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§681.1. Legislative findings
The Legislature of Louisiana hereby finds that:
(1)The state of Louisiana and the nation are rapidly depleting their reserves of oil
and natural gas upon which the United States as a whole is heavily dependent for its energy
requirements.
(2)States and the federal government are beginning to study the feasibility of
alternative energy supplies to supplement the declining oil and gas reserves.
(3)Preliminary studies by professional staffs at Louisiana universities and by private
firms within the state indicate that Louisiana may have within its borders uniquely large
reservoirs of superheated, highly pressurized water which may also be saturated with natural
gas in solution.
(4)These reservoirs can be a potential source of commercial quantities of energy in
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§681.1. Legislative findings
The Legislature of Louisiana hereby finds that:
(1) The state of Louisiana and the nation are rapidly depleting their reserves of oil
and natural gas upon which the United States as a whole is heavily dependent for its energy
requirements.
(2) States and the federal government are beginning to study the feasibility of
alternative energy supplies to supplement the declining oil and gas reserves.
(3) Preliminary studies by professional staffs at Louisiana universities and by private
firms within the state indicate that Louisiana may have within its borders uniquely large
reservoirs of superheated, highly pressurized water which may also be saturated with natural
gas in solution.
(4) These reservoirs can be a potential source of commercial quantities of energy in
the form of steam, hot water, and natural gas.
(5) Professional staffs at Louisiana State University have obtained a small grant from
the federal Energy Research and Development Administration to begin studies to determine
the location of commercial size reservoirs by utilizing the services of state geologists in the
Department of Conservation and Energy to examine and chart the massive numbers of well
logs available.
(6) Parallel research efforts should be instituted simultaneously with the above
mentioned study to tap known reservoirs to determine pressures, temperatures, and extent
of gas saturation as well as numerous other scientific experiments necessary to provide an
adequate basis from which to draw conclusions.
(7) Additionally, this potential energy resource opens a new area of legal
consequences which must be examined and a determination made of the ramifications and
effects of the development of this resource on private and public rights.
(8) By Act No. 16 of the 1973 Extraordinary Session of the Louisiana Legislature,
the Louisiana Legislature created the Louisiana Energy Commission and included in its
duties the authorization to undertake or contract for studies and research regarding alternate
fuel resources for the state; that the secretary, by Act 16, is authorized to prepare all
necessary studies on the sources of energy available to Louisiana and to conduct appropriate
research in connection therewith; and that the Department of Conservation and Energy is
staffed and administratively capable of exercising this authority.
(9) This Act is intended to provide the framework and guidelines for the state,
through the Department of Conservation and Energy, to begin a concerted effort to exploit
this potential geothermal and geopressure energy resource.
1 R.S. 30:681.