Will Dimock Be the New ‘Alamo’ for Fracking Foes?

Scott Detrow / WITF

Film­maker Josh Fox protests out­side Gov­er­nor Corbett’s office in June

Dimock, Pa., res­i­dents and sup­port­ers are plan­ning an emer­gency meet­ing in response to the announce­ment by the Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion that Cabot Oil and Gas no longer has to deliver water to res­i­dents. From the AP:

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has been deliv­er­ing water to homes in the north­east vil­lage of Dimock since Jan­u­ary of 2009. The Houston-based energy com­pany asked the Depart­ment of Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion for per­mis­sion to stop the water deliv­er­ies by the end of Novem­ber, say­ing Dimock’s water is safe to drink.

DEP says Cabot has sat­is­fied all the terms of an agree­ment reached last year, which promised $4.1 mil­lion dol­lars to affected res­i­dents. But not all of those Dimock res­i­dents have accepted the set­tle­ment and they are still engaged in a law­suit against the com­pany. Craig Stevens, who lives in nearby Spring Lake Town­ship, sent out an email notice to sup­port­ers call­ing on them to make Dimock “the Alamo” of gas drilling opponents.

“The Only thing Nec­es­sary for the Tri­umph of Evil is for Good Men to do Noth­ing ” Sir Edmund Burke
Are You a Good Man or Woman ? What will You do to Help save Your neigh­bors in need of pro­tec­tion. Will You Stand With Us in Dimock for this Basic Human Right of Clean Water and Air for Our Cit­i­zens ? We are call­ing Dimock Our ALAMO and as the flag says COME AND TAKE IT , We Will Stand Our Ground !

Stevens says he wants to help plan a large rally in down­town Dimock and invite anti-gas drilling doc­u­men­tar­ian Josh Fox, and folk singer Pete Seeger.

“These elected offi­cials who say it’s fine, I’d like them to come here and drink a 32-ouncer (of this water) right in front of us,” said Stevens. “Crick­ets will be chirping.”