The Scranton Times seems to be in love with Dimock, Pennsylvania, but a different Dimock than the one most of the community knows. It’s “Dimock Forever” as the paper struggles to keep the myth perpetuated by a dozen litigants alive, all the while ignoring a forgotten community that knows differently.

The people of Dimock, and certainly our friends at Cabot Oil & Gas, have got to feel very frustrated about now with the latest story in the Scranton Times suggesting the EPA investigation somehow wasn’t the final word but, rather, some new imagined chapter in a slay the dragons saga the paper’s been spinning.

They see the words and messages of a very few paraded constantly across the pages of all the major media, purporting to speak for, or at least represent, a mythical “Dimock” that has been industrialized, polluted and scarred for life.

They know the truth – it is precisely the opposite – yet no one asks for their opinion and when they offer it anyway, it is marginalized. It doesn’t fit the storyline, after all. The fact the overwhelming majority of Dimock residents are supportive of natural gas development just doesn’t make for big headlines, so they don’t get asked for quotes. No one visits their homes to find out what the water was like 30 years ago. No one asks them about how natural gas has affected their lives, or not affected their lives. They are the “Dimock Forgotten.”

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