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Jack R. Luellen Quoted in The Denver Gazette

Oil and gas company sues Colorado, argues $113 million remediation price tag is illegal

By: Scott Weiser

January 8, 2024

“This is one of those cases where the old axiom of bad facts sometimes makes bad law," he told The Denver Gazette. "One of the things that I think is at play here is the commission's thought, whether articulated or not, that Kaufmann is, for lack of a better term, a bad actor, and that in one way or another that has informed their position on some things in several ways.”

Luellen was alluding to a lawsuit filed by the company against the commission on March 2, 2023, protesting an order shutting down the company’s operations because of a dispute over contamination at a number of its wells, and, the commission said, the company’s “historic, persistent, and consistent lack of compliance.”

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