Sentences with phrase «alleged contamination of»

Ms. Ernst owns land near Rosebud, Alberta, and is suing EnCana Corporation, the ERCB (now the Alberta Energy Regulator) and Alberta Environment (now Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resources Development) for negligence in relation to the alleged contamination of her groundwater as a result of EnCana's hydraulic fracturing (fracking) activities in the area.

Defense of high visibility mass action toxic tort claims against major energy concern by residents of beach community for alleged contamination of public and private real property and for alleged exposure to carcinogenic chemicals and compounds

Not exact matches

Nor can any factual warrant be claimed for asserting the biological harmfulness of miscegenation — the alleged «contamination» of «superior» racial stock by crossing it with «inferior.»

Murnane replaced SCE with another company, but in November OGS terminated both «as a result of massive contamination of the Project site by Murnane's new subcontractor,» according to a footnote in a separate lawsuit filed by SCE against OGS regarding an alleged violation of due process.

In 2008, however, Ecuador filed a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice at The Hague, alleging the Colombian spraying had caused damage to people, crops, and the environment on Ecuadorian ground and demanding indemnification and prevention of further contamination.

Between 2008 and 2011, state regulators reported 150 instances of what the EPA calls «cases of alleged contamination,» in which waste from injection wells purportedly reached aquifers.

Their on - site visit focused on depositional circumstances, confirmation of stratigraphy, validation of depositional context, anthropogenic reality of alleged living structures, and potential sources of carbon contamination at or near the site (Adovasio and Pedler 1997:577).

As for the alleged predisposition of a given ethnicity to an exacting ailment, augmented vulnerability to infectivity, etc., such qualities, in general, don't demonstrate an «ethnic» nature, but are associated with societal, enlightening and extra living conditions, the closeness of hot spots of contamination, the grade of adaptation during immigration, and all that.

The result is a 60 - page Watershed Plan [5](PDF) that dictates that Genesis will only use «green» hydraulic fracturing fluids, will reveal the chemical makeup of those fluids and will inject a tracer along with those fluids so any alleged contamination in the area can be quickly linked to its source.

Lightfoot represented a number of manufacturers in the paper industry in a series of claims alleging dioxin contamination of major Alabama waterways.

Our lawyers have defended class actions and individual cases alleging personal injury and property damage from environmental contamination or exposure to chemical products based on all types of legal theories, including negligence, fraud, failure to warn, negligent misrepresentation, trespass, private and public nuisance and damage claims such as «fear of cancer» and medical monitoring.

In a complex products liability action involving alleged PCB contamination of a state office building, the Appellate Practice Group joined forces with litigation counsel to convert a $ 60 million judgment to a defense verdict for a large, multinational company.

The plaintiff had alleged that the defendant was responsible for the contamination of the property which it had recently purchased.

Smith v. Inco, 2011 ONCA 628, was a class action by thousands of Port Colborne residents who alleged loss in property value due to public concern about potential health risks from nickel contamination on their property.

He also represents clients in environmental litigation, including class action suits alleging ground water contamination and landfill suits alleging improper acceptance, classification and disposal of liquid wastes.

Defense of a manufacturer in medical monitoring and property damage claims arising out of alleged environmental solvent contamination in groundwater in Pennsylvania.

Defense of a chemical manufacturer in mass action claims for medical monitoring, property damage and personal injury arising out of alleged environmental contamination in West Virginia.

Banga: multi-party Commercial Court action arising out of alleged vapour phase contamination of gasoil cargo raising technical issues as to mechanism, seaworthiness and due diligence.

Our team is experienced in underground storage tank regulation and litigation of actions brought pursuant to California Proposition 65, the Federal Clean Water Act and various state environmental laws and tort doctrines, including actions alleging contamination, product defect and failure to warn regarding methyl tertiary butyl ether («MTBE»).

He has litigated a broad range of issues, including Federal preemption; electrocution injuries; failure to warn and design defect; the admissibility of economic testimony; price - fixing and essential facilities; groundwater contamination; primary and exclusive administrative jurisdiction; alleged asbestos exposure; the extraterritorial application of Federal and state law, and the certification and decertification of consumer class actions.

Commercial Court litigation concerning the origins of contamination to a fuel oil cargo said to have been loaded in good order and condition and alleged to have left a residue.

Venezia v. Coldwell Banker Sammis Realty (270 A.D. 2d 480)- buyer's action against seller for fraud for failing to disclose toxic contamination of untapped ground water beneath the property and surrounding area dismissed; cause of action against brokers severed; buyer's claim of fraud against seller was extinguished upon closing as a result of specific merger clause in contract of sale; moreover, buyer's failed to allege that seller made any representation about the condition of the land's subsurface or groundwater and did not allege that seller engaged in concealment or otherwise deceitful conduct designed to prevent the discovery of such contamination; seller is under no duty to speak; salesperson of one of the defendant real estate agencies represented to buyer that the house was in good condition