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Unlike landowners who don’t own the crude oil beneath their property, however, those who don't own their groundwater have no explicit protection from unfettered development under state law. That could change, with the Texas Supreme Court set to consider an appeal from a South Plains cattle and gaming ranch that sued the city of Lubbock for trying to expand an existing water well field on the 26,600-acre ranch. Throughout the case, lawyers for Coyote Lake Ranch have argued that a well-established provision in oil and gas law known as the "accommodation doctrine" should also apply to "severed" groundwater.
Visit http://www.texastribune.org/2015/10/14/high-court-poised-clarify-groundwater-query/ to view the full article online.
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