Pennsylvania this week fined a Texas-based natural gas drilling company, Cabot Oil & Gas, $120,000 for causing underground methane leaks that contaminated the drinking water of 13 families in the northeastern part of the state, near Dimock, Pa. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection ordered the firm to replace the water supplies of these homes. This video I made tells the stories of two families who had their water ruined.
Their accounts provide vivid examples of why the Chesapeake Bay Foundation is fighting to protect streams and underground water supplies during the current drilling boom across Pennsylvania. About 650 wells have been drilled in the state over the last four years in the Marcellus Shale formation, and many more are planned.
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