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Mark:
Remember "this is gonna get ugly"?
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM (AP) – 13 minutes ago
DIMOCK, Pa. — Pennsylvania's top environmental regulator says the state will sue a Houston-based drilling company unless it agrees to pay nearly $12 million to extend a public water line to at least 18 residents whose water wells have been contaminated with methane gas.
John Hanger held a news conference Thursday in the small northeastern Pennsylvania town of Dimock, where tainted water wells are raising concerns about the consequences of gas drilling in the gas-rich Marcellus Shale.
Hanger blamed the methane contamination on faulty natural gas wells drilled by Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. Cabot vigorously denies it is responsible for the pollution. Cabot's CEO issued a scathing public rebuke of Hanger this week, accusing him of "political pandering."
Tensions between Cabot and Dimock residents are escalating. A resident was charged with disorderly conduct last week for an incident with a gun. In response, Cabot has hired armed guards to accompany employees onto residential properties. Hanger pleaded for calm Thursday, saying, "Put the guns away."
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Don
Dude, I suspect that the damage is already well on it's way to being done. And it'll be at it's utmost ugliest once their work here is done.
Whatever. The clarion call did go out. The claxon did sound. The problem being, nobody seemed to hear any of it until it was fashionable.
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