TALLAHASSEE, Florida — The Louisiana company whose request to drill for oil along the Apalachicola River set off a political firestorm last year is taking its legal case to a state appeals court.
Details: Clearwater Land & Minerals filed a notice of appeal Tuesday challenging the state’s decision to deny an exploratory drilling permit in June after a state judge recommended against it in April.
The notice, filed with the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, doesn’t provide legal arguments backing the appeal. The company’s manager, Edward Campbell IV, and his attorney did not respond Wednesday to requests for comment.
But the company did tell the state Department of Environmental Protection in May the judge’s denial recommendation was “fundamentally flawed” on key issues.
