Tag archive for ‘Cabot’
DEP drops waterline plans (0)
12/22/10 •
Cabot agrees to pay $4.1 million to Dimock residents BY LAURA LEGERE Times Shamrock Writer The Department of Environmental Protection has dropped its plans to build a 12.5-mile waterline from Montrose to Dimock Twp. in exchange for Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. agreeing to pay $4.1 million to residents affected by methane contamination attributed to [...]
Settlement draws criticism, praise (0)
12/22/10 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer A settlement reached on Wednesday between the Department of Environmental Protection and a Houston-based gas driller has raised questions among critics about how strongly the state will defend its enforcement actions against an increasingly influential industry even as supporters applauded the agreement as a victory for common sense. The settlement [...]
Some Dimock folks see ‘dirty tricks’ in Cabot document (0)
12/22/10 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer Legal releases delivered Thursday by the gas company deemed responsible for methane contamination in Dimock Twp. water wells have some township residents accusing the driller of using “dirty, dirty tricks” to try to free itself of a lawsuit pending in federal court. Early Thursday morning, attorneys for Cabot Oil and [...]
Judge denies Cabot motion (0)
12/01/10 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer A federal judge has denied a motion by Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. to dismiss a case brought by Dimock Twp. residents who claim their health and property has been harmed by the company’s natural gas drilling activities. Cabot sought to have a judge throw out the case brought by [...]
Cabot sells midstream assets (0)
11/23/10 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. is selling its midstream assets in Susquehanna County to Williams Partners, an Oklahoma-based natural gas transportation company, for $150 million. The deal, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, will include the sale of Cabot’s 75 miles of gathering pipelines [...]
DEP pledges public water (0)
10/06/10 •
State to install $11.8M line, sue Cabot for cost if necessary BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer Pennsylvania’s head environmental regulator committed Thursday to installing an $11.8 million public water line for at least 18 families whose water supplies have been contaminated by methane from natural gas drilling. Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger said [...]
DEP pushes for Montrose water (1)
9/23/10 •
BY LAURA LEGERE Times-Shamrock Writer The state environmental regulatory agency is pushing a natural gas driller it deemed responsible for contaminating residential drinking water to pay to expand a public water line from Montrose to Dimock Twp. Department of Environmental Protection Secretary John Hanger said after a telephone conference with affected Dimock residents on Wednesday [...]