Reply #9: And West Virginia also has land rights that apply only to the surface, not to the coal. [View All]

[Rabrrrrrr]

The companies own all the coal, so no matter how many millions of tons someone's land might be on top of, they get nothing in terms of mineral rights; nor do they even have the right to stop the coal companies from mining coal underneath their land.

I don't know if other coal mining states did the same thing, but I have a feeling they probably didn't - other states didn't have the level of criminal corporate/government incest that West Virginia had and still has.