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Underground salt caverns are commonly used for the storage of liquids including liquefied hydrocarbons. These caverns are created by solution mining of salt from inside underground salt...
Case law has been unsettled on ownership of the storage rights associated with underground salt caverns. In Myers Woodward v. Underground Servs. Markham, the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals held the surface owner owns the subsurface of the property including salt mining caverns.
Businessman Michael Angelo Padron, 62, faces up to five years in prison on the conspiracy charge and up to 20 years on each wire fraud count.
The alleged conspiracy lasted more than a decade and resulted in a S.A. construction company receiving contracts intended for service-disabled vets.