The royalty rates paid by oil, gas and coal companies for the right to drill and mine on land owned by the public have not changed since 1920.

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    11 months ago

    That’s tough with the current supreme court - there’s a bunch of historical jurisprudence treating a drilling lease as a property right, so you need to pay the lessee to end the lease.s