Sentences with phrase «against oil and gas companies»

While lawsuits against the oil and gas companies make major headlines in ND, hundreds more lawsuits filed against private citizens each year go unmentioned by the media.

Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon weighed in on Louisiana's comparatively high auto insurance rates on Monday (Feb. 17), noting a recent landmark suit filed by the East Bank levee board against oil and gas companies will help further a wider push to revisit tort reform during this year's legislative session.

Being represented by a lawyer who has successfully handled personal injury cases against oil and gas companies and other responsible parties, offers you the best chance of getting fair compensation for your injuries.

Not exact matches

Weingarten cautions against equating R&D spending too closely with innovation, noting that many oil and gas companies fare poorly under such measurements because of Statistics Canada's criteria for research spending, but still frequently develop new methods and ideas.

Oil and gas company Citation Resources has launched proceedings in the Federal Court against its former chairman Peter Landau after an investigation revealed issues concerning $ 2 million worth of transactions.

Citation Resources has appointed KordaMentha as voluntary administrators, while the oil and gas company continues to pursue recovery of funds through a civil action against former director Peter Landau.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department indicted McClendon in a conspiracy in which two unnamed companies agreed not to bid against each other for oil and gas leases in northwest Oklahoma between late 2007 and early 2012, a charge he denied.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

Credit distress is rampant among energy companies, which borrowed heavily against the promise of shale oil and gas extraction and are now reeling from what looks like a prolonged price crash.

Pipeline, oil, and gas companies have lobbied against the tariffs because there just isn't enough domestic steel available to make pipeline materials.

The other defendants in the charge which the Police withdrew against Ogah were his company, Masters Energy Oil and Gas Limited; and an ex-employee of United Bank for Africa, Deji Somoye.

Pruitt, one of Trump's controversial cabinet picks, has in the past worked to file lawsuits against the agency he is now running on the behalf of coal, oil and gas companies, according to The New York Times.

In July 2013, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East, which maintains levees around New Orleans, filed suit against more than 90 oil, gas and pipeline companies.

The company seemed to be about 80 - 90 % hedged against fluctuations in oil and gas prices for the next three years and was paying a pretty handsome dividend.

Several cities and counties in California have filed lawsuits against Exxon and other oil companies, alleging they conspired to cast doubt on climate change science and delay restrictions on greenhouse gases.

Last night the Louisiana House approved a bill that retroactively kills a lawsuit by the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East against 97 oil and gas companies for the industry's pollution and damage to the state's wetlands.

On Wednesday night, the City and County of Santa Cruz, California filed two lawsuits against 29 oil, gas, and coal companies, claiming they knew about climate change and somehow hid it from the public.

Faced with the possibility of devastating consequences brought by rising sea levels, five cities and three counties in California, along with New York City, have filed civil lawsuits against several oil and gas companies.

Marin and San Mateo counties, near San Francisco, and the city of Imperial Beach, south of San Diego, filed the new lawsuits in California Superior Court on Monday against Exxon, Shell and 35 other oil, gas and coal companies.

In many cases, the groups involved accept money from oil, gas and coal companies that compete against renewable energy suppliers.

U.S. and European oil and gas companies are under increasing pressure from shareholders to stress test their businesses against a...

The proposed ALEC model «Environmental Impact Litigation Act,» based on a law passed in North Dakota in 2015, would allow coal, oil, and gas companies to pay into a fund for the state to sue against a number of key federal environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act.

Over 500 activists peacefully demonstrated against the negative impacts of offshore exploration and exploitation, under discussion at the MCE Deepwater Development summit by representatives from big oil and gas companies including Total, Shell, BP, Exxon, and Repsol.

San Francisco filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court against five oil and gas companies alleging that the carbon emissions from their fossil fuel production had created an unlawful public nuisance.

Rex Tillerson claimed to support a carbon tax while CEO of ExxonMobil, but under his watch last year the oil and gas company lobbied against two pioneering carbon tax bills in Massachusetts, and it has long funded opponents of carbon pricing.

Rex Tillerson claimed to support a carbon tax while CEO of ExxonMobil, but under his watch last year the oil and gas company lobbied against two pioneering carbon tax bills in Massachusetts, and it has long funded opponents of carbon...

We'd become beach bums living on the proceeds of lawsuits against fast food companies in trailer parks complaining the government didn't do enough to protect us from big oil and bad weather, and was letting gas prices get too high.

But while the activists were scrambling to develop new attacks against the oil and gas industry, Judge Alsup was scolding the presenters representing the cities that are suing the energy companies for presenting misleading information.

New York City and eight coastal California cities and counties, including San Francisco and Oakland, have filed similar lawsuits against ExxonMobil and other oil and gas companies, charging that they have injured their communities under common law.

A recent SEC decision allowing EOG Resources, one of the largest U.S. independent oil & gas companies, to exclude a shareholder resolution on GHG emissions reduction targets goes against past precedent, and may be a harbinger of further limits on shareholder engagement.

The Orphan Well Association and Alberta Energy Regulator will face off against bankruptcy trustee Grant Thornton in court on Thursday, asking the high court to decide on the sale of a bankrupt company's oil and gas properties, and the costs of remediation for orphan wells.

Many of David's cases relate to the energy sector and in particular he has considerable experience of litigating for and against state oil and gas companies, typically in confidential arbitration proceedings (see the Arbitration section above for more details).

The Federal Court of Canada has ruled against a Calgary - based oil and gas services company ensuring there is no monopoly on a fracturing technology used in horizontal drilling and well completion systems in the sector.

Represented an independent oil and gas producers in a multi-million dollar arbitration against drilling companies in commercial transaction disputes.

A European oil and gas company as plaintiff in U.S. litigation against foreign sovereign related to expropriation of a multi-billion dollar South American subsidiary

If you were hurt at an oil or gas well site as a result of defective machinery or heavy equipment, you might be able to bring a products liability lawsuit against the company that designed and made the machinery or equipment.

Tullow Oil, a FTSE 100 - listed oil and gas exploration company, announced this March that it will withdraw from the DRC — as well as dropping litigation proceedings it had against the countOil, a FTSE 100 - listed oil and gas exploration company, announced this March that it will withdraw from the DRC — as well as dropping litigation proceedings it had against the countoil and gas exploration company, announced this March that it will withdraw from the DRC — as well as dropping litigation proceedings it had against the country.

Represented gas retailers against an oil & gas company in a breach of contract action alleging and proving that the company did not set the price it charged the gas retailers for gasoline in accordance with their contracts.

On September 22, 2015 Greenpeace Southeast Asia, 11 other organizations and 20 individuals filed a human rights complaint against 50 private companies — including 6 Canadian oil and gas companies — that are collectively responsible for about 21 % of historic greenhouse gas emissions.

The ongoing representation of a US oil and gas drilling company in US and Venezuelan litigations against the Republic of Venezuela and the Venezuelan national oil company for takings in violation of international law and breaches of contract under the expropriation and commercial activities exceptions of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

Representation of hundreds of investors in complex securities action involving oil and gas investor scam resulting in $ 21.5 MM disgorgement order obtained by the Securities and Exchange Commission against the perpetrators and the investor clients receiving a collective 60 % interest in the oil and gas company after the perpetrators were removed through successful appointment of a Ch.

Representing an American investor against an Indian oil company in a dispute relating to oil and gas fields located off the coast of India.

Advising a major oil and gas company against an American contractor, in a dispute concerning a gas plant debottlenecking project.

Through careful navigation of the regulatory requirements, we developed an innovative solution that avoided pitting state and federal authorities against each other and ultimately allowed the company to refocus its strategy to increase oil and gas production at its Elk Hills Oil Field while improving efficiency and lowering operating cosoil and gas production at its Elk Hills Oil Field while improving efficiency and lowering operating cosOil Field while improving efficiency and lowering operating costs.

against two oil and gas companies after a 5.7 magnitude earthquake, the strongest in state history, struck in 2011.

Environmental organization Milieudefensie is filing a lawsuit against Shell in an effort to force the Dutch oil and gas company to adjust its policy to prevent further damage to the climate, Milieudefensie announced in a press conference at Shell's former headquarters in Amsterdam, ANP reports.