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All or Nothing: Regulators Strictly Define Pipeline Abandonment

The Energy Law

Parts 192 and 195 (2016). In both cases, the prior owner or operator allegedly had not followed the proper procedure for abandoning a pipeline, specifically regarding purging the pipeline of hazardous material. Each status invokes a certain procedure for safety and maintenance of the pipelines by the owner or operator.

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Louisiana’s Sabine River Authority Not Entitled To Sovereign Immunity

The Energy Law

Plaintiffs alleged that despite advance knowledge of the likelihood for significant downstream flooding, SRA-L decided to open spillway gates freeing water from the reservoir into the Sabine River to alleviate elevated reservoir volumes from a cataclysmic rain storm in March of 2016.

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