Tag archive for ‘Dimock’
‘Gasland’ gets Oscar nomination (0)
1/26/11 •
BY STACI WILSON The documentary “Gasland,” directed by Josh Fox, received an Academy Award nomination Tuesday morning. The film – which deals with natural gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing impacts – is one of five nominees in the Best Documentary (Feature) category. Dimock Township residents, whose drinking water was affected by nearby drilling, are featured [...]
Water pipeline info request costs boro (0)
1/26/11 •
BY STACI WILSON Montrose borough will have to pay over $2,700 if it wants to receive the documents council requested from the Department of Environmental Protection in December. Prompted by concerns over the borough’s water supply council requested the documents before DEP scrapped its plan to have a water pipeline run from Montrose to about [...]
Dimock Township reorganizes (0)
1/05/11 •
BY PAT FARNELLI Dimock Township Supervisors held their annual reorganization meeting Monday, and everything remained the same. George E. Baker, Edwin S. Bunnell, and Gerald Ellis are the township supervisors, and Paul Jennings is the secretary. Sam Lewis is the township’s solicitor, and the COG handles permits. The roadmaster position is shared among the three [...]
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 [...]
Boro to sue over pipeline (0)
12/08/10 •
BY STACI WILSON The borough council of Montrose has voiced its collective opposition to the extension of a water pipeline to Dimock in recent months. But at the Dec. 6 meeting, council opted to take an official step against it. Following an executive session, the council passed a resolution to have borough solicitor Marion O’Malley [...]
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 [...]
’60 Minutes’ takes aim at shale (0)
11/17/10 •
BY ROBERT L. BAKER A few Dimock Township residents got in the national spotlight on CBS’s “60 Minutes” news program Sunday night, and watched it feeling the public could still be better informed. Television journalist Lesley Stahl examined the pros and cons of America’s shale gas boom in a 15-minute segment of the Emmy Award-winning [...]
Penn Vest approves pipeline (0)
11/10/10 •
BY ROBERT SWIFT Times-Shamrock Writer The Pennvest board voted 10-2 today to approve public financing for a $11.8 million, 12.5-mile water line to serve residents of Dimock Twp. lacking safe water supplies. The financing will provide a state grant of $11.6 million and $172,000 loan to build a pipeline from Lake Montrose to an area [...]