Legal Opinion
Flint Hills Resources Alaska, LLC v. Williams Alaska Petroleum, Inc.
Alaska Supreme Court
Decided August 26, 2016No. 7124 S-15654PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STOWERS, Chief Justice. -
I. INTRODUCTION
Williams Alaska Petroleum owned the North Pole refinery until 2004. Willlams knew that the then-unregulated chemical sul-folane, a solvent, was present in refinery property groundwater, but it did not know that the sulfolane had migrated off the refinery property via underground water flow.
Flint Hills Resources Alaska bought the North Pole refinery from Williams in 2004 pursuant to a contract that contained detailed terms regarding environmental lHabilities, indemnification, and damages caps. Almost immediately the Alaska Department of…
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