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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by arethuza on Monday April 08, 2019 @09:13AM (#19604838)
"In general mineral rights in Australia are reserved to the Crown"

https://www.austrade.gov.au/land-tenure/Land-tenure/mining-a...

Which seems as complex as you might expect for something based on similar UK laws:

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsUK/planning/legislation/mineral...

NB I've thought for a while that land 'ownership' is a slightly odd concept - not helped by being in Scotland where land ownership has had over a thousand years to get in a nice mess.

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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by vaughnegut on Monday April 08, 2019 @12:07PM (#19606454)
Would have a link or something to look up about Scotland's land rights being a mess? I realize I'm veering a little off topic here, but I'd be curious to learn more. I'd never heard that before
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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil by arethuza on Monday April 08, 2019 @12:19PM (#19606569)
I can recommend this book if you are are really interested:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14614429-the-poor-had-no...

This Guardian article gives you a flavour of some of the issues:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/10/scotland-lan...

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