I'm no fan of either side but the owners of the mineral rights usurp the top side owners. There are state agencies in place to regulate the extraction.
I have to ask...
Can you explain your comment about mineral rights owners usurping surface owners? The connotation of what you wrote is extremely misleading, and I figure I better ask what you mean before I ramble on about how that whole relationship actually works.
Living the fall of an empire sucks!
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