YUMA PETROLEUM CO. v. THOMPSON

No. 96 CA 1840.

709 So.2d 824 (1998)

YUMA PETROLEUM COMPANY v. The Honorable Herbert W. THOMPSON, Commissioner of Conservation and Assistant Secretary of Conservation of the State of Louisiana.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 22, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Y. Pearce, III, New Orleans, for Plaintiff/Appellant Yuma Petroleum Company.

W. Stephen Walker, Baton Rouge, for Defendant/Appellee Ernest A. Burguieres (Successor of Herbert Thompson), Commissioner of Conservation and Assistant Secretary, Department of Natural Resources, State of Louisiana.

Before CARTER, LeBLANC, FOIL, WHIPPLE and PARRO, JJ.


LeBLANC, Judge.

Yuma Petroleum Company (Yuma) appeals from a district court judgment which affirmed an order of the Louisiana Commissioner of Conservation and Assistant Secretary, Office of Conservation of the State of Louisiana (Commissioner), ordering Yuma to investigate and submit for approval a plan to remediate a contaminated oilfield site.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Yuma, by instrument effective November 1, 1990, is the record owner...

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