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In The News...interesting articles from over the years
 
REDEFINING THE RANCH - WETLAND RANCHERS
Excerpt taken from "Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine" 
Brush Control and other strategies reap numerous benefits for wildlife, springs and the city folk who live downstream.  A TLMA member is interviewed.  (read the entire story)
  
BAD NEWS FOR LANDOWNERS – YOUR LAND CAN BE TAKEN!   

The Supreme Court in a 5 to 4 decision has given authorization to local governments to seize homes and businesses for economic development purposes ...  The Texas Legislature appears eager to address this issue as several different measures have been filed this special session, ... (read the entire story)

  
HOLES: TEXAS FUND HELPS PLUG ABANDONED OIL WELLS  

Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Monthly Newsletter "Fiscal Notes."  
Texas is home to more than 355,000 oil and natural gas wells. More then 15,000 of those are inactive wells--some of them sitting idle for more than 20 years--classified as "orphaned" by the Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) and subject to plugging by the RRC using funds from the state's Oil Field Cleanup Fund (OFCF).  (read the entire story)

  
OIL PLAY: SURFACE VERSUS MINERAL
MINERAL OWNERS CALL THE SHOTS
 
Texas Farm Bureau article in Texas Agriculture
...What about the surface owners who do not own the minerals under their land? What are their rights under Texas law?... (read the entire story)
  
NEW INACTIVE WELL FEE PROPOSAL  

Proposed New §85.2022 in Nat. Res. Code  
To encourage operators to plug their inactive wells after they have been inactive for an extended period of time, a new fee is proposed to be assessed at the time of each operator’s annual renewal.  (read the entire story)

  
ON A COLLISION COURSE  

Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association's article in "The Cattleman" magazine on the struggles of Texas' farmers and ranchers to protect their groundwater. 
At the turn of the 20th century, the lid literally blew off the nation’s fledgling oil and gas industry with the drilling of Spindletop. On January 10, 1901, from the depths of a salt dome formation near Beaumont, Texas, crude oil spewed skyward with unprecedented force, birthing both high-rolling wildcatters and giant companies with household names like Texaco, Humble and Exxon.
(read the entire story)

 
 
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