SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) – One of the largest gas drillers in Pennsylvania says it will appeal a $4.24 million jury verdict that found the company polluted the well water of two families.
Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. said Thursday the jury’s verdict “disregards overwhelming scientific and factual evidence” that it conducted itself properly in the small village of Dimock.
The verdict comes at the end of a long-running federal lawsuit pitting homeowners against Cabot.
Dimock was the scene of the most highly publicized case of methane contamination to emerge from the early days of Pennsylvania’s natural-gas drilling boom. State regulators blamed faulty gas wells drilled by Cabot for leaking combustible methane into Dimock’s groundwater. Cabot claimed the methane was naturally occurring.
Dimock’s plight was featured in the Emmy-winning 2010 documentary “Gasland.”
