OIL AND GAS - Surface leases - Compensation

Law360 Canada ( October 9, 2018, 10:32 AM EDT) -- Appeal by Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) from a decision by the Saskatchewan Surface Rights Board of Arbitration in favour of the respondents, the Campbells, and their family-owned farming corporation. The parties entered negotiations in respect of a surface lease for a new wellsite on the respondents' property. The negotiations were unsuccessful, leading the appellant to seek and obtain a right of entry order. The appellant subsequently drilled five wells on 6.6 acres of the respondents' property. Following a compensation hearing, the Board ordered the appellant to pay the respondent approximately $28,000 for the surface rights it had acquired based upon the impact on land value, crop loss, severance, adverse effect and nuisance, and additional wells. CNRL obtained leave to appeal on five separate grounds....
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