This is *so* counter to "american values" .. if there are any left!
Can people just drop by and say .. "Excuse me, I'm going to put a mine in your front yard!"??? -- Owen On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 8:28 PM, Pamela McCorduck <[email protected]> wrote: > Frank remembers Pennsylvania law correctly—but we had a very good lawyer > when we bought our Pittsburgh house, and he simply crossed out the clause > that said we didn’t own the mineral rights beneath our house, and made all > parties to the transaction initial it. He was actually a civil liberties > lawyer, but this tickled me much. Whether it would have held up in court > when Consolidated started to mine under our house, I have no idea. > > Pamela > > > On Feb 1, 2015, at 5:11 PM, Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> wrote: > > It was worse in Pittsburgh. I owned some land down in Torrance County, NM > from 1990 to 2000. The deed specified that I owned half the mineral > rights, as I recall. Pittsburgh has something called the “Pittsburgh Coal > Seam” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_coal_seam ) under it. You > can’t buy the mineral rights for any price as I understand it. You would > own a lot of coal if you could. Apparently the coal under the City won’t > be mined any time soon, however. > > Frank > > > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > [email protected] [email protected] > Phone: (505) 995-8715 Cell: (505) 670-9918 > > *From:* Friam [mailto:[email protected] > <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Owen Densmore > *Sent:* Sunday, February 01, 2015 10:35 AM > *To:* Complexity Coffee Group > *Subject:* [FRIAM] Don’t harm municipalities for regulating oil costs - > The Santa Fe New Mexican: My View > > Kim Sorvig, a long time Friamer, wrote this last week: > > http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/reader-view-don-t-harm-municipalities-for-regulating-oil-costs/article_0235a9bd-0f56-5610-8386-40efc6167e55.html?_dc=234697471139.95255 > > I just thought this might be an interesting conversation, especially for > those of us outside of New Mexico. Basically you don't own your property > completely, there is something called "Mineral Rights" .. which means you > don't own your property "all the way down" .. if its on top of oil, > uranium, etc .. the industries may have rights to that. Probably lost in > history but basically its a sorta "commons" argument .. but silly. > > -- Owen > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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