Finally, at long last – justice. The Dimock saga comes to a blessed end with an announcement from Cabot Oil & Gas that the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will lift the moratorium on the nine square mile area of the community (the “box”) so the company can finish developing well pads and units in the small bucolic town. Readers of this blog will recall the appeal, last year, of resident Esther Rayias to lift the moratorium.

Justice was delayed a bit when the EPA entered from stage left to play Act II, but the results of that fishing expedition didn’t yield any catches for either the litigants or the special interest groups using Dimock as a fundraising mechanism or call to arms.

All that is prologue now. The DEP has finally drawn the play to a close with a brilliant Act III, bringing the whole fiasco to a conclusion. It patiently waited for its facts to be vindicated and then delivered the news.

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