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Award for Nuisance From Gas Wells Squelched

By Charles Sartain on February 14, 2017
Posted in operations, Pollution

bad-dayIt was a bad day for the Parrs in Aruba Petroleum v. Parr. The trial court judgment was against the operator for intentional nuisance. The Parrs recovered $2.9 million for pain and suffering and mental anguish and for loss of market value of their home caused by Aruba’s gas wells in Wise County, Texas. (See…

A Plaintiffs’ Jury Verdict in a Texas Fracing Case

By Charles Sartain on April 30, 2014
Posted in Hydraulic Fracturing, Pollution

Co-author Maryann Zaki

In case you’ve been living in your van down by the river, you’ve heard that a Texas jury awarded $2.9 million to landowners in a case involving alleged hydrocarbon exposure due to hydraulic fracturing operations. Here is the jury verdict. The Parrs sued Aruba Petroleum, alleging that drilling and fracing at…

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