If you own freehold mineral rights in Canada, you are not alone!

Hundreds of thousands of individuals, who typically are the descendants of Canada’s initial settlers, own any oil or gas which may exist beneath farm-sized parcels of land in southern Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. These ‘freehold owners’ or ‘freeholders’ generally have no technical oil and gas or legal experience and find themselves at a tremendous disadvantage in their dealings with the oil companies that lease their mineral rights.

Freeholders own mineral rights with immense collective potential value. For instance, if individual freehold owners had received the same return on the approximately 6% of Alberta’s oil and gas that they own as the Alberta Government did on the 81% that the Province owns, individuals owning Alberta freehold mineral rights would have received approximately $525 million from their oil company-lessees in the year ending March 31, 2003.

Did you get your fair share?

Freeholders are not ‘lucky’ to own subsurface oil and gas rights. Our forefathers broke the land in harsh circumstances at the turn of the 20th century and earned the right to the minerals which we have inherited.

It is time we spoke with a common voice to protect our heritage!

This web site has been designed and is being maintained by volunteer members of the Freehold Petroleum & Natural Gas Owners Association (the Freehold Owners Association or FHOA) in an attempt to provide freeholders with information they can use to protect their valuable resources. The information provided is not meant to be a substitute for professional advice. The information is also not meant to be an indictment of the entire oil and gas industry. In FHOA’s opinion, most oil companies are good corporate citizens.

The information in this web site is not to be construed as legal advice. If this is your first time visiting the FHOA website, please click HERE.