Dimock Water Pipeline Update; I thought the anti-water MAGAts and Coterra (prev. Cabot) would kill it, like they did years ago. Will it be completed? The frac-harmed have been without safe water since 2008 (I’ve been without it since 2006). Their constitution guarantees safe water, ours does not.

2009: Poisoning Dimock, Lawsuit Challenges Cabot Oil’s Drilling Practices in the Marcellus Shale

2010: Private lab finds toxic chemicals in Dimock water

2010: Natural gas debate: Proposed water pipeline pits neighbor against neighbor in Dimock

2010: Dimock residents see “dirty tricks” in Cabot document

2011: DEP: Cabot OK to stop Dimock water deliveries

2013: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says It’s Unconstitutional For Gas Companies To Frack Wherever They Want; Act 13, Gas Industry Takeover Law thrown out by State’s Highest Court

“By any responsible account,” Chief Justice Castille wrote, “the exploitation of the Marcellus Shale Formation will produce a detrimental effect on the environment, on the people, their children, and the future generations, and potentially on the public purse, perhaps rivaling the environmental effects of coal extraction.”

2020: Condolences from Alberta to PA. Erica Tarr: “I can’t bathe my daughter, wash my hands or do a load of laundry, it’s like living in constant crisis. Living without water for so long is a nightmare. It’s like we’ve been thrown to the wolves…. We can’t keep living like this.” Rosemary Fuller: “I feel so unsure about the present and the future that I just want rid of my home.”

2020: Cabot Oil and Gas gets frac’d! Pennsylvania AG Shapiro files 15 criminal charges, including 9 felonies, against Cabot for failing to fix gas wells that leaked methane over 9 square miles into 18 Dimock residential water supplies. “The Grand Jury presentments prove that Cabot took shortcuts that broke the law, and damaged our environment — harming our water supply and public health,”

2021: Legal Shit Show on Crack Continues: Cabot Oil v. Ray Kemble. 2008: Cabot contaminated Dimock drinking water. 2020: PA AG filed 15 criminal charges, including 9 felonies, against Cabot. 2021: Cabot becomes Coterra Energy. Changing names hides crimes (like Encana to Ovintiv).

2023: Judicial Frac-Farce, Dimock PA: Aquifer polluter Coterra (Cabot) rewarded, the harmed betrayed, to be refrac’d. 15 criminal charges, incl. 9 felonies, dropped to 1 misdemeanor, Judge J. Legg accepts Coterra admitting criminal responsibility while denying guilt; DEP un-bans Coterra from 9 sq mile gas-contaminated groundwater zone. Judge orders: 2 supply wells drilled (any safe groundwater there?); 10 mile water p/l that’ll take *5 yrs* to build (same was ordered a decade ago but pro-frac’ers killed it, and will again); bottled water for 75 years (after that?) or water treatment systems known to blow up (Bruce Jack and two industry gas-in-water testers were nearly killed by similar system pimped by Alberta gov’t in 2006).

2024: Pennsylvania: Dimock’s water frac’d and poisoned for 14 years (Rosebud’s for over 20). Craig Stevens: “We have a right as Pennsylvania citizens to clean air and clean water.” Ray Kemble: “Lobbying should be illegal. … The lobbyists outnumber us three to one. … No one will enforce the constitution.” No one will in Canada either where judges lie in rulings and keep secrets to protect charter-violating frac-enabler AER, 100% funded and controlled by industry.

2024: Dimock PA poisoned by Coterra (prev Cabot), betrayed by Gov Josh Shapiro. Ray Kemble: “Sure as hell, I’m not voting for either of those two assholes [Trump/Harris] … My water is still not fixed. … There’s massive drilling like crazy. … This is my final fuck you to everybody, there’s going to be a scientist behind every tree here … I’m tired of all the bullshit, all the stories and all the fucking crap. I want the hell out of here.”

2024: Hey, Josh Shapiro, I’m happy back stabber you didn’t get picked for running mate. Frac’d families suffer when politicians like you make deals with polluters like water frac’er Cabot (now Coterra). Dimock Water Now! How many decades must the people wait for the safe water their constitution guarantees them?

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