067 - How Mineral Rights Can Kill Data Center and Solar Deals with Micah Hinton
Your data center or solar project can clear engineering, financing, and permitting, and still get stopped by a mineral owner nobody accounted for. The mineral estate doesn't disappear because the site will hold servers or panels instead of a wellbore, and most developers don't find out until it's expensive to fix.
Micah Hinton is a land manager at TotalEnergies and president of the Austin Professional Landmen's Association. He joins Brent and Natalie to talk about how mineral rights get evaluated across data center, solar, wind and battery storage projects. They cover what a renewables report…
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