Question

Grey owns the surface rights for High Desert Ranch, which includes a house, a bunkhouse, and two barns. Industrial Mining Inc. owns the subsurface rights. When the company drills for and extracts the oil beneath the ranch, the surface subsides and the structures collapse. Most likely responsible for the damage is ___.

Answer 1

Industrial Mining

Step-by-step explanation:

Industrial Mining is the one who is responsible for the damage as the industrial mining is the company who owns the project for drilling in the surface rights and to extract the oil but due to drilling wrongly, it leads to the surface subsides and the structure collapsed where as the Grey is not responsible as it owns the surface rights for the High desert bunch comprise of bunk house and house.