“PITTSBURGH (AP) — July 25, 2012 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that it has completed tests on drinking water in the northeastern Pennsylvania village of Dimock and has determined it is safe to drink, despite the claims of some residents who say it has been polluted by gas drilling.”
The most vocal Dimock husband and wife team, who were one of 15 families suing Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation; who claimed that their well water was contaminated by hydrofracturing; who claimed ill effects from methane and strange chemicals in their water; who disconnected their free water treatment system 2 years ago and refused to use their well water anymore, yet carried the same jug of dirty water from town to town to tell their tale of woe; who became anti-gas activists; and most importantly to us - who trashed the name of Dimock in the media - have privately settled their lawsuit with Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation and disappeared from the internet and the media. What happened to them? They sold their house in Dimock and moved to Tioga County, New York. They bought a house that is fueled by “natural gas.” How ironic. They purchased the house with 36+ acres, along with a gas lease that transferred to them at the time of sale. (The gas lease is held by Talisman Energy U.S.A. Corp.)
Now ask yourself: If you lived in Dimock; and your claims of contaminated water due to natural gas drilling were true, and if your claims of adverse health issues were true; and if you truly became an anti-gas activist, would you ever have turned around and bought property with a gas lease???
Bottom line - how much of what was put out in the media was actually true?
