"According to the complaint, Anschutz owns two natural gas wells that were drilled almost 10,000 feet vertically and then horizontally into the Trenton Black River shale formation. The lawsuit claims the company was negligent in its drilling, construction and operation of the gas wells and that as a result of this negligence, the plaintiffs' water supplies became contaminated. ...

The [law] firm says the suit is the first case brought in New York for groundwater contamination caused by natural gas drilling. ..."

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