These results on the two new water wells drilled into the aquifer contaminated by Cabot (Coterra) at Dimock are as I expected they would be. And I bet Josh Shapiro and PA DEP knew damned well also these would be the results (included below).
You cannot drill water wells into an industrially contaminated aquifer and expect clean safe water. FFS. Especially not in contaminated aquifers on land purchased from the guilty company after it contaminated that property too. What a fucking corrupt shit show.
“Certain naturally occurring substances” my ass.
Typical cruel dishonesty by Pennsylvania American Water Company, which the frac-harmed in Canada got/get too.
My ex lead lawyer, Murray Klippenstein, demanded at the start of him and Cory Wanless (fresh out of school) working on my lawsuit that I hire a company to drill a new water well into the contaminated Rosebud aquifers which Encana/Ovintiv had intentionally illegally repeatedly frac’d. (Rosebud well water has 10 times the amount of methane as Dimock.)
I was shocked. I refused and told Murray it would be a waste of my money ($20,000 to $30,000) because the new well would source the same contaminated frac’d water! And that I needed to put all my savings into his legal fees, not waste it on nothing, and that it would life threatening to drill into heavily gas-contaminated aquifers. Duh. He didn’t push it after that.
Many years later, after Murray betrayed me and my case, I now think he too, like Shapiro and DEP, knew damned well one cannot get safe and clean water from drilling a new well into frac’d contaminated aquifers, and that he had been trying to “legal advice” (trick) me into wasting my savings and putting lives at risk on my land. Douche Fucker Shit Lawyer.
Louis Meeks (photo below), of Pavillion Wy, with well water also contaminated by Encana/Ovintiv’s aquifer frac’ing, experienced directly how dangerous when he tried to drill a new water well into a dangerously methane contaminated aquifer.
There are no words for the frac’ harmed in Dimock, or for all the other endless frac harmed citizens, betrayed by oil and gas companies like Encana/Ovintiv and Coterra, and then, betrayed and abused again and again and again by regulators, lawyers and courts.
At least the residents of the Hamlet of Rosebud got safe water via pipeline (100km away from Calgary) and no longer live in risk of explosion in their homes and businesses. I believe this result was largely because of my frac lawsuit and speaking tours. No one said thanks.
I live just outside the hamlet, so did not get safe water in the normal evil punishing nature of humanity.
A bit of background (more below in “Refer also to”):
Just in from Craig Stevens in northeast Pennsylvania.
As the long running Dimock water contamination story continues to unravel, Craig was kind enough to provide me with this summary to share with all of you:
From: Craig L Stevens
Silver Lake Township
Susquehanna County, Pa.
Monday, Oct 20, 2025
Hello Bob,
This story in Dimock is getting more and more ridiculous as the years pass by, this [see email message below] was sent from the group Medusa who has tested the water in Dimock at least 4 times now, including July of 2021.
The Dimock area known as the 9 square mile affected area since November 4th 2009 started on September 11th 2008 when 33 private water wells were impacted in one day and the PA DEP was contacted and they took 14 months to make a determination while the law requires 45 days ???
The DEP Secretary John Hanger was able to get funding from Penn Vest in 2010 for $11.7 million dollars to build a water Line from PAWC Lake Montrose Water System to Dimock but due to politics that was dropped and the citizens suffered for 12 more years with severely contaminated water.
This is an has been a Direct Violation of Article 1 Section 27 of the PA Constitution, The Right to Clean Air, Water and Environment until Attorney General Shapiro, after meeting with Gas Drilling Affected Residents on May 4th 2017 with 17 witnesses, which started the largest Investigation Into Environmental Crimes in PA and filed 9 felonies and 6 Misdemeanors against Cabot Oil & Gas – now Coterra – in June of 2020, which was a first time in the USA that an AG charged a drilling company.
The PA AG then told the residents in July of 2021 they were having Medusa Analytical come to Dimock and do the most comprehensive testing ever done to 27 homes at a cost of $250,000 or more which was odd since the charges had already been filed and this seemed strange but we were told that it would help with the case against Cabot / Coterra adding more evidence to the already Direct Evidence they had found.
The testing was completed and results were available by September of 2021 but the PA AG Shapiro then waited until December 2021 to meet with the tested residents to go over the individual results, but much to our surprise they only provided Spreadsheets not the Lab Test Results, and Rebecca Franz and Justice Brambley for PA AG started pressuring the families to accept a Filter System instead of a Pipeline and they had the audacity to bring Cabot attorneys with them without notifying the families to help convince them.
When Franz and Brambley were asked if they would live in the house for a month and use the water for cooking, drinking, bathing and laundering they refused, maybe they knew that PA DEP had ruled out the use of Filtration Systems as an alternative to a Pipeline in a Consent Order Agreement in July of 2010 !
On November 29th 2022 PA AG Shapiro prosecuted Cabot / Coterra in Susquehanna County Court and after presenting evidence and having Impacted residents Ray Kemble and Scott Ely testify, they dropped all misdemeanors and 8 of the felonies and reduced 1 felony to a misdemeanor so the company could continue drilling and without letting the victims at the same time the DEP signed to let Coterra drill again.
The victims are still waiting for clean water and are only getting 1 gallon, 2-1/2 gallon and 5 gallon bottles dropped off but no bulk water deliveries to shower, bathe and launder with that Coterra is still delivering to many unknown families in the area, even some across the street from the homes waiting for the $16.3 million dollar water line that is not required to be completed until December 31st of 2027or 5 years later !
We the People are again demanding that the PA AG’s office release the test results that Rebecca Franz has been hiding from us for 3-1/2 years now as they would be considered pre-drill testing and has been FOIA’d multiple times but the PA AG office says the documents are being used in a Criminal Case which ended 3 Years ago and now we have 13 families in Acre Lake whose Water was contaminated from over 6 thousand feet away.
The PAWC bought a property that Cabot had purchased in 2018 due to contaminating it from gas drilling and guess where PAWC decided to drill the water wells and build the Water Treatment Plant for Dimock ?
Of course they bought the contaminated property from Cabot / Coterra which is a Direct Conflict of Interest and as mentioned below would be a very difficult area to get clean water to provide to those already harmed ?
As you can read below, the company that did the testing, company who did the 27 tests in 2021 are questioning the ability to even clean the water, Why is PAWC telling the Citizens they can provide clean water even though the Public Water System has not even been built yet and may not be for 2 more years if ever, the Commonwealth signed the drill permits so they are responsible for getting these people Clean Water Now With No Excuses !
Maybe we should have told Cabot / Coterra that as soon as the Safe & Clean Water is provided to the victims then Cabot / Coterra can begin drilling which they have already been doing for almost 3 years already, and now Coterra has been found to have poisoned the Acre Lake area from 3 years ago, and still no clean water for those families either, along with the Greene County community of Freeport, PA declaring a water contamination emergency !
We need elected officials To demand that DEP start doing their jobs and stop protecting the Oil & Gas Drillers !
Craig L Stevens
Patriots from the Oil & Gas Shales
Impacted Resident from Pipeline Installation
6th Generation Landowner
Silver Lake Township
Susquehanna County, Pa.
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Date: October 18, 2025
Zacariah Hildenbrand <email hidden; JavaScript is required>
Subject: Re: Dimock Water Quality Testing
Good Morning Ray,
These are surprising results indeed and they certainly warrant further investigation. Even through the scant amount of information that is provided you can immediately tell that these waters are contaminated with thermogenic gas, which necessitates additional isotopic analysis to determine where it is coming from. Additionally the detection of BTEX constituents, MBAS, and NORM is concerning. Lastly, the EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act is inadequate in covering all the potential contaminants that we see in today‘s world. This is to say that even if they were to treat this water to a state of SDWA compliance, which warrants an explanation of the treatment modalities that will be applied here, there needs to be more comprehensive testing for a wide suite of VOCs, SVOCs, and PFAS that could be in the water. I would also recommend that whole effluent toxicity (WET) testing be applied to this water to provide some biological context to the relative safety of this water (once it is treated).
Do you have an idea as to when you will get the results of the treated water? Clearly, I have major concerns about using this as a feedstock for a treatment process that will then serve as a drinking water source. To be completely honest, this water in its current state, is actually worse than some of the treated produced water I am seeing out of the Permian Basin here in Texas after it goes through pre-treatment (oxidation and advanced filtration), desalination, and post-treatment (zeolite and activated carbon).
I appreciate you sharing these data and please let me know how I can help you further,
ZLH
Medusa Analytical
Zacariah Hildenbrand, Ph.D.
Partner, Medusa Analytical
M: 915-694-7132
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From: Pennsylvania American Water
Date: October 17, 2025 at 8:08:15 PM EDT
Subject: Dimock Water Quality Testing
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Refer also to:
2023: More than two decades after Encana/Ovintiv’s illegal frac’s into my community’s drinking water aquifers, I’m still living without safe water. The Rosebud Hamlet received safe alternate water pipeline from many miles away. I live a few hundred metres outside the hamlet and did not get safe water (I could contract in pipelined water in myself, but that would cost tens of thousands of dollars); humans in power always punish those that stand up for community, truth and doing what’s right):
I am worn out frac’d senior, living alone. Hauling water is annoying, exhausting, expensive and nearly impossible to do in Alberta winters.
ingamarie: They should be against the law, and cancelled retroactively….they also impact a lot of rural people who had to sign non disclosures in order to get any recompense for damage done to land by oil and gas…..they are excellent ways of silencing potential whistle blowers and making sure that the public doesn’t know what’s actually going on in the back country, and their water and food sheds.
Going forward, polluters must not only pay, they must be prevented from using the law to cover their tracks.
… “Really the use of NDAs in this way is causing harm.”
Khor said non-disclosure agreements were originally used by employers to protect trade secrets and intellectual property. But over her decades of legal work, she says they’ve become used to stop employees from talking about “almost anything,” especially situations involving whistleblowing or sexual harassment. …
Today, the tide is turning against NDAs. Multiple U.S. states have passed or are considering laws limiting the use of such agreements. Ireland is set to pass its own. Prince Edward Island became the first Canadian province to pass a bill such a bill in 2021. It came into force last year.
Part of that change was sparked by the Can’t Buy My Silence campaign, a grassroots movement begun in September 2021 by emerita law professor Julie Macfarlane and Zelda Perkins, a former assistant to Harvey Weinstein. But Macfarlane says even she was shocked by how fast change has come. …
The bill introduced by Green leader Sonia Furstenau — which Macfarlane calls the “model” for Canadian provinces — would make it illegal to sign an NDA relating to sexual harassment or discrimination unless it is the express wish of the person harmed.
And if an NDA is signed, it says the agreement must be for a set and limited duration, and must have options for the harmed person to waive their own confidentiality.
It also explicitly states there must be exceptions to any confidentiality clause that allows a person to speak to a therapist, an Elder and specified friends and family, among others. …
Dalya Israel, the executive director of the Wavaw Rape Crisis Centre in Vancouver, says the organization has noticed an uptick in survivors who are limited in what they can discuss because of NDAs.
“We have a couple of survivors that access the crisis line a lot, because they are so unsure about how they can talk about their assault,” Israel said.
She believes such agreements are detrimental not just for survivors, but also for perpetrators and organizations, since they conceal wrongdoing instead of creating an opportunity for accountability.
“They create fear around people choosing to report or seek accountability and create that larger freeze around the desire to seek out and engage people in talking about what’s happened to them,” Israel said.
MacRae has bittersweet feelings about the bill being introduced in B.C. On one hand, it’s something she and her mother have wanted for years. On the other, the law would only apply to new agreements and wouldn’t affect her own NDA or those already signed by other survivors. MacRae said she has written to lawmakers for years seeking change, and has long felt ignored. …
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Some of Dimock’s Cabot (Coterra) History:
2021 11 10: Accused lawyers claim court bias by Reggie Sheffield, Nov 10, 2021, Susquehanna County Independent
Creepy: Judge Legg accused of bias
2013 09 07: Cabot Oil Demolishes Sautners past home in Dimock, PA
2013 02 13: DEP opens investigation of methane in Dimock water well, Cabot providing safe water
2012 01 09: DEP: Cabot drilling caused methane in Lenox water wells
2011 05 17: DEP cites persistent flaws in Cabot wells and keeps drilling on hold in parts of Dimock
2010 11 18: Dimock residents see “dirty tricks” in Cabot document
2009 11 24: Poisoning Dimock, Lawsuit Challenges Cabot Oil’s Drilling Practices
… The series of infractions on the part of Cabot Oil and Gas, a Houston based energy company that has large holdings in Dimock, resulted in a $120,000 fine from Pennsylvania’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) earlier this month. But the cost to residents has been far greater.
On Friday of last week 15 families in Dimock announced that they were suing Cabot for poisoning their water and the likelihood that exposure to toxic chemicals has led to personal injury, including neurological and gastro-intestinal complications. Among the plaintiffs is a Cabot employee and Dimock resident who has knowledge of company practices and violations that have not yet been reported. According to Leslie Lewis, an attorney with one of the firms representing the families,the charges against Cabot are far reaching and reveal a profound degree of negligence and fraudulent conduct. “To me they just seem like a rogue operation,” she says. “Anything goes.” …
End Dimock’s Cabot (Coterra) Frac History
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2021: It’s a frac-crime enabling racket: Pennsylvania Supreme Court gives gas industry big victory, Rules in favour of frac royalty cheaters (Anadarko, Chesapeake), Kills Attorney General’s anti-trust lawsuit. Jackie Root: “It just seems like ruling after ruling is coming down in favor of the oil and gas companies, handing them all the cards and all the money.”
2013 09: AER’s outside counsel, Glenn Solomon is recorded giving legal advice to another frac harmed family in Alberta. He details how the oil and gas industry gets to contaminate aquifers again “down the street” by gagging its victims:
2013: Shortly after Ernst publicly released her paper below, AER slammed the door shut on frac-harmed ranchers Ronalie and Shawn Campbell near Ponoka, Alberta after “investigating” their contaminated life-threatening drinking water for years and endless reports.
This was their drinking water on one of the testing days, contaminated with sour gas, and methane, ethane, propane, butante, pentane, with istopic fingerprints matching Encana/Ovintiv’s:
2013: The Science Is Deafening, Industry’s Gas Migration: Brief Review of Threats to Canada’s Groundwater from the Oil and Gas Industry’s Methane Migration and Hydraulic Fracturing A Public Interest Project by Ernst Environmental Services
2013:
2012: But, the “gift” came with permanent evil scaring: Cenovus, previously Encana, donates $250,000 to the Drumheller Library (near Rosebud) in exchange for naming rights on the Children’s Corner, Youth Area and Community Programs Room
2011: Fracking Contamination ‘Will Get Worse’: Alberta Expert Dr. Karlis Muehlenbachs
2010: Shortly after buying Rosebud’s silence, greedy law violating Encana/Ovintiv killed their promised money, blaming the economy while continuing to make records profits.
2006: My water after Encana/Ovintiv illegally repeatedly frac’d my community’s drinking water aquifers:
Photo by Colin Smith
2006: Just another frac lie:
2006: Bruce Jack Private water well explosion at Spirit River, Alberta
Bruce Jack’s water after installing Alberta’s water regulator’s advised “treatment” system to make his contaminated water safe:
This is the risk of the water “treatment” Judge Legg ordered Coterra to use against the harmed in Dimock
2004: Encana illegally frac’s directly into Rosebud’s drinking water aquifers, in secret.
2001: Encana/Ovintiv starts risky super shallow gas frac’ing at Rosebud, Alberta.
I bought my home and land at Rosebud to live out the rest of my days in quiet, privacy, and beauty.
I got frac’d three years after I bought the place and have lived in invasive frac hell ever since with:
- endless hoards of angry cowardly Alberta men “dropping” in trying to bully me silent after Encana/Ovintiv violated my privacy rights doxxing my home location on a detailed map, with my name printed in full and handing out hundreds of copies at public meetings put on by the company;
- hauling alternate water and maintaining the tanks (physically gruelling for one senior to do);
- rows upon rows of noisy law-violating compressors that continue to violate my legal right to quiet enjoyment of my home and land;
- lying betraying judges and lawyers pissing on the rule of law, drinking water, the public interest, and me and my case, notably my quitting backstabbing lying lawyers Cory Wanless and Murray Klippenstein;
- vanishing song birds and escalating weed problems (frac’ers not only comtaminate drinking water, they do not mitigate the weed problems on their leases and miles of access roads, dramatically increasing my work load to mitigate weeds on my land;
- polluted night sky from the endless compressors and associated facilities;
- helping other communites because frac’ers and their enabling “regulators” and politicians lie to enable the frac invasions and incessant harms;
- etc. etc. etc.
It does not matter where they frac, the lies and harms never change.