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Who owns the mineral rights to CBM? Where there is a split title, who owns the CBM?

April 26, 2017CBM Mineral owns Rights Split title

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Who owns the mineral rights to CBM? Where there is a split title, who owns the CBM?

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• Provincial legislation (the Mines and Minerals Act and associated Regulations) is conclusive in determining the ownership of CBM where the Crown owns both coal and natural gas. However, in the instances of where coal rights are freehold owned and natural gas rights are Crown-owned, vice versa, or two separate freehold owners exist, the matter is to be determined and ruled on by the courts. For Crown-owned mineral rights, CBM is considered to be natural gas and is administered in the same manner as conventional gas.