It’s Mardi Gras. If you see my college-student daughter chasing beads, dubloons and coconuts, tell her to get back to the library where she said she was going. In Walton vs. Burns, another legacy pollution case, a Louisiana court of appeal ruled, among other things, that a surface owner has the right to assert a claim… Continue Reading
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Subscribe to Pollution RSS FeedLouisiana Addresses Legacy Pollution Claims
Posted in Litigation, PollutionLouisiana Governor Bobby Jindal signed into law two bills significantly revising Louisiana’s oilfield cleanup statute, La. R. S 30:29. The new law affects the procedures for remediating oil field pollution and resolving oilfield contamination claims. The purupose is to expedite the remediation process and the resolution of claims. For the highlights that were important to the Louisiana Oil and Gas Association,… Continue Reading
In a Legacy Pollution Suit Plaintiff Gets the Jalopy, not the Mercedes
Posted in PollutionYou’re driving while texting your engineers about enhancing reservoir performance with LPG gel fracturing technology, and you rear-end a broken-down 15-year old Kia. The owner demands to be made whole. Is he entitled to the equivalent of another jalopy just as good as the one he had or, say, the brand-new Mercedes he says he needs? The Louisiana Supreme Court, in its latest… Continue Reading