New Lawsuit Filed in Next Chapter of Dimock, Pennsylvania, Fracking Water Pollution Saga

New Lawsuit Filed in Next Chapter of Dimock, Pennsylvania, Fracking Water Pollution Saga.
Kemble lives around the corner from the embattled Carter Road, where his neighbors have been struggling for years with a similar water pollution suit against Cabot.
However, the judge in their case recently overturned the verdict amid an ongoing dispute over the legality of evidence the families’ attorney referenced during the trial.
The Timeline After Kemble filed a complaint with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), the lawsuit outlines that Cabot agreed to a consent order in 2009.
Kemble says that doing so led to groundwater contamination, causing his well water to become “brown and cloudy.” In 2009, Costello I was wrapped into the consent order, and in 2013 the Pennsylvania DEP ordered that Cabot plug the well.
Cabot chose to use the horizontal drilling technique on three of them.
The complaint alleges that this led to further discoloration of Kemble’s water, “turning [it] black, like mud, [with] a strong chemical odor” once fracking began in November 2012.
Cabot has already weighed in on the lawsuit and its claims, and is of the opinion that they are without merit.
“Cabot intends to vigorously defend the lawsuit.” Kemble formerly worked for the drilling industry for nearly four years.
DeSmog previously reported that Kemble has developed bladder cancer, which he thinks is linked to the drilling activity.

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