Cabot O&G Clipped $50K by SRBC for Lack of Water Permit

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Timing is everything. If you start drilling a hole too early, it will cost you. In this case, $50,000. That’s the amount Cabot Oil & Gas has offered to pay the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) for their eager-beaver error in drilling a hole on a new well pad in Susquehanna County, PA before they had the necessary approval from the SRBC. No, the SRBC doesn’t suddenly issue permits to drill–that’s the job of the DEP (Dept. of Environmental Protection). However, the SRBC does issue permits for the water that’s needed to drill, and it was that permit Cabot didn’t have in hand when they started to drill late last year. The SRBC says it’s not a big deal and that Cabot is normally “very compliant.” That is, it was a mistake and not intentional. There was no environmental harm as a result. However, for Cabot, it was a costly mistake…

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