Gage Zobell

Gage helps clients acquire, develop, and operate their agricultural, natural resource, and renewable energy projects.

Gage focuses primarily on natural resource, agricultural, and renewable energy development. He regularly assists oil & gas, mining, renewable energy, and agricultural clients with acquisition and divestiture, project development, permitting, and operating their projects.

Gage enjoys partnering with his clients from the onset of pre-project planning and design, through community outreach and land-use planning, to project development and permitting, and into end-of-life planning and divestiture. He regularly reviews project development plans, surveys, and title insurance commitments, and assists with local land-use planning and title review, due diligence, and curative. Gage assists in project development by helping clients navigate, among other issues, NHPA Section 106 consultations, BLM and USFS land access and approvals, and coordinating land use permitting with state and local agencies.

In addition, Gage maintains an active water law practice throughout the Intermountain West. He assists oil & gas, mining, agricultural, and renewable energy companies in due diligence, acquiring, permitting, and defending water assets. His varied water law practice includes permitting saltwater disposal wells, defending water rights through basin adjudications, and representing clients before state agencies in change of use applications. Gage also regularly assists client in acquiring and divesting of water assets through negotiating and drafting water supply agreements, municipal water contracts, water leases, options, and purchase and sale agreements.