There are a few different strategies to manage legal risks for both the plaintiffs and the defendants. In terms of the plaintiffs, they could have installed a natural gas detector that could have possibly alerted them to the natural gas leak that was happening at the Oldershaw property. The plaintiffs should have also considered all options before buying a property at the lake. They could have found a property in an area with increased soil stability, or bought a property somewhere other than the lake that doesn’t have this type of problem. To minimize legal risks, SaskEnergy should have been checking the natural gas lines in a more consistent manner due to the number of water line breaks that happened throughout Regina Beach. SaskEnergy
