Helman has covered the energy sector at Forbes for 20 years, profiling entrepreneurs and billionaires such as Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm and Ross Perot.
of publicly traded Comstock Resources decided to sell a small oilfield in the town of Laurel , Mississippi . It was a modest operation, decades past its heyday, with just a few dozen wells pumping out a thousand or so barrels per day. Dallas-based Comstock was eager to jettison the field.found was not pretty. “Housekeeping was poor at all the facilities within the Laurel field,” they wrote.
Their complaints became more strident in 2016 when Deidra Baucum, 61, went to see the doctor about a chronic sore throat only to be diagnosed with esophageal cancer. She had never been a smoker. An operation removed much of her windpipe, and her stomach now rests atop her right lung. She has to sleep sitting up. “Many times we could smell the material from the well site at our home,” recalls Deidra Baucum. “But we never thought it would be harmful.
If the Baucums win their case, other plaintiffs will follow. As we drive around their Laurel neighborhood, Marlan, 62, points out the homes of other cancer sufferers, living and dead. “We're only the first one. After we win, the floodgates are going to open,” he says.
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