Lawsuit

Despite the threat of a lawsuit by the energy industry, Colorado regulators last week tentatively approved new rules designed to protect the state’s wildlife habitat from some oil and natural gas drilling operations.

Despite the threat of a lawsuit by the energy industry, Colorado regulators Tuesday tentatively approved new rules designed to protect the state’s wildlife habitat from some oil and natural gas drilling operations.

A U.S. District Court judge last week awarded $347.3 million in damages to Bank of America Corp. in a lawsuit originally filed by American Electric Power (AEP) four years ago in the midst of Enron Corp.’s bankruptcy proceedings.

A U.S. District Court judge has awarded $347.3 million in damages to Bank of America Corp. in a lawsuit originally filed by American Electric Power (AEP) four years ago in the midst of Enron Corp.’s bankruptcy proceedings.

The California Superior Court in Los Angeles set a Feb. 11 hearing on Mitsubishi’s Sound Energy Solutions’ (SES) lawsuit seeking to force the Port of Long Beach to completed an unfinished environmental review of SES’s proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving terminal in the Port of Long Beach. The latest court action came last Friday.

A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a lawsuit brought by six members of the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation who are seeking to derail the Quoddy Bay liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG) proposed for development on tribal land in Maine.

A federal appeals court has breathed new life into a lawsuit brought by six members of the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation who are seeking to derail the Quoddy Bay liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG) proposed for development on tribal land in Maine.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday affirmed a lower court’s ruling to allow a lawsuit by E. & J. Gallo Winery of Modesto, CA, to continue against EnCana Corp. and “multiple unnamed co-conspirators” over colluding to increase the price of natural gas it sold to the winemaker in 2001.

EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. settled a lawsuit brought by a New Mexico man who was burned in an explosion at the Lisbon Valley natural gas plant in 2004 (see Daily GPI, Aug. 30). Details were to be confidential. Following six days of testimony in a jury trial in U.S. District Judge Paul Cassell’s courtroom in Salt Lake City, the EnCana subsidiary on Aug. 27 was found 100% liable for Michael Melton’s injuries. The jury was determining compensatory damages and a possible punitive judgment against EnCana when the private settlement was reached late Thursday. When Melton was injured in 2004, the plant was owned by Denver-based Tom Brown Inc. (TBI), which was bought by Calgary-based EnCana Corp. (see Daily GPI, April 16, 2004). TBI’s operations were merged with those of EnCana Oil & Gas (USA) in 2005.