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Protect your land, livelihood, and legacy

Understanding your rights as a landowner.

It’s not uncommon for government agencies or private companies to force their hand on landowners. Whether it’s a transmission line, pipeline construction, or highway acquisition, these types of projects can cause significant interference with your land. Stringam will advocate on your behalf, protecting your rights as a landowner.

Services We Offer

We offer a variety of services relating to the protection of your land.
  • Negotiating Surface Lease
  • Negotiating Pipeline Right-of-Way Agreements
  • Negotiating Power Line Agreements
  • Renegotiating Current Lease Rates

How our surface rights lawyers can help

Whether you’re being approached by a land agent or you have an existing surface rights agreement – our surface rights lawyers will fight for your rights, ensuring you are fairly compensated. Here are some advantages of working with Stringam:

  • Receive fair compensation from the company, operators, or the government
  • Professional assessment on how a project will affect your land
  • Protect your rights through a Right-of-Entry Order
  • Get better rates through renegotiations of your current leases
  • Ensure your legal fees are covered by the company or government agency

Our Experience

Stringam’s surface rights lawyers have extensive experience representing landowners across Western Canada. We’ve partaken in numerous negotiations and renegotiations, ensuring fair compensation for landowners. Our lawyers have dealt with cases involving the Surface Rights Board, guiding our clients through the process with assertive  representation.

Meet the Team

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  • Beaverlodge
  • Grande Prairie
  • Partners
  • Associates
  • Lethbridge
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  • All
  • Beaverlodge
  • Grande Prairie
  • Partners
  • Associates
  • Lethbridge
  • Support
Suzanne Smith Lawyer headshot
SUZANNE SMITH
  • Surface Rights Coordinator
STEVEN G. OSMOND
  • Lawyer
Patrice Brideau Lawyer headshot
PATRICE BRIDEAU
  • Partner, Lawyer, Avocat
Surface Rights

How Comparable Surface Rights Agreements Help to Determine the Proper Level of Compensation

Before I start to explain how comparable agreements can help to determine the proper level of compensation a landowner is
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16 Reasons Why a Right-of-Entry Order is Better than a Surface Lease or Easement

Once an agreement on location and compensation is reached with the operator, I advise my clients that a Right-of-Entry Order

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