When a property owner discovers that oil or natural gas exist beneath property for which a title has been legally and completely obtained, rights to the embedded minerals can be leased to others.
Clubs that have installed the latest types of artificial turf find the pitches to be not only considerably cheaper to maintain, but also as safe to play on as grass, and even safer in cold weather.
Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.
For years the natural gas drilling industry has decried the lack of data that could prove-or disprove-that drilling can cause drinking water contamination.