Dimock, the small village in northeastern Pennsylvania, gained national notoriety when residents were filmed lighting their tap water on fire.
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 10: Ray Kemble of Dimock, Pennsylvania, show water samples collected from Dimock, Pennsylvania during a rally on fracking-related water investigations October 10, 2014 outside EPAs Headquarters in Washington, DC.
Coterra will be permitted to drill horizontally underneath a 9-square-mile area of Dimock and frack the gas-bearing shale that lies thousands of feet down. That's been forbidden since 2010, when environmental regulators accused Coterra's corporate predecessor of failing to keep its promise to restore or replace Dimock's water.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro, a Democrat who takes office as governor next month, held a celebratory news conference with Kemble and two other Dimock residents on the day Coterra entered its plea. At the news conference, Shapiro punted a reporter’s question about whether Coterra would be permitted to resume drilling in the moratorium area, pointing out the administration of Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf was still in charge.
Zacariah Hildenbrand, a Dallas-based biochemist who has conducted testing in Dimock, said that technically speaking, the horizontal portion of a gas well is "orders of magnitude safer" than the vertical portion, from which most incidents of drilling-related water contamination originate. In a statement, Coterra spokesperson George Stark said the agreement with DEP "resolves longstanding issues and provides for the responsible and safe development of natural resources located inside the nine-square mile area. It also satisfies the desires of many of the landowners, who communicated their support for such development over the years."
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