by Brett Shipp / WFAA.com Posted on June 6, 2014 at 9:01 AM Updated Friday, Jun 6 at 9:01 AM For the past two years, News 8 has aired a series of stories of flames shooting from water wells in Parker County. Dangerous levels of methane gas somehow found its way into the water supply. While Barnett Shale gas producers [...]
In all but the simplest cases, litigation inevitably devolves into protracted battles over the right to sue itself. Lawsuits drag on for years without ever reaching the underlying dispute, as governments and corporations hide behind a minefield of legal principles designed to close the doors of justice and deprive the people of their day in court. When all else fails, [...]
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By RUSSEL L. HONORÉMAY 28, 2014 BATON ROUGE, La. — After decades of watching our state being ravaged to support the nation’s oil and gas addiction, the people of Louisiana have had enough. Last summer, an independent government authority responsible for flood protection for the New Orleans area sued more than 90 oil and gas companies for damaging coastal marshes [...]
Our region has been battered by storms and oiled by BP. We also face a long-term challenge in funding, without putting the burden on ordinary taxpayers, the $50 billion program the State says is necessary to save our vital coastal wetlands. As most know, our wetlands are where many of us live and work, and they nurture our commercial fishery [...]
