Cabot Oil & Gas in Pennsylvania has been ordered by the US District Court to pay $4.2m for negligence and contaminating water wells, and causing significant harm to the eight plaintiffs, in a case which was originally highlighted by Josh Fox in his movie Gasland. There have been many hundreds of cases of well water contamination, this one being the latest, but in this case the trial verdict (see below) makes it absolutely clear that fracking does contaminate private water wells. Perhaps now, supporters of fracking will finally stop claiming that fracking doesn’t contaminate our drinking water?

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