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Dimock - An Update

Written by Greg Russell | Sep 2, 2012 1:34:06 PM

The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article that offers an interesting update on the claims in Dimock, PA:  "More than three years after residents in this Susquehanna County town complained that Marcellus Shale natural gas development polluted their private water wells, the lawsuits are getting settled, the activists are going away, and gas drilling is set to resume. *** But the battle scars are unhealed in Dimock, whose name has become synonymous with hydraulic fracturing - fracking. The rush to drill struck a deep reservoir of hostility."