Parties Debate Fracking Fluid, Injection Well Contamination Case In 8th Circuit

(January 6, 2017, 3:42 PM EST) -- ST. LOUIS — Attorneys for a landowner couple and a hydraulic fracturing company on Dec. 14 debated before the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals whether a district court judge properly dismissed the couple’s lawsuit, which alleges that hydraulic fracturing waste fluids that were injected into a disposal well on their neighbor’s property have migrated onto their land (Dale Stroud, et al. v. Southwestern Energy Company, et al., No. 15-3458, 8th Cir.)....

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