EID has spent a lot of time talking about Dimock, Pa., over the years, and every time the saga seems to be coming to a close, someone does something to try to keep it in the headlines. Most recently that someone has been Ray Kemble,...
Now that the excitement has died down after news broke last Friday that a federal judge has ordered a retrial in last year’s highly-publicized Dimock nuisance case and thrown out a jury’s multi-million dollar award to plaintiffs, EID has had the opportunity to read through...
A federal judge on Friday threw out a $4.2 million nuisance verdict against Cabot Oil and Gas, confirming what had long been apparent regarding last year’s highly-publicized Dimock case: that there were “substantial and varied weaknesses” and “serious and troubling irregularities in testimony” by the...
This week, the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a part of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), released its findings on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) data from water testing in Dimock, Pennsylvania over a six-month period in 2012. Although...
UPDATE (4/27/2016; 10:15 am ET): E&E News reported today that Cabot Oil & Gas has officially asked a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania to award Cabot a new trial, or set aside the jury’s verdict and issue his...
The Dimock trial continues to get more interesting. This week, federal judge Martin Carlson threw out the plaintiffs’ claim that gas drilling had devalued their property. In fact, evidence produced by the plaintiffs show that their property has actually seen what the judge called a...
Earlier this week Energy In Depth took an extensive look at the historic water quality in Susquehanna County, highlighting the documented cases of methane in local water supplies that date back to the 1700s. The jury for the Dimock alleged water contamination trial also had...
As the trial continues this week on the alleged contamination case in Dimock, Pennsylvania, one key point has been mentioned numerous times: the plaintiffs first complained about water issues in their well prior to any Marcellus Shale development in the area. Energy In Depth mentioned...
Dimock, Pennsylvania, is back in the news this week as a federal trial, involving two families that have claimed Cabot Oil and Gas is responsible for water problems since 2008, gets underway. But as EID has noted on many occasions, the case in Dimock has...
UPDATE (8/6/2013; 11:37am ET): Drip, drip, drip. The more details we discover about this “EPA PowerPoint,” the more puzzling the whole story becomes. The anti-natural gas crowd is of course salivating over what they think it proves about Dimock, but the facts (still) don’t support...
The documentary FrackNation was screened yesterday in Montrose, Pa., as part of a local tour of screenings taking place this week. Director Phelim McAleer, who was present to conduct a question and answer session following the viewing, was met with a standing room only audience...