ELR Citation: ELR 21648
No(s). 95-6095, -6118 (10th Cir. Aug 1, 1996)

The court holds that a natural gas company must indemnify the owner of a ruptured pipeline for 50 percent of the costs it incurred cleaning up surrounding soil and groundwater and paying third-party damages to nearby property owners. Two years after the owner of the ruptured pipeline installed it, t...