Citadel Exploration has abandoned its legal challenge to San Benito County’s Measure J, a voter-sponsored initiative that banned several enhanced recovery methods of extracting oil and gas, including hydraulic fracturing and cyclic steaming. Citadel’s plan to develop oil wells in a remote area of San Benito County are currently undergoing environmental review, and it filed a lawsuit last month seeking $1.2 billion in damages. Its motives for abandoning the claim are not clear.
For more detail on the history of this legal challenge, see this March 3, 2015 blog post.
- Kathryn Oehlschlager
For more information, contact Kathryn Oehlschlager at klo@bctlaw.com or (415) 228-5458
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