By Wes Helbling Bastrop Daily Enterprise Posted Mar 23, 2012 @ 07:30 AM BASTROP, La. — The USA Speedway has fulfilled the requirements of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to restore wetlands that were disturbed during its construction. The USA Speedway is a dirt race track constructed in West Sterlington in 2009. The track came […]
Case Updates
Alligator Bayou owners: parishes ruined our business
Iberville and Ascension parishes should compensate the owners of Alligator Bayou Swamp Tours for opening the bayou’s floodgate in 2009 and ruining the company’s business, an attorney for the firm told a state appellate court Thursday. “They (Iberville and Ascension governments) destroyed the swamp tour business. They (the company’s owners) should be compensated,’’ Clay Garside, […]
Mississippi Power and Sierra Club talk about ruling
Posted: Mar 17, 2012 3:59 PM CDT Updated: Mar 17, 2012 8:28 PM CDT By Michelle Lady SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) – The Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously ruled the Public Service Commission must go back and provide more details on why commissioners eased the financial terms under which the Kemper County Power Plant could be built. […]
Sierra Club files suit against MDA
Posted: Mar 15, 2012 10:24 AM CDT Updated: Mar 15, 2012 11:33 AM CDT Gulf Restoration Network Sierra Club – Mississippi HARRISON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) – The Sierra Club and Gulf Restoration Network have filed a lawsuit against the Mississippi Development Authority, challenging the regulations that have been created for oil and gas exploration in […]
USA Speedway’s future could hinge on result of October court date
By Wes Helbling Bastrop Daily Enterprise Posted Mar 09, 2012 @ 11:00 AM BASTROP — Documents on file with the Union Parish Clerk of Court indicate the fate of the USA Speedway will be decided by a jury in October. The court date is slated for more than two years after residents initially filed a […]
BP Oil Spill: A Tale of Three Plaintiffs
Reuters | Mar 11, 2012, 08.58PM IST VENICE (LOUISIANA): The phone at Joan Strohmeyer’s fishing lodge has been ringing steadily since 2010, but not many of the calls are from customers who want to go fishing. Mainly, they are from lawyers who want her to sue British oil company BP Plc. The tidy, 62-room Lighthouse […]
BP spill settlement promises fast payouts
BP spill settlement promises fast payouts Published: Sunday, March 04, 2012, 3:11 PM Updated: Monday, March 05, 2012, 6:19 AM By Rebecca Mowbray, The Times-Picayune After reaching a deal Friday night to settle health and economic damage claims by individuals and businesses who were harmed by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP and plaintiff […]
Gulf oil spill settlement reached; BP expected to pay out $7.8 billion
Published: Friday, March 02, 2012, 11:00 PM Updated: Saturday, March 03, 2012, 12:12 AM By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune BP and the private plaintiffs in the massive Gulf oil spill litigation have reached a settlement that BP estimates will cost $7.8 billion. But that is an uncapped amount, an the court still must supervise the […]
Gulf oil spill trial postponed; complex issues involved
By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY NEW ORLEANS (USA TODAY) — The stories soon to unfold in a federal courtroom here are just the beginning of one of the biggest environmental cases in U.S. history: the deadly 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and its multibillion-dollar impact on the Gulf Coast and its people. With record-breaking […]
BP Oil-Spill Trial Postponed for Settlement Negotiations
By SABRINA CANFIELD NEW ORLEANS (CN) – With billions of dollars at stake, the trial over the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history was pushed back a week as settlement talks between BP and oil spill plaintiffs’ attorneys continued. The trial had been set to open today, Monday, but was rescheduled to begin in a […]