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Halsbury's Laws of Canada - Oil and Gas, Special Edition
Author
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Michael A. Thackray
Written by one of Canada's most respected energy sector lawyers, the title Oil and Gas, Special Edition provides a concise, organized and informed narrative of the law that governs the ownership of, access to, and extraction of oil and natural gas in Canada.
Publication Language: English
Published: February 28, 2010
Publisher: LexisNexis Canada
The energy sector continues to be perhaps the major influence on both Canadian economic growth and national policy. From a legal perspective, the law governing oil and gas is diverse, and drawn from a wide variety of traditional legal disciplines, including torts, administrative law, contracts, securities, trusts, environmental law, commercial law, criminal law, and real property law.
Written by one of Canada's most respected energy sector lawyers, the title Oil and Gas, Special Edition provides a concise, organized and informed narrative of the law that governs the ownership of, access to, and extraction of oil and natural gas in Canada.
Topics covered include:
- The types, nature and contents of leases
- Operating procedures for joint ownership of resources
- Gross royalty trusts
- Federal and provincial agencies that regulate the sector
- Provincial licence transfer requirements
- Claims in negligence and nuisance
- Surface rights
- Purchase and sale of oil and gas interests
- Titles to land
- Royalties
I. Introduction to Canadian Oil and Gas Law
II. Mines and Mineral Ownership
III. The Leases
IV. Joint Ownership of Oil and Gas Interests
V. Gross Royalty Trusts
VI. Government Regulation
VII. Surface Matters
VIII. Buying and Selling Oil and Gas Interests
IX. Land Titles
X. Rights of First Refusal
XI. Royalty Agreements
