Say It Ain't So Already

The EPA Rules in Favor of Cabot Oil & Gas, Tells Citizens of Dimock, PA to Die Already

October 19, 2011 at 7:51 PM Leave a comment

This is outrageous.  More power to the Occupy Wall Street movement.  We need change around here!

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (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.

Residents expressed outrage and threatened to take the matter to court.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has been delivering water to homes in the northeast village of Dimock since January of 2009. The Houston-based energy company asked the Department of Environmental Protection for approval to stop the water deliveries by the end of November, saying Dimock’s water is safe to drink.

DEP granted Cabot’s request late Tuesday, notifying the company in a letter released Wednesday morning. Scott Perry, the agency’s acting deputy secretary for oil and gas management, wrote that since Cabot has satisfied the terms of a December settlement agreement requiring the company to remove methane from the residents’ water, DEP “therefore grants Cabot’s request to discontinue providing temporary potable water.”

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.

I read something earlier today that someone wrote — apologies for not remembering who or where I saw it — about how the American people (and the people of the world, for that matter) are just flat out emotionally exhausted due to the corporate takeover of the planet.  This a prime example.  Crap like this is happening everywhere.

Enough.  Just fucking ENOUGH!

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