Tag: wells

Shut Down Wells, EPA Orders Gas Drilling Company

Walter Wang Renewable Energy, Water & Conservation April 13, 2015

In its 2009 annual report, Cabot Oil and Gas named a field in Texas and another in Dimock, Pa., as its two largest fields of production. But yesterday the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection ordered Cabot to plug at least Read more…

Drilling Chemicals Found In Drinking Water Near Natural Gas Sites

Ceylan Thomson Water & Conservation April 8, 2015

For the first time, scientists have discovered chemicals used in a controversial natural gas drilling technique in water wells near the gas sites. Scientists for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), testing wells near a major gas drilling area in Wyoming, Read more…