{"id":1515,"date":"2014-11-12T16:51:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T21:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2014-11-13T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T17:50:10","slug":"judge-rules-landowner-may-sue-govt-in-landmark-fracking-case-the-tyee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1515","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rules Landowner May Sue Gov&#8217;t in Landmark Fracking Case | The Tyee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2014\/11\/11\/Ernst-Fracking-Update\/\">Judge Rules Landowner May Sue Gov&#8217;t in Landmark Fracking Case | The Tyee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"first\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; color: #444444; padding-top: 10px;\">A landmark lawsuit that challenges the lax regulation of hydraulic fracturing in Canada has just scored a major victory.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; color: #444444;\">In a lengthy\u00a0<a style=\"color: #666600; text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #666600; padding-bottom: 1px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ernstversusencana.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014-11-07-Reasons-for-Judgment-of-Wittmann-CJ-re-Alberta-Environment-Motion-to-Strike-Ernst-lawsuit.pdf\">decision<\/a>, Alberta Chief Justice Neil Wittmann dismissed all key arguments made by the government of Alberta against the lawsuit of Jessica Ernst, including the fear that it may unleash a flood of lawsuits against a government that is heavily dependent on hydrocarbon revenue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; color: #444444;\">The Alberta government\u00a0<a style=\"color: #666600; text-decoration: none; font-style: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: #666600; padding-bottom: 1px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2014\/04\/18\/Anti-Fracking-Suit\/\">argued<\/a>\u00a0that Ernst&#8217;s $33-million lawsuit had no merit; that the government owed no duty of care to landowners with contaminated water; and that the government had statutory immunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; color: #444444;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Rules Landowner May Sue Gov&#8217;t in Landmark Fracking Case | The Tyee. A landmark lawsuit that challenges the lax regulation of hydraulic fracturing in Canada has just scored a major victory. In a lengthy\u00a0decision, Alberta Chief Justice Neil Wittmann dismissed all key arguments made by the government of Alberta against the lawsuit of Jessica [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1082,103,331,1083],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-fracking","tag-landowner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}