Texas railroad commission. ..a tiny branch of the state bureaucracy. Got it.
You ain’t from Texas I see. They realistically wield more power than the Governor. And no. Denton won’t get to tell a property owner that they have just condemned their property rights. The state will protect the land owner. This isn’t a communal place.
That may be true, but protecting the landowner was not their reasoning. It seems to me from the article that the State controls all land in Texas ... and the mineral rights of private property owners.