If you let people pump garbage water into the ground on your property, you deserve what comes back up. Unfortunately, subterranean water movement doesn't obey private property borders.
"Under split estate law, the surface owner must allow the mineral rights owner reasonable access. Protections for the surface owner vary; in some states an agreement is required that compensates them for the use of the land and reclaims the land after extraction is complete."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fracking_in_the_United_State...
I'll admit I'm not familiar with Texas but that doesn't seem right. Here in colorado, you're never forced to sell your mineral rights and let people on your land, but if your neighbors sell their mineral rights, and an oil field that is under your property is being drawn from, you will receive royalty checks, even if you'd rather the oil stay in the ground. But, no one can make you build an oil well on your land.
I can only imagine how upset an HOA would get if drilling operations were performed without an approved architectural modification request.
You are correct; if you own the surface and mineral rights you are not obligated to allow for any surface use. The thing you describe where someone drills on neighboring property and you are tagged along is called Force Pooling and is a much more complex topic.
You are not guaranteed to be force pooled -- if your neighbor has enough land to lease a full unit, it's conceivable that resources may still flow from your minerals towards the productive well without being compensated. It's usually in the landowners best interest to negotiate in good faith with a lessee than to be force pooled.
If you own only the surface rights to your land and someone else owns the subsurface minerals or a lease to the subsurface minerals you can absolutely be obligated to allow surface access for development and production under reasonable and usual terms for such.
You don't get to make choices in a vacuum.
> There’s nothing uncommon about a leaky old well. Many in West Texas were drilled during World War II and 80 years underground can do major damage to steel and concrete casing. Many of those wells were also flooded with water to squeeze out the last drops of oil.
FracTracker, West TX, Oil Wells (purple) https://i.imgur.com/PpPzDeM.png
From: https://ft.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?appi... (if you want to look at other areas)
With how many there are in West TX, I could almost believe the ground is collapsing. Drilled and vacuumed out so much, its like foam underneath. There's a known issue with sinkholes also.
https://blog.smu.edu/dedmancollege/2022/02/28/these-monstrou...