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New Amendment to Louisiana’s Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act Creates Expropriation Rights to Prohibit Drilling through Carbon Capture Storage Reservoirs in Caldwell Parish

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The amendment (Act 163 of 2022) was signed by Governor Edwards on May 26, 2022 and will become effective on August 1 st of this year. 3] Act 163 of 2022. [4] As currently written, the Act allows the project operator to expropriate the rights “necessary or useful” in constructing and operating the storage facility. [1]

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DOI Regulatory Agenda Includes BSEE Rulemakings on Decommissioning and Bonding for Civil Penalty Appeals

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However, on July 7, 2022, in Petro Ventures, Inc. BSEE’s 2024 decommissioning rule would update 30 C.F.R. The agency intended the bonding requirement to be a jurisdictional precondition for maintaining a civil penalty appeal with the DOI’s Interior Board of Land Appeals (“IBLA”). 2020-48), the IBLA held the current version of 30 C.F.R.

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Renewable Energy Efforts Highlighted in Draft Plan to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Louisiana

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After additional rounds of feedback from the Task Force and the public, some actions may be added, deleted, or revised prior to the release of the draft Climate Action Plan later this year and the Final Report in February 2022. The Draft Portfolio contains 29 strategies, with various amounts of specific actions to carry out each strategy.

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