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Jury awards farming family $8.5 million in groundwater pollution case

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on June 8, 2009 at 6:33 am

From Bakersfield.com:

A jury awarded Starrh and Starrh Cotton Growers $8.5 million in its groundwater pollution lawsuit against Aera Energy LLC Friday, Starrh’s lawyer said.

That’s about $1.5 million more than a jury previously awarded the company. The award was re-tried.

“We had obviously sought a much larger number commensurate with the actual ‘benefit’ obtained by Aera by reason of its wrongful use of the subsurface beneath SSCG property for storage and disposal of produced water,” Starrh attorney Michael Stump said in an e-mail.

Aera’s spokeswoman couldn’t be reached Friday evening.

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June 8, 2009 · Filed Under Groundwater

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