PA DEP Fines Cabot $99K for Paperwork Violations, Air Emissions

The Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) is picking on Cabot Oil & Gas--or more properly, shaking them down for some cash. Yesterday the DEP announced it had reached an "agreement" with Cabot whereby Cabot will pay the DEP $99,000 "for air quality violations related to equipment at natural gas wells throughout Susquehanna County." But that's not all, Cabot failed to file some paperwork--a far more egregious violation for the DEP: "Cabot failed to submit complete compliance demonstration reports for 20 gas wells." Bad, bad Cabot. Here's news of the DEP's latest shakedown of a company that has (so far) invested over $4.6 billion in a single northeast PA county...

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