CHAPTER 10 ESCAPE OF WATER DURING OPERATIONS: ENFORCEMENT AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS

• Jurisdiction: United States

Water Acquisition and Management for Oil & Gas Development
(Apr 2016)
CHAPTER 10
ESCAPE OF WATER DURING OPERATIONS: ENFORCEMENT AND ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Christopher S. Kulander
Moderator:
Director
Oil & Gas Law Institute, South Texas College of Law
Houston, TX
Barbara D. Little
Panelists:
Of Counsel
Jackson Kelly PLLC
Charleston, WV
Mary Viviano
General Counsel
Vantage Energy
Englewood, CO
Heidi K. Ruckriegle
Associate
Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley, P.C.
Denver, CO

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CHRISTOPHER S. KULANDER joined the South Texas College of Law in August 2014 as Professor and Director of the school's new Oil & Gas Law Institute. At South Texas, he teaches courses covering oil & gas, energy, and property law. He is also Of Counsel to Haynes and Boone, L.L.P. in Houston, Texas. He received his J.D. from the University of Oklahoma, where he was managing editor for the Oklahoma Bar Mineral Law Newsletter, note editor and assisting managing editor for the American Indian Law Review, and research assistant for Owen L. Anderson, Eugene Kuntz Chair of Oil and Gas Law. Before teaching, Professor Kulander practiced full-time for four years in the Houston office of Haynes and Boone LLP within the Energy Practice Group, focusing on energy lending, finance, and bankruptcy. Prior to that, he practiced for two years with Cotton & Bledsoe in Midland, Texas, focusing on oil and gas title and leasing. Before law school, he received his B.S. and M.S. in geology from Wright State in Dayton, Ohio, and his Ph.D. in geophysics (petroleum seismology) from Texas A&M, after which he worked as a geophysicist for the U.S. Geological Survey. He has written and published in the fields of oil and gas law, land use control, and American Indian law, as well as in geology and petroleum seismology.

BARBARA D. LITTLE is Of Counsel with Jackson Kelly PLLC in Charleston, West Virginia. Ms. Little has extensive experience in all areas of environmental law, having represented industry both as in-house and outside counsel since 1975. She has extensive knowledge of Clean Water Act NPDES permitting and enforcement, spill reporting and response, and Corps of Engineers. §404 permitting for wetlands. She has decades of experience in permitting, compliance, and enforcement under the federal Clean Air Act--Prevention of Significant Deterioration and New Source Review, New Source Performance Standards, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, and National...