Stan’s 84-year-old parents, Don and Shirley Ledgerwood, have watched oil companies drill multiple wells on their farm, where the family had grown crops and run cattle. The family received small royalty payments from the oil production.
Which still does not say that their parents let them. They received the royalty payments I’m assuming because the law about mineral rights requires the drillers to pay the land owners.
Nowhere in this article does it say they ever gave them permission. From what I understand their parents did not sell the mineral rights.
Can you please cite where it says or implies otherwise?