(fracking) Driller to Stop Water to Families in Dimock, Pa.

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/11/30/business/AP-US-Gas-Drilling-Dimock.html?_r=2&emc=eta1


Families in a northeastern Pennsylvania village with tainted water wells will have to procure their own water for the first time in nearly three years as a natural-gas driller blamed for polluting the aquifer moves ahead with its plan to stop paying for daily deliveries.

Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. ended delivery of bulk and bottled water to 11 families in Dimock on Wednesday. Cabot asserts Dimock's water is safe to drink and won permission from state environmental regulators last month to stop paying for water for the residents.

A judge on Wednesday declined to issue an emergency order compelling Cabot to continue the deliveries. The judge, who sits on the state's Environmental Hearing Board, set a Dec. 7 deadline for arguments on a second, related petition filed by lawyers for the families.

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State regulators previously determined that Cabot drilled faulty gas wells that allowed methane to escape into Dimock's aquifer. The company denied responsibility, but has been banned from drilling in a 9-square-mile area of Dimock since April 2010.

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fracking should be banned, period.

[limpyhobbler]

1. the head of that drilling company should be be ordered to live in the

Neighborhood and drink the water. The judge could have used that as a test. Let that guy move his family into that neighborhood and drink that poison. It causes cancer. That judge should be impeached. He should have to drink that water too.

[saras]

2. It's not a matter of "safe to drink", it's a matter of "damaged"

If the water is inferior in ANY way whatsoever after the fracking, they should pay indefinitely, or pay to put a proper water purification system in.

[grntuscarora]

3. The fracking companies

are only part of the problem. The industry bought themselves a Governor, who doesn't blow his nose without checking with his handlers first. I remember back when elected officials felt responsible for protecting the safety of Pennsylvanians. Now they just serve to protect the gas industry. :mad: :mad: :mad:

[jtrockville]

4. Why did fracking get an exception from the Clean Water Act?

:shrug:

[grntuscarora]

5. "In 2004,

a much-maligned study conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concluded that fracking posed no risks to water supplies, and was used to convince Congress to exempt the industry from the Safe Drinking Water Act. That study was criticized as flawed due to heavy industry influence on its review panel. An EPA whistleblower later claimed that the study’s findings were “unsupportable,” and alleged that evidence showing that benzene and other toxic chemicals in fracking fluid could migrate into ground water had been suppressed in the final report."

http://www.water-contamination-from-shale.com/