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"I don't live remotely close to Dimock, nor have I ever been there but I feel so bad for those innocent people who have had to put up with what their greedy neighbors put them through. I hope that Dimock can get back to a good place and…"

"Probably not the end of "the crap"... but I suspect you might find some crap in the boxer shorts of those residents that had rejected the Cabot offer of settlement thinking that they were going to cash in on a big old lawsuit…"

"Being in the industry I am so happy to see the POSITIVE reactions to this post. So many times people are very rude when anything new in the industry is even rumored to be moving into their area. PA has the most stringent regulations when it comes to…"

""... elevated bromide concentrations can, under certain circumstances, cause the formation of disinfection by-products that do have a health based drinking water standard. So, elevated bromide levels can create an indirect health issue as…"

"That is correct.  We are dependent on this natural resource ane need it. Pollution prevention should be the focus no prohibition."

"DP, you sound like a reasonable person and your ideas seem like good ones.  Like you, I've seen many old gas and oil wells built using carbon steel.  No question we should strenghten environmental laws to make them use stainless or…"

"As a environmental professional who has investigated numerous oil and gas pollution incidents  it is true that the actual fracing process has a very miminal chance to cause groundwater contamination due to the very deep depth of the formatioin…"

"If a chemical is "naturally occuring" down at 8,000 feet and then you drill which causes that chemical to rise up and contaminate surface drinking water then you are responsible for the clean-up. "Naturally…"

"Paleface,    The article was a study done by the Pennsylvania State University.  The article stated NO wells had any detectable levels of Bromide prior to the Drilling.  Your reply is a complete fabrication based…"

"Homer do you speak for ALL Drillers in PA ?   From the article buggs posted: "... Bromide is sometimes used as a drilling mud additive in the drilling process, which could be a potential source of the increased bromide levels in…"

"As written in the 5th edition Handbook of Oil Industry Terms & Phrases: "A lease given byt he landowner while his property is still under lease by another person or company. Such as lease becomes effective if and when the existing lease…"

"check out this site if you want to know what is in the frac fluid - I have posted this elsewhere but will share here just to prove a point.   FracFocus"