Union Pacific and a Louisiana drilling company take the tension between surface and mineral rights to extremes

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(AP Photo: Union Pacific) On a Pointe Coupee plantation rich with Louisiana history, the nation’s largest railroad is doing battle with a local oil exploration company ominously named WarHorse. Their dispute is a disconcerting reminder of what can happen when different parties own surface and mineral rights. The tale begins on the 2,450-acre Kenmore Plantation in

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