Residents of Dimock, Susquehanna County and eight major environmental and advocacy organizations will hold a Stand With Dimock Day on August 16 to call attention to the fact that water supplies contaminated by shale gas development in 2009 have still not been permanently replaced.

“This will be a celebratory time for environmentalists and scientists across the state to come together and call out elected leaders who have ignored the plight of the longsuffering residents of Dimock,” said Ray Kemble, a local resident and clean water activist who is credited with helping to mobilize bans on fracking in New York and Maryland. “There are 100 million gallons of brine water being stored above my property headed for the Susquehanna River. It's a fracking fountain.”

The day will include a Toxic Tour of the Dimock community and industry sites, a tour of a soon-to-open environmental center and a rally with speakers who will address the repeated and ongoing systemic violation of residents’ environmental rights.

Stand With Dimock Day will be held at the Dimock Environmental Research Center, 11081 State Route 3023 in Montrose, Susquehanna County from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Elected officials and media are invited and encouraged to attend.  Click Here to RSVP.

Questions should be directed to: Shannon Smith, smith@fractracker.org,  or call 814-449-0659.

Resource Links:

-- AG Shapiro: Coterra Energy, Formerly Cabot Oil & Gas, Pleads No Contest To A Criminal Charge Related To Polluting Water Supplies In Dimock, Susquehanna County [PaEN - December 2022]

-- DEP Consent Agreement Allowing Shale Gas Drilling To Resume Under Dimock, Susquehanna County Sets New Drilling, Water Supply Protection Standards, Imposes $444,000 Penalty [PaEN - December 2022]

-- Attorney General Shapiro Files Criminal Charges Against Cabot Oil & Gas For Water, Methane Contamination In Dimock, Susquehanna County  [PaEN - June, 2020]

-- Eureka Resources Request To Terminate Its Water Quality Permit For A Proposed Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility In Dimock, Susquehanna County Approved By DEP [PaEN - August 2024]

-- Environmental Health Project: Gov. Shapiro’s Record On Shale Gas And Health - A Look At The Grand Jury Recommendations One Year In

-- Physicians For Social Responsibility - PA: Gov. Shapiro And The Fossil Fuel Industry - Abandoning Climate Science For Industry Support

-- We’ve Heard This Before: ‘We’re Providing Jobs - Stopping Pollution Threatens Jobs’ - A Brief Review Of Pennsylvania’s Conservation History [PaEN]

PA Oil & Gas Industry Public Notice Dashboards:

-- PA Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - August 3 to 9 - Diversified Prod LLC Fails To Comply With Order To Plug Abandoned Shale Gas Wells;  700 Abandoned Conventional Well Violations  [PaEN]

-- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices, Opportunities To Comment - August 10 [PaEN]

-- DEP Posted 62 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In August 10 PA Bulletin  [PaEN] 

Related Articles This Week:

-- Erie Times: How PA's Oil & Gas Industry Continues To Illegally Dump Wastewater On Roads Across The State  [PaEN]

-- Residents, Environmental Groups, Advocates To Hold A Stand With Dimock Day On Aug. 16 In Montrose, Susquehanna County [PaEN]

-- Center For Coalfield Justice Hosts Aug. 20 In-Person Program On Investigations Into Rare Childhood Cancers In Washington County  [PaEN]

-- Environmental Health Project Contributes To New Book On Sustainable Development & Rural Public Health - From Fossil Fuels To Greener Futures  [PaEN]

-- Guest Essay: Pennsylvania May Not Be Able To Keep All The Lights On In Four Years -  By Terry Fitzpatrick, Energy [Utilities] Association Of PA  [PaEN]

NewsClips:

-- TribLive Guest Essay: Fracking And Harris - How Close Is Too Close? - By Terrie Baumgardner, Clean Air Council’s Beaver County Outreach Coordinator

-- Erie Times - How PA’s Oil & Gas Industry Illegally Dumps Waste On Roads Across The State

-- Courier Times: How PA’s Oil & Gas Industry Illegally Dump Wastewater On Roads Across The State

-- NPJ Climate Action: Community Rights And Energy Politics In Lycoming County

-- Post-Gazette Guest Essay: DEP Won’t Use Conventional Oil & Gas Well Owners To Plug Abandoned Wells - By Commonwealth Foundation [Factually Wrong On Plugging Contracts + Conventional Well Owners Own Tens Of Thousands Of Abandoned Wells + They Got 687 Violations For Abandoning Wells So Far In 2024, One Well Owner Abandoned 120 Last Week Alone]

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Diversified Energy Grows Via Culling, Harvesting Mature Conventional Gas Wells  [PDF of article]

-- City & State PA Guest Essay: New Gas, Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Rules Must Be Enacted For The Health Of Current And Future Generations - By State Sen. Nikil Saval (D-Philadelphia) and Pete Gosar, Wyoming, Western Leaders & Appalachian Leaders Voices

-- FracTracker Alliance: PA Oil & Gas Industry Trends - Drilled Wells, Violations, Production, Waste

-- FracTracker Alliance: How Fracking Bans Protect Communities And The Environment

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Shale Drilling Becomes Leaner & Meaner, Lowering Costs  [PDF of article]

-- TribLive Podcast: Looking Back At The Plum Boro Natural Gas Home Explosion In Allegheny County

-- WFMZ: Natural Gas Leak Prompts Evacuations, Road Closure In Palmer Twp., Northampton County 

-- AG Henry Announces Settlement With Titan Gas, LLC Over Alleged Unlawful Telemarketing Practices

-- Post-Gazette - Anya Litvak: Emma Lewis, Shell Senior VP Of Chemicals Wants To Build Trust And A Legacy At Shell’s Petrochemical Plant In Beaver County

-- Beaver County Times: Native Tree Nursery & Forest Education Center Groundbreaking In Brady’s Run Park [Supported By Shell Petrochemical Plant Penalty Mitigation Fund]

-- Reuters: Petrochemical Makers Battle Global Glut

-- Capital & Main - Audrey Carleton: Despite The Risks, Pennsylvania Races Into The Geologic Carbon Capture Era

-- Utility Dive: Dominion Energy Says Its Ratepayers Will Be Insulated From PJM Capacity Auction Record High Prices

-- Utility Dive: Constellation Energy Raises 2024 Profit Guidance Amid PJM Load Growth, Tighter Power Supplies

-- Utility Dive: Federal Court Vacates FERC’s Reapproval Of 2 LNG Gas Export Terminals, Gas Pipeline

-- Washington Examiner: US DOE Files Appeal To Continue Pause On New LNG Gas Export Facility Permits

-- E&E News: Oil And Gas Jobs Decline Amid Record-Breaking Production

-- Reuters: US Natural Gas Producers Eye More Output Cuts As Prices Sink

-- Reuters: US EIA Forecasts Larger Decline In US Natural Gas Output For 2024, Citing Record Low Prices That Prompted Producers To Curtail Gas Production

-- Reuters: US EIA Sees Tighter US Oil Market For 2024, Lowers Price Outlook

-- Reuters: Natural Gas Price Shocks Play Greater Role In Euro Zone Inflation, ECB Paper Says

-- AP: Harris Once Wanted To Ban Fracking; Ex-President Wants Voters In Energy-Rich Pennsylvania To Remember

-- Inside Climate News: In PA’s Competitive US Senate Race, Fracking Takes Center Stage

[Posted: August 8, 2024]

8/12/2024