article_snippet.sent: The Government owns the land under your house – meaning homeowners have no right to any oil found beneath homeowners.
article_snippet.sent: Once oil has been found, oil companies pay The Government for an annual licence which gives oil companies the right to excavate oil and keep the profits.
article_snippet.sent: The Government also gains money from the tax
article_snippet.sent: The Government receives on oil.
article_snippet.sent: The only way an oil company would pay the surface landowner is if the surface landowner wanted to base the surface landowner drilling site on The only way an oil company would pay the surface landowner land.