Federal Judge Tosses Property Owner’s Claims Against United States, Oil Company

(February 13, 2017, 10:56 AM EST) -- TULSA, Okla. — A property owner on an Oklahoma Indian reservation cannot pursue claims that the federal government violated environmental law when it approved hydraulic fracturing oil leases for the land because he did not exhaust his administrative remedies, an Oklahoma federal judge ruled Feb. 9 (Lyman Gilbert Lenker v. Kevin Haugrud, et al., No. 16-cv-0532, N.D. Okla., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18473)....