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Dakota Access Pipeline company sues Greenpeace under RICO Act
Lawsuit alleges donations were used to fund lucrative drug trafficking scheme inside demonstrator camps The company behind the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline which drew protester camps and controversy has filed a federal lawsuit in North Dakota against Greenpeace International and other organizations and individuals, according to a press release. Energy Transfer Partners LP is built the $3.8 […]
Colorado voices support AG’s decision to appeal “Kids’” anti-fracking lawsuit
Key Colorado officials support Coffman’s decision to appeal the ruling by Katie Brown, EnergyInDepth In the week since Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman (R) announced that she will, over the governor’s objections, appeal a Colorado Court of Appeals ruling that would upend the decades-long oil and natural gas regulatory permitting process in the state, key […]
What you need to know about so-called kids’ anti-fracking lawsuit
Attorneys arguing the case are the same attorneys used by big national green groups by Katie Brown, PhD, EnergyInDepth Colo. Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) has until tomorrow to decide whether or not to appeal a March 2-1 court decision that would change how the state’s oil and gas regulatory agency has reviewed drilling projects for […]
National ‘Ban Fracking’ activist groups hide behind kids in oil and gas lawsuit
For activist groups, “signing up multiple children to be plaintiffs in the various lawsuits” consistent with age-old tactic In what the industry has called a flawed decision that imperils jobs and incomes, the Colorado Court of Appeals recently sided with youth environmentalists in a lawsuit against the state’s chief oil and gas regulators. That is, […]
Judge: Reverses ‘Gasland’ community’s $4.2 million award
Dimock, Penn. has long history of natural-occurring methane in area, misrepresented by Josh Fox in 2010 “Gasland” movie Now that the excitement has died down after news broke March 31 that a federal judge has ordered a retrial in last year’s highly-publicized Dimock nuisance case and thrown out a jury’s multi-million dollar award to plaintiffs, EID […]
Judge dismisses Sierra Club lawsuit to shut down Oklahoma wastewater injection
Oklahoma regulator already taking actions requested by Sierra Club By Seth Whitehead, EnergyInDepth A federal judge this week dealt a major blow to the Sierra Club’s efforts to use a backdoor tactic as a means to ban wastewater injection in Oklahoma. U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Friot on Tuesday dismissed a Sierra Club lawsuit that […]
International tribunal orders Ecuador to pay ConocoPhillips $380 million
Tribunal also issued a separate decision finding Ecuador entitled to $42 million ConocoPhillips’ wholly owned subsidiary, Burlington Resources Inc., received an arbitration award of $380 million from an international arbitration tribunal, constituted under the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), for Ecuador’s unlawful expropriation of Burlington’s significant investment in breach of the […]
Independent oil/gas producers challenge BLM’s venting and flaring rule
DENVER – Western Energy Alliance and the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) filed a lawsuit today challenging Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) final rule regulating venting and flaring from oil and natural gas operations on federal and tribal lands. In its claim filed before the US District Court in Wyoming, the trade associations call […]
The Center for Biological Diversity: A litigation factory that doesn’t shoot straight
California citizens should be outraged by the Center for Biological Diversity’s repeated wasting of their valuable tax dollars By Dave Quast, EnergyInDepth As Energy In Depth has highlighted before, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) is an extremist “multimillion dollar litigation factory” that brags about ignoring science and the law in pursuit of its agenda. Its agenda is to use “psychological […]
Lawsuit challenges BLM’s failure to hold oil and natural gas lease sales
Since Jan. 2015, BLM has received $170 million from lease sales; the number could be higher DENVER – Western Energy Alliance filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the Secretary of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management’s failure to hold quarterly oil and natural gas lease sales on public lands. At a time when Keep-It-in-the-Ground protesters are […]
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