Levee Board Wins Court Victory In Ongoing Landloss Legal Melee

摘要

The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East has won a small tactical victory in its quest to keep alive a suit it filed against 97 oil and natural gas companies over damage to the state's coastal wetlands. In 2013, the levee board hired a team of lawyers to pursue the case, which is calling for the oil and gas companies to pay reparations for damage caused by canals and slips cut into the wetlands over decades starting in the 1920s (NGWJul.29'13).