From the UK Financial...

From the UK Financial Times

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/fc38db6c-0a1a-11df-8b23-00144feabdc0.html

"People went to bed one night and woke up the next morning to find themselves rich" says McCoy. That included Mike Smith, whose land was so sought after that in May 2008, PetroHawk Energy, a small, independent oil and gas company, handed him a $1.4m signing bonus in return for permission to drill for natural gas on his late father's property. "It changed my whole life," he says. "I don't have to cut my trees any more."