Two unusual cases have recently been decided by the El Paso Court of Appeals, both arising out of the same underlying facts. Both deal with a tax foreclosure on royalty interests. In the late 1990s an attorney and two mineral buyers got together and proposed to taxing districts to handle tax foreclosure suits for delinquent […]
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Warren Buffett group lobbying Texas lawmakers for deal to build $8 billion worth of power plants for emergency use (from Texas Tribune)
The following article appeared today in The Texas Tribune: Cassandra Pollock The Texas Tribune Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:01:53 -0500 Warren Buffett group lobbying Texas lawmakers for deal to build $8 billion worth of power plants for emergency use was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — […]
Due Process and the No-Extrinsic-Evidence Rule: Challenges to Default Judgments When Service Was By Publication
Governmental entities in Texas like school districts, municipalities, hospital districts, and counties rely heavily on property taxes to finance their operations. Mineral interests are real property interests, and when a producing well is drilled the owners of rights to production from the well, both the working interest and the royalty owners, are subject to being […]
More Focus on Environmental Consequences of Methane Emissions
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation has funded research resulting in a report, “Emissions in the Stream: Estimating the Greenhouse Gas Impacts of an Oil and Gas Boom,” by to professors at UT Austin. The report focuses on downstream sources of methane emissions, and will be followed by a report examining policy and technology solutions […]
Lawrence Wright, “The Dark Bounty of Texas Oil”
Native Texan and Austinite Lawrence Wright, longtime journalist and Reporter at Large at the New Yorker, has written about Texas’ love affair with and dependence on oil, in the January 1 issue of the New Yorker. “The Dark Bounty of Texas Oil” is a 10,000-foot flyover of Texas’ oil business, from Spindletop to the Permian […]
EPA Proposes Additional Regulations to Limit Emissions of Methane and VOC’s
Big news this week about the Environmental Protection Agency’s new proposed regulations to limit emissions of methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from oil and gas drilling, operating, compression and processing facilities. EPA’s proposed new rules can be viewed here. Among other things, the proposed regs would require operators to use “green completion” technology in […]
Plaintiffs’ Attorney Windle Turley Enters Fray on Barnett Shale Groundwater Contamination
Dallas attorney Windle Turley has filed three lawsuits in federal court in Dallas on behalf of landowners alleging contamination of their groundwater by Barnett Shale Wells: one on behalf of Jim and Linda Scoma of Johnson County, against Chesapeake, filed last June; one on behalf of Doug and Diana Harris, against Devon Energy, and one on behalf of […]