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Many farmers in North Dakota can't prevent drillers from drilling — even if they'd like to. Decades ago, energy companies bought "mineral rights" to the land below those farms — so the companies can move in, create drilling pads where they please, move in trucks and workers, without the farmers' consent.
Huh that reminds me, when the family sold the farm 50-ish years ago now we kept those "mineral rights" and sold the land.
Drill baby drill.