Landowner Guides

Your Land, Your Rights (Montana) by the Northern Plains Resource Council

Your Land, Your Rights (Colorado) by the Western Colorado Congress

A Landowner Guide to the Wyoming Split Estate Statute by the Powder River Basin Resource Council

Oil and Gas at Your Door by the Oil and Gas Accountability Project

Other Resources

Filling the Gaps: How to Improve Oil and Gas Reclamation

Law and Order in the Oil and Gas Fields

Doing it Right

 

Take Action

Contact your Senators and urge them to support federal legislation that would require

  • Notification of landowners before the government leases the oil and gas out from underneath them.
  • Negotiation between the energy company and the landowner to find the least intrusive ways to develop oil and gas located under the property owner’s land.
  • Fair compensation to the landowner for damages to his or her land.

Visit WORC’s Protect Property Rights Action Page to send a message to your Senators.
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Based in Billings, Montana, the Western Organization of Resource Councils is a network of conservation and family agriculture organizations in Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, and Wyoming.