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Case ID: 4427 | Environmental | 09/16/2005
Two New Orleans area lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit against major oil and gas companies on behalf of victims of Hurricane Katrina. The suit blames drilling activities throughout Southeast Louisiana for destroying hundreds of acres of wetlands that served as natural barriers for New Orleans.
The lawsuit alleges that over a million acres of marshlands in Southeast Louisiana were destroyed primarily because of oil & gas exploration during the past 70 years. “Everyone has been talking about the failures of the state, local and federal governments in the wake of Hurricane Katrina,” said one of the New Orleans area attorneys that filed the case. “We believe it's the right time to pinpoint who's essentially responsible for the devastation caused by Katrina in the first place — the major oil and gas companies, who haphazardly dredged thousands of miles of exploration and drill site canals throughout South Louisiana to extract oil and gas. “I’m blaming oil companies for destroying what previously existed,” he said. “They are the ones that destroyed the 100 miles of natural barriers.” The lawsuit names 10 oil and gas companies, including ExxonnMobil Corp., Chevron Corp., BP Corp., Shell Oil Co., Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corp. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., Shell Pipeline Co., Gulf South Pipeline Co., Koch Pipeline Co. and Columbia Gulf Transmission Company. The lawsuit doesn’t specify a damage amount. The suit has been assigned to Chief Judge Ginger Berrigan. One of the attorneys representing Katrina victims said that the lawsuit doesn’t blame private companies for a natural disaster. However, he said they are responsible for leaving the city of New Orleans vulnerable to a strong hurricane like Katrina. The lawsuit alleges that the oil companies didn’t maintain canals which caused damage to the stability and ecological functions of marshes, leading to land erosion, the creation of spoil banks and impairment of natural ebb and flow of tidal water. At Lawcash.com, it is our goal to keep you informed about important legal cases, class actions and settlements. Our lawyers offer free legal evaluations in tort cases, class actions, personal injury, and other lawsuits because we are dedicated to helping you resolve your legal complaints. Other Environmental Cases of Interest The International Brotherhood of Teamsters filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that Nashville's Middle Metro Police department has neglected the police officers' pension fund by going six years without a performance audit to show how investments have performed. BP, the world’s third-largest publicly traded oil company, announced on August 5, 2006 that it was indefinitely shutting down production of its pipeline in Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay oil field. A class action lawsuit filed in Spokane U.S. District Court blames Columbia Rural Electric Association and Asplundh Tree Experts for the 2005 School Fire.The lawsuit was filed by Keller W. Allen, a former Pasco resident who owns about 1,200 acres in Columbia County.
Exposure to gasoline vapors and additives is known to cause severe health problems, and even death. A class action has been filed against Chevron USA, Inc. on behalf of residents of northeast Washington, D.C., residents who allege that a 1989 gasoline spill damaged their property, made them ill and caused deaths, and violated federal environmental laws.
On June 24, 2005, The U.S. Supreme Court handed a victory to 11,000 small gas station owners in the longstanding class action battle against ExxonMobil Corp.
The case centered on Exxon's August 1982 discount-for-cash program, which promised station owners a price cut for gas to offset a new credit card fee the oil company was charging them. The station owners alleged that Exxon, which later merged with Mobil, eliminated the price discount seven months later, yet for years continued to tell stations that it was providing the discount. In a suit filed in Baltimore County Circuit Court, residents of three homes near Wally's Country Store Citgo Station state their well water has been contaminated with the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether. |
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