company and state regulators alike.
‘Gasland’ driller will pay millions for new water system in Dimock
The no-contest plea to multiple criminal charges marks the first time Cabot Oil and Gas has taken responsibility for destroying drinking water supplies.
Plea hearing scheduled in ‘Gasland’ drilling pollution case in Dimock
Dimock drew national notoriety after people were filmed lighting their tap water on fire in the Emmy Award-winning 2010 documentary.
Dimock residents, prosecutors and a utility met to discuss contaminated drinking water
Residents of a rural community whose drinking water has been contaminated for 14 years have met with high-level officials in the Pennsylvania attorney general’s office.
Planned treatment plant called a new threat to Dimock’s water
A state court on Tuesday denied an application to temporarily block a permit for construction of a wastewater plant in the town of Dimock,
Criminal charges filed against Pennsylvania gas driller head to court
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. was charged in 2020 with violating state environmental laws after a grand jury investigation found the Houston-based driller failed to fix faulty gas wells that had been leaking methane into aquifers in Dimock and surrounding communities for more than a decade.
Dimock residents worry about planned fracking waste well
Plans for the deep injection well are in the early stages, but residents weary of water contamination are on edge.