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Get Out From Under My Land! Hydraulic Fracturing, Forced Pooling Or Unitization, And The Role Of The Dissenting Landowner, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
Get Out From Under My Land! Hydraulic Fracturing, Forced Pooling Or Unitization, And The Role Of The Dissenting Landowner, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
This article addresses the legal circumstances arising when a state agency authorizes oil and gas production operations beneath a landowner’s land against that landowner’s wishes. One might assume that, if a landowner wants to preserve his or her land from oil and gas development, the landowner could simply refuse to allow drilling to occur beneath the land. However, neighbors may want to develop the oil and gas resources beneath their own land. To satisfy the neighbors’ wishes, an oil and gas producer must assemble mineral production rights on or beneath enough contiguous land to satisfy state spacing and acreage requirements …
Earthquakes In The Oilpatch: The Regulatory And Legal Issues Arising Out Of Oil And Gas Operation Induced Seismicity, Monika U. Ehrman
Earthquakes In The Oilpatch: The Regulatory And Legal Issues Arising Out Of Oil And Gas Operation Induced Seismicity, Monika U. Ehrman
Georgia State University Law Review
This article reviews the scientific theories and studies regarding induced seismicity, in addition to examining the current regulatory framework and litigation arising out of these seismic events. Lastly, it provides strategies to aid stakeholders and identifies challenges likely to arise in the future.
Part I of this Article provides a review of the geoscience theories regarding natural and induced seismicity. Part II reviews the current scientific literature regarding a possible relationship between certain oil and gas operations and induced seismicity. Part III reviews the existing regulatory structure addressing seismicity in affected states, including possible applicable environmental legislation. Part IV discusses …
Citizens, Town Councils, And Landowners: The Complex Web Of Rights And Decision-Making In Shale Oil And Gas Development, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
Citizens, Town Councils, And Landowners: The Complex Web Of Rights And Decision-Making In Shale Oil And Gas Development, Heidi Gorovitz Robertson
Law Faculty Articles and Essays
Robertson's piece focuses on the role of local governments operating within a larger legal system and how they might control or influence shale oil and gas activities within their communities.
Fixed Vs.Floating Non-Participating Oil & Gas Royalty In Texas: And The Battles Rage On . . ., Christopher S. Kulander
Fixed Vs.Floating Non-Participating Oil & Gas Royalty In Texas: And The Battles Rage On . . ., Christopher S. Kulander
Texas A&M Law Review
The author discusses fixed and floating non-participating oil and gas royalty in Texas and concludes that royalty cases will continue to be heard by the courts.
Partition Of Oil And Gas Interests And The Effect On Mineral Rights Of Surface Partition, Thomas L. Shaffer
Partition Of Oil And Gas Interests And The Effect On Mineral Rights Of Surface Partition, Thomas L. Shaffer
Thomas L. Shaffer
No abstract provided.
Top Leases And The Rule Against Perpetuities, J. Suzanne Hill
Top Leases And The Rule Against Perpetuities, J. Suzanne Hill
Pepperdine Law Review
The competition for oil and gas leases has resulted in an increase in the use of top leases to secure oil and gas leasehold estates. Top leases which are found to violate the Rule against Perpetuities could result in the loss of millions of dollars to the lessee. The author examines top leasing in light of the Rule against Perpetuities and concludes that absent a savings clause, such leases violate the Rule. A savings clause is proposed which would save an otherwise invalid lease thereby circumventing the harsh application of the Rule.
Slides: The Future Of Oil And Gas Development On Federal Lands, Mike Chiropolos
Slides: The Future Of Oil And Gas Development On Federal Lands, Mike Chiropolos
The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
Presenter: Mike Chiropolos, Lands Program Director, Western Resource Advocates
44 slides
The Future Of Mineral Development On Federal Lands In The United States, John D. Leshy
The Future Of Mineral Development On Federal Lands In The United States, John D. Leshy
The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
11 pages.
Includes bibliographical references
"Outline of presentation of John D. Leshy, Harry D. Sunderland Distinguished Professor, U.C. Hastings College of the Law, Natural Resources Law center, June 7, 2007" (pp. 3-5)
"Leshy draft 4.27.07 For Natural Resources Law Center" (pp. 6-13)
Agenda: The Future Of Natural Resources Law And Policy, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
Agenda: The Future Of Natural Resources Law And Policy, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
The Future of Natural Resources Law and Policy (Summer Conference, June 6-8)
The Natural Resources Law Center's 25th Anniversary Conference and Natural Resources Law Teachers 14th Biennial Institute provided an opportunity for some of the best natural resources lawyers to discuss future trends in the field. The conference focused on the larger, cross-cutting issues affecting natural resources policy. Initial discussions concerned the declining role of scientific resource management due to the increased inclusion of economic-cost benefit analysis and public participation in the decision-making process. The effectiveness of this approach was questioned particularly in the case of non-market goods such as the polar bear. Other participants promoted the importance of public participation and …
Agenda: Natural Resource Development In Indian Country, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: Natural Resource Development In Indian Country, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Natural Resource Development in Indian Country (Summer Conference, June 8-10)
Conference organizers and/or faculty included University of Colorado School of Law professors David H. Getches, Charles F. Wilkinson, Lawrence J. MacDonnell and Richard B. Collins.
Indian reservations constitute about 2.5% of all land in the country and 5% of all land in the American West. During the last two decades, Indian natural resources issues have moved to the forefront as tribal governments have dramatically expanded their regulatory programs, judicial systems. and resource development activities. This major symposium will address current developments and assess likely future directions in the areas of tribal, federal, and state regulation; tribal-state intergovernmental agreements; financing; mineral …
Agenda: Public Lands Mineral Leasing: Issues And Directions, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Agenda: Public Lands Mineral Leasing: Issues And Directions, University Of Colorado Boulder. Natural Resources Law Center
Public Lands Mineral Leasing: Issues and Directions (Summer Conference, June 10-11)
University of Colorado School of Law professor Lawrence J. MacDonnell served as the conference organizer and as a member of the faculty.
Federal leasing programs, especially for oil and gas and coal, have been undergoing important changes in recent years. This conference will provide an overview and an update for those involved in public lands mineral development. Significant new issues also will be addressed.
Partition Of Oil And Gas Interests And The Effect On Mineral Rights Of Surface Partition, Thomas L. Shaffer
Partition Of Oil And Gas Interests And The Effect On Mineral Rights Of Surface Partition, Thomas L. Shaffer
Journal Articles
Interests in oil and gas in place are of three kinds: ownership of minerals independent of surface ownership, royalty interests, and "working" or leasehold interests. All three are forms of property, susceptible of ownership by cotenants, and cotenancies of the first and third categories are at least theoretically open to actions for partition.
Partition of interests in oil and gas raises practical legal difficulties in three areas: (1) How does mineral ownership fit into the statutory partition scheme? (Each of the nation's fifty states has a statute concerning partition of either realty or personalty or both.) (2) How is a …
The Rule Against Perpetuities And Typical Oil And Gas Leases, David R. Macdonald S.Ed.
The Rule Against Perpetuities And Typical Oil And Gas Leases, David R. Macdonald S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
This comment is concerned with the examination of various methods of creating future interests in gas and oil and the effect of the rule against perpetuities on these interests.
On Leasing Gas From Coal Seams, C. C. Williams Jr.
On Leasing Gas From Coal Seams, C. C. Williams Jr.
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.