NEW YORK (AP) -- Advocates who want to keep the natural-gas drilling industry out of New York state are sending clean water to a northeastern Pennsylvania village.
About a dozen households in Dimock, Pa., have been scrambling after a gas driller blamed for polluting the aquifer halted daily water deliveries.
Residents there say drilling has made their water unfit to drink. Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. says it is safe.
Actor Mark Ruffalo and local elected officials gathered at City Hall in Manhattan Tuesday before shipping the New York water.
They called on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to visit Dimock.
Cuomo's administration is considering issuing permits for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The natural gas industry says the technique has been used safely for decades. It involves blasting chemical-laced water into the ground.
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