Originally posted by oneoff
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free hold revenues only apply to a small number of minerals. Most are held by the provincial governments. Surface leases are insignificant income for most farms considering the nuisance, capital loss and crop loss and the potential long term contamination and lost productivity.
As I have said before the value of food producing land is much higher than the value of any oil that will be extracted below the surface. Because food production will have to be sustained for thousands of years as long as humans inhabit the planet.
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