But there's a new chapter to this story that's worth telling. One of the offending companies, Cabot Oil & Gas, is being called on the carpet for destroying people's water supply - and they're digging in their heels (emphasis mine).
"We have had people here in Pennsylvania without safe drinking water for nearly two years," said John Hanger, head of Pennsylvania's [Department of Environmental Protection]. "That is totally unacceptable. It is reprehensible. We have given Cabot every opportunity to resolve this matter."(Via ProPublica)
But Cabot has pushed back against the agency, taking out a full-page ad this week in several local newspapers and calling plans to construct the water system "unreasonable, unprecedented ... and unfair."
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A group of Dimock residents — among them, a former Cabot employee and several residents whose wells had caught fire — filed a lawsuit last year against the company for the contamination and the health risks it could pose to them.
Cabot mentioned the lawsuit in its ad this week, adding that it "does not believe it caused these conditions and intends to fight these allegations through its scientific findings."
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