Rock Palmero III from TELS 2015 on the decades of litigation from LA oil and gas fields

one thing that's great on these cases oil companies record everything very nicely

and send it to the state
they also report when they really screw up

and they write it down


and the culture was at the time

we're going to write down that we screwed up here and caused a big probl

but it's not a big deal because nobody's going to come get us

we're not going to get in trouble about it
it's just an economic thing we're documenting


because we missed out on some oil.

we really didn't do any harm.


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18k barrls of brine cpacity, rediculous



se

made a mess, and didn't do anything to clean up, that's the case in most everycase our firms deals with

when it comes time to clean up
they first say

it wasn't us
if it was us, we didn't know, suit is too late
if it wasus, and you're on time, it didn't do any damage
no one is using the groundwater right now.

or you really can't prove it's our brine we can go back 1000s of years where there was a river with salt in it.