A Good Decision Is Reversed: Cabot Oil Is Given An Undeserved Thumbs Up By Judge

I feel a personal connection to my dear friends in Dimock, PA, because I became friends with quite a few residents of Susquehanna County in 2009 when I had my epiphany about the natural gas industry and the destruction it was causing, especially in Dimock which was hit so hard early on when hydrofracking started tearing up everything underground, causing water contamination and illness.  This weekend a judge vacated a case against Cabot Oil, taking away a $4 billion award to two families who have suffered so much in the last 8 years or more since Cabot ruined their perfectly good water.  Now the judge says a new trial would be required.  Read about the devastating news here.

This is the first post I have posted since September 2015.  I am so angry about this decision that I was compelled to return to my blog and write about it. 

Albany, NY, Anti-Fracking Rally May 15th

Published on May 16, 2012 by veraduerga
Taped 5-15-12. Great Speakers and Music. Fourteen PA. people came and Mark Ruffalo there. Speakers are Onondaga Nation Turtle Clan Mother, Sandra Steingraber- Biologist, Sen. Avella and his SB 4220 for a ban, Julia Walsh, Food and Water Watch, Wes Gillingham of Catskill Mountainkeeper, Ben and Elaine Perkus, Mark Ruffalo, Victoria Switzer of Dimock, Pa., Craig and Julie Sautner of Dimock, Pa., The Mohawk Ahkwesasne Women Singers.

Is Your Water at Risk from Fracking?

From Food and Water Watch, a clever, entertaining video that lasts 2½ minutes!

Food and Water Watch Mission Statement:

Our Mission

Food & Water Watch works to ensure the food, water and fish we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. So we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of where their food comes from, keep clean, affordable, public tap water flowing freely to our homes, protect the environmental quality of oceans, force government to do its job protecting citizens, and educate about the importance of keeping the global commons — our shared resources — under public control.

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