Environmental & Energy
Mar. 20, 2014
Fracking ban will have consequences
A proposed ordinance in L.A., if drafted and adopted as currently approved, will have devastating effects on oil and gas production within city limits. By Jeffrey Dintzer and Matthew C. Wickersham
Jeffrey Dintzer
Partner
Alston & Bird LLP
333 S Hope St Ste 1600
Los Angeles , CA 90071
Phone: (213) 576-1063
Email: jeffrey.dintzer@alston.com
Boston University SOL; Boston MA
During over 30 years representing clients in complex environmental, toxic tort, and land use litigation, class actions, and administrative proceedings, he has been involved in precedent-setting cases affecting the way industries such as oil & gas do business in California.
On Feb. 28, the Los Angeles City Council approved a motion directing the city attorney to prepare an ordinance that will ban all oil and gas well stimulation activity, along with the use of waste disposal injection wells.
The city's motion is clearly intended to respond to the widespread controversy surrounding the practice of hydraulic fracturing, generated in response to the much more extensive use of high-volum...
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