CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY v. THOMPSON

No. 86 CA 0654.

510 So.2d 755 (1987)

CALCASIEU PARISH POLICE JURY v. Herbert W. THOMPSON, Assistant Secretary and Commissioner, Louisiana Office of Conservation.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 31, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester A. Robertson, Lake Charles, for plaintiff-appellant Calcasieu Parish Police Jury.

Raymond L. Brown, Jr., Baton Rouge, or Eunice, for defendant-appellee Herbert W. Thompson, Asst. Secretary and Comm'r, Louisiana Office of Conversation.

Samuel O. Buckley, III, New Orleans, for intervenors-appellees BFI and CECOS.

Before LOTTINGER, SHORTESS and CARTER, JJ.


SHORTESS, Judge.

In 1975, Browning-Ferris Industries Chemical Services, Inc., (BFI) initiated procedures to convert a well, originally drilled to produce oil or gas, for use as a hazardous waste disposal well. BFI received what it contends was a proper permit and began operations. In 1985 the Legislature amended LSA-R.S. 30:4.1 C to provide that no new permits for previously unpermitted hazardous waste disposal wells were to be issued. The amendment became effective...

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