Ward v. Commonwealth

HUDDLESTON, Judge.

This appeal challenges a summary judgment which assessed civil penalties against the operators of nine oil leases in Ohio County for fifty-eight violations of the environmental protection provisions of Chapter 224 of the Kentucky Revised Statutes and which ordered them to bring the leases into compliance with the requirements of that chapter and regulations promulgated pursuant to KRS 224.017.

The appellants, Hugh B. Ward, Sr.1 and Hugh B. Ward, Jr. first contend that sum*590mary judgment was prematurely granted in the absence of a showing by the Natural Resources and…