Uhh--look at the picture. Nobody built those homes 50 feet from an existing well. They built a neighborhood, yes, in a gas field (gasp), and then oil companies started drilling hundreds of new wells practically in their backyards, subjecting them to endless noise and dangerous chemicals. 

Owning mineral rights should not give you the right to poison your neighbors. Want that right? Buy the land too. But this state is so awash in oil and gas money that our regulators serve the interest of the industry they are supposed to regulate.