http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-us-gas-drilling-dimock,0,204083,print.storyElections have consequences. The Rendell administration came down hard on this company for having improper gas wells that contributed to flammable drinking water. Corbett's DEP (run by a coal mining executive) tells residents to drop dead.
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"AP - Pennsylvania environmental regulators said Wednesday they have given permission to a natural-gas driller to stop delivering replacement water to residents whose drinking water wells were tainted with methane.
Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has been delivering water to homes in the northeast village of Dimock since January of 2009. DEP granted Cabot's request. Residents who are suing Cabot in federal court say their water is still tainted with unsafe levels of methane and possibly other contaminants from the drilling process. They say DEP had no right to allow Cabot to stop paying for replacement water.
Bill Ely, 60, said the water coming out of his well looks like milk. "You put your hand down a couple of inches and you can't see your hand, that's how much gas there is in it. And they're telling me it was that way all my life," said Ely, who has lived in the family homestead for nearly 50 years and said his well water was crystal clear until Cabot's arrival three years ago.
If Cabot stops refilling his 550-gallon plastic "water buffalo" that supplies water for bathing and washing clothes, Ely said it will cost him $250 per week to maintain it and another $20,000 to $30,000 to install a permanent system to pipe water from an untainted spring on his land. Regulators previously found that Cabot drilled faulty gas wells that allowed methane to escape into Dimock's aquifer."
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