Idiot Josh Fox and his Gasland BS. Maybe the wells were contaminated, maybe not. It’s possible to determine it through chemical and isotopic analysis. If so then the company owes it to the homeowners to bring in a safe water supply. I find it hard to believe that that costs over 4 million. Hell, buy them out at double the property value.
I grew up north of Scranton, I remember 50 years ago, farmer friends in school would tell how they could set the water pickets on fire, well water has gas in it. There were gas pockets all over the country side. Long before they started drilling for it.
More here:
The Elys and Huberts were among a group of more than 40 Dimock residents who sued Cabot in 2009, claiming that the Houston gas producer’s rush to drill the Marcellus Shale had polluted their water wells.
All but the Elys and Huberts settled in 2012 after tests showed the wells contained elevated levels of methane but none of the chemicals associated with gas drilling.
The Elys and Huberts were among a group of more than 40 Dimock residents who sued Cabot in 2009, claiming that the Houston gas producer’s rush to drill the Marcellus Shale had polluted their water wells.
All but the Elys and Huberts settled in 2012 after tests showed the wells contained elevated levels of methane but none of the chemicals associated with gas drilling
Dimock was the focus of the Oscar-nominated documentary Gasland, lengthy investigations by federal and state environmental agencies, and protests by anti-drilling activists after residents complained of water contamination when Cabot ramped up drilling in 2008.