EDIT: It’s Aroostook County, ME. I haven’t bought the house yet, mainly because of this nonsense.
You might ask a local lawyer who knows your rights, not international nerds at Lemmy.
As an international Lemmy user, my biased, uninformed, misguided and objectively wrong perception is that Americans solve these things with guns.
Source: Never been to USA, but I’ve seen lots of Hollywood action movies produced in the 80s and 90s.
problem with solving things with guns is that you will just be outgunned if you have to hold ground.
Don’t buy land with an easement you don’t want on it. You can tell the seller to talk to the company and have them negotiate the removal of the easement as a condition of sale. They might be willing to buy back the mineral rights.
But barring that if this is a non-negotiable for you don’t buy it.
Lol I love how you gradually gave up on censoring the company name
Knowing your state/municipality would probably help, but as someone whose family member was involved in a similar situation, there’s literally nothing you can do. And for that matter, if you do anything in developing that land that might impact the mining company’s access, you’re going to be paying for those damages, too.
