Coterra to pay $16.3M for brand spanking new public water provide in Pennsylvania plea deal (NYSE:CTRA)

Coterra Power (NYSE:CTRA) pleaded no contest Tuesday to felony prices for allegedly contaminating the consuming water in a rural Pennsylvania city 14 years in the past after which making an attempt to evade duty.

Beneath a plea deal, Coterra (CTRA) agreed to pay $16.3M to attach the properties of the realm’s residents to a brand new public water provide in Susquehanna County and pay their water payments for the following 75 years.

Coterra’s (CTRA) company predecessor, Cabot Oil & Gasoline Corp., was charged in June 2020 with 15 felony counts for allegedly drilled defective gasoline wells that leaked flammable methane into residential water provides in Dimock, Pa., and surrounding communities.

The corporate maintained that the methane in residents’ wells was naturally occurring, earlier than pleading no contest to a cost of prohibition in opposition to discharge of commercial wastes below the state’s Clear Streams Regulation.

Pennsylvania American Water (AWK) has stated it plans to drill two wells and construct a remedy plant that may take away any contaminants from the water earlier than piping it to ~20 properties in Dimock.

The realm gained nationwide consideration when the 2010 documentary Gasland confirmed residents lighting their faucet water on fireplace.

With robust free money stream and capital returns, Conterra Power’s (CTRA) risk-reward is compelling, Michael Wiggins de Oliveira writes in an evaluation posted on In search of Alpha.