by David Ganje | Feb 19, 2019 | Mineral & Mining Law, Mineral & Mining Law, North Dakota Mineral Interests
A recent South Dakota Supreme Court decision, Holsti v. Kimber, has shed light on two areas of the dormant mineral act, previously untouched by South Dakota’s highest court: first, what constitutes “use” and “nonuse” of a mineral interest in order for a claimant to...
by David Ganje | May 17, 2016 | Bakken Development, Environmental Litigation, Infrastructure Security, Mineral & Mining Law, Mineral Rights, Natural Resources Litigation, North Dakota Environmental Law, North Dakota Law, North Dakota Oil & Gas, North Dakota Oil & Gas Law, Pipelines
Pipelines, even privately owned, are a publically regulated transportation and operating system. The question is not whether pipelines are “essential to our society.” Pipelines are already integral to the country: the US had over 1,700,000 miles of oil and gas...
by David Ganje | Jan 27, 2016 | Bakken Development, Dormant Mineral Rights, Lost Mineral Interests, Mineral & Mining Law, Mineral Interests, Mineral Rights, North Dakota Environmental Law, North Dakota Law, North Dakota Mineral Interests, North Dakota Oil & Gas, North Dakota Oil & Gas Law
In North Dakota one can give legal notice by mail to a deceased individual, even though he long ago went to that great oil patch in the sky. It is something out of a Charles Dicken’s novel. You can communicate and give notice to the dead. A landowner seeking to claim...
by David Ganje | Oct 2, 2014 | Lost Mineral Interests, Management of Water Systems, Managment of Water Rights, Mineral & Mining Law, Mineral Interests, Mineral Rights, Natural Resources Litigation, North Dakota Law, North Dakota Mineral Interests, Real Estate Law, Water Rights
Full property disclosure laws are needed in North Dakota. Current law does not require that the seller disclose information regarding mineral rights ownership at the time of a closing when selling real property. Mineral rights affect the sale of real estate and...
by David Ganje | Feb 16, 2014 | Mineral & Mining Law, North Dakota Law
NEW LEGISLATION FAVORABLY AFFECTS MINERAL INTEREST OWNERS Sometimes it actually happens. Sometimes new laws actually make things better. No law is perfect and most are problematic. Some however work to their purpose. A better method of transferring mineral...
