www.wnep.com/wnep-susq-epa-responds-to-cabot-oil-20120127,0,6032822.story January 27, 2012 There is now a response to a response. Two days ago Cabot Oil and Gas criticized the federal government’s deliveries of fresh water and its testing of several wells in Susquehanna County. Now the EPA responds to Cabot. One week ago the Environmental Protection Agency started delivering the water to a… Read more
citizensvoice.com/news/epa-serves-public-interest-1.1261500#axzz1kIQ5EBAW Published: January 24, 2012 The Corbett administration’s recent characterization of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as naive interlopers evaporated like so much gas last week. Federal investigators began testing water supplies for 61 homes in Dimock Township, Susquehanna County, and delivering clean water to four homes where independent testing has found health threats in… Read more
www.timesleader.com/news/Dimock-Township-residents-plan-rally-press-conference.html Jan. 11, 2012 Residents of Dimock Township, Susquehanna County, and members of two advocacy groups have scheduled a rally and press conference in Philadelphia in an effort to gain U.S. Environmental Protection Agency action on what they contend is drinking water contamination caused by natural gas drilling. Two activists groups – Protecting Our Waters… Read more
www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-10/pennsylvania-fracking-foes-fault-epa-over-tainted-water-response.html By Jim Snyder and Mark Drajem January 10, 2012 When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency called to say it would start delivering fresh water to their home, Ron and Jean Carter thought they gained an ally in a long fight with Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. A retreat by the federal government within two… Read more
citizensvoice.com/news/dep-cabot-drilling-caused-methane-in-lenox-water-wells-1.1255042#axzz1iyajDcbK By Laura Legere (Staff Writer) Published: January 9, 2012 Methane in three private water wells in Lenox Township seeped there from a flawed natural gas well drilled by Cabot Oil and Gas Corp., state environmental regulators have found. An investigation by the Department of Environmental Protection determined that the gas migrated from at least… Read more
thetimes-tribune.com/news/dimock-residents-epa-to-deliver-water-1.1254586#axzz1imYLPHPX By Laura Legere (Staff Writer) Published: January 7, 2012 Federal environmental regulators took steps Friday to deliver drinking water to several Dimock Twp. homes where tainted well water has been tied to nearby gas drilling, according to three families who spoke with EPA officials. The families, each of which received a phone call from… Read more
citizensvoice.com/dimock-officials-reject-water-delivery-offer-1.1241307#axzz1frMxDI58 BY LAURA LEGERE, STAFF WRITER Published: December 6, 2011 DIMOCK TWP. – Township supervisors unanimously declined an aid offer by the mayor of Binghamton, N.Y., on Monday night that would have allowed the city to provide a tanker of fresh water to Dimock residents with tainted wells whose replacement water deliveries were stopped last… Read more
citizensvoice.com/news/drilling/dimock-supervisors-to-meet-tonight-on-water-delivery-offer-1.1240848#axzz1frMxDI58 By Laura Legere, Staff Writer Published: December 5, 2011 Dimock Township supervisors will consider tonight whether to accept a tanker of fresh water offered by the mayor of Binghamton, N.Y., to township residents whose water deliveries were stopped last week by the natural gas driller blamed for tainting their wells. The Dimock officials postponed… Read more
thetimes-tribune.com/news/gas-drilling/lawyer-dimock-water-unsafe-deliveries-should-go-on-1.1227996#axzz1cqCyvXh1 By Laura Legere (Staff Writer) Published: November 5, 2011 Attorneys for Dimock Twp. families suing a natural gas driller over contamination claims are asking the state’s chief oil and gas regulator to reverse his decision allowing fresh water deliveries to the families to end. Tate Kunkle, a lawyer representing the 11 families in a… Read more
