Can I sue the feds for obstructing my mineral development?
If a private land owner owns minerals (oil and gas) under a tract of land and the state (government) stops him from developing his private property, for whatever reason, you can sue and win. So while these offshore oil rights are owned by the government (the poeple) why can I not sue if they obstruct us from getting to our property?
Not to mention if we find more oil it would keep the economy afloat. I guess the politicans would rather force us to drive golf carts.
Openmind doesn’t know crap. Every state is different but we drill wells on people who have no interest in the mineral everyday. Screwing up an acre of surface and theres nothing they can do about it. The mineral estate is dominate to the surface. Look up the law goof ball.
April 17th, 2010 at 2:14 am
No you cannot! They are not yours, but all americans and the people will decide what to do with them. Also private land owners do not allways have the right to mine their lands, as mining and mineral development often result in ramifications and negative effects to that private land owners neighbor. You do not have a right to do whatever you want on private land if it affects others, as you do not have a right to negatively affect others.
April 17th, 2010 at 2:14 am
No one drives golf carts.
April 17th, 2010 at 2:14 am
Minerals?
No you don’t own that land. You can’t do whatever you want to government land. If that was the case we wouldn’t have state parks. Or imminent domain.
Also, finding some oil isn’t going to keep the economy afloat, especially not overnight.
April 17th, 2010 at 2:14 am
When the state prevents a private land owner from developing property, and the land owner sues and wins, the victory is premised on the law of eminent domain, that is, that people are entitled to compensation for a government taking of their personal property.
When the government owns land in its own name (as in the case of offshore property), there is no private owner whose land could be taken by failure to develop the property.
The law of eminent domain is premised on the idea that private land ownership and public land ownership are two different things. Your question overlooks this fact.
April 17th, 2010 at 2:14 am
Unfortunately it isn’t our property, it’s America’s property and Congress holds the key. ….and apparently they think everything is going just swell when, in fact, it’s going to h*ll.
Improve America, vote a democrat out of office this year.