35 Burst results for "Chevron"
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Minnesota Lt. Gov.: Good Parenting Is Accepting Kids' Sexual Identity
"Governor says you, parent, you have a responsibility to accept that child, no matter what they say. So you have to accept that child as a girl even though he is a boy. Now, I don't know about you, but I've been around children. I was a child once myself, and you go through stages. You go through phases as a child. There are some days when you think you are an astronaut. There are some days when you think you are a fire truck. So my question is, to the lieutenant governor, if we are to accept these children at face value with their personal identities, what exactly are we supposed to do? How far do we go to play along to humor the children? For example, I mean, if you're going out for lunch at Chick-fil-A and your kid identifies as a fire truck, are you gonna drop by the Chevron station? And get him a gallon of gasoline? I don't think so. But the lieutenant governor of Minnesota says, if you don't do that, well, you are a bad parent cut number one. Because let's be clear, this is life affirming and life saving healthcare. When our children tell us who they are. It is our job as grown-ups to listen and to believe them. That's what it means to be a good parent. So the lieutenant governor was giving that speech at an event marking the signing of an executive order that now establishes Minnesota as a trans refuge. So if you are transgender, I you can go to Minnesota and they're going to affirm you.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
The Major Questions Doctrine
"Yeah, yeah. General Clement, when I read the D.C. circuit's opinion, which is a two one opinion. I read that after I read your petition for shirt before I wrote my Washington Post column, they seem to treat the Supreme Court new precedent on administrative law the way that the national marine fisheries service treated the comment. It was like a potemkin village notice and comment here. 90% of the notice and comment responses that don't do this, you'll kill us and the national marine fisheries service just dismissed them. Well, the D.C. circuit took a look at what the Supreme Court has been saying about administrative law and they said, we are fully aware of that, but this isn't that. And I said, oh my gosh, this is exactly that. I mean, isn't that your reaction? This is exactly what the major questions doctrine or other changes. Maybe they just need a two by four to get it right. Well, sometimes the court has to give an unmistakable message to the courts of appeals before they'll listen. You know, I had a case last term completely different area of the law. But for years and years and years, the Supreme Court had basically been saying, we've moved away from our lemon test in the establishment clause context. And last term, the court got frustrated with lower courts not getting the message and just made it unmistakably clear in the case involving coach Kennedy. And I think we may need something else in the administrative law area.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
The Merits of "chevron Deference"
"Welcome back, America. I'm guilty here and thank you for joining me this morning. Now I'm about to talk about Chevron deference and my steeler fans friends think that means there's a line at the gas station like under Jimmy Carter. That's not what it is, but you need to understand Chevron deference and you and to understand why a new court filing in loper bright enterprises versus raimondo may finally lead to what we need in this country, which is a checking in of the administrative state. It's been filed by the former solicitor general of the United States. Paul Clement, who joins me now. General Clement, welcome to the Hugh Hewitt show. Great to talk to you. It's great to be with you. You know, I'm very happy to talk about that. You are a friend of Carol plant lebao and she'd been telling me for years. How can you not know Paul Clement? You know, ruxley, you know, Ted Olson, you knew chuck Cooper and, you know, ten stars. I just never run across and he's too young. So am I correct you've argued more than a hundred Supreme Court's arguments thus far? That's right here. I have argued more than a hundred cases, quite amazing to me. That is so fabulous. And I have personally recommended this man to people when they are looking for Supreme Court litigators because you don't want to send in the local council actually to target before the Supreme Court. This case of loper bright though, caught my eye, Paul Clement, because I teach con law and I try and explain Chevron deference and even law students eyes glaze over, but it can't be an issue for the administrative conference. It can't be an issue for administrative lawyers and professors. It matters to every small business in American carrying great burdens of regulation. Will you explain what Chevron deference is and then what loper bright is going to try and do I delight it to. So the thing about Chevron at least that makes me so kind of concerned about it is you and I have a lawsuit and we disagree about the meaning of a statute. The court is ultimately going to have to figure out which one of us is right. And there's no tie breaker. They have to do all the work and they have to get to a point where they just give their best impression as to what the statute means. But if instead of having a legal dispute with you, I have a legal dispute with a federal government agency, then instead of the courts having to get the statute just right. And figure out what's the best reading of the statute. They essentially get to look at it and unless the statute is clearly in my favor. Then basically the courts will defer to the government.
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
EEA Member Spotlight with UNCX Networks CEO and Cofounder Antoine Chaveron
"5 p.m. Thursday March 9th, 2023. EA member spotlight with UNC X network CEO and cofounder Antoine severin. As an EEA member, UNC X network is part of the EEA community of organizations working to advance Ethereum and drive industry adoption. In the camp a below, the EEA interviewed Antoine Chevron CEO and cofounder about how the organization contributes to the Ethereum business ecosystem. Please introduce your company and yourself. My name is the post EEA member spotlight with UNC X network CEO and cofounder Antoine Chevron appeared first on enterprise Ethereum alliance.
Squawk Pod
"chevron" Discussed on Squawk Pod
"Oil companies pretty frequently. We are talking to the American companies and I have to tell you they have been to The White House. They've talked to senior staff and to senior advisers to the president on occasion with the oil company CEOs. Have you heard from The White House when it comes to what's happening this weekend? Have you heard from anybody at OPEC plus? Do they check in with you? I haven't spoken to anybody in The White House recently, but I have spoke to some of the people involved in the OPEC meeting and I think the decision to go virtual means there's less likelihood of kind of a circus around that meeting. I don't know that they're in a position to predict how this plays out any better than that. Have you spoken to anyone in The White House this decade? Yes, okay. So when you say recently, you just meant to Becky was asking about the next week. But you have had productive dialogs with the Biden administration about how Chevron conducts its domestic activities. You've had discussions. When we talk about a wide range of activities with people in the administration and there's concerns about diesel and heating oil supplies to the northeast, the issues in Ukraine, Russia, LNG markets were in contact on Avery. So the criticism that the Biden administration has not reached out to domestic producers while it coddles foreign dictators. And you're actually involved in the Venezuela situation. Maybe it's faster. Does it come online faster? Is there a reason that the Biden administration would prefer doing business with Venezuela, then maybe domestically? Well, you'd have to ask the Biden administration. Look, we work with the administration on a range of things. Our goal of stable markets and prices that are affordable for the economy is something we share, how we get there. We have sometimes different ideas about when you said, and it does take patients to be the CEO of a major at this point in patients and calmness and everything and stability. I think that's right. I don't know whether you said that off camera. But I think that's okay to share. You do need patience in this business at this point in time. You know, it's a long cycle business, and we go through a lot of different administration. Short cycle volatility, different politics. So the question and I guess you may pun on this too. When you hear the president say, we are going to end drilling. No more drilling. There is no more drilling. Ten days ago. After he's saying we want you to increase production. If you hear the president say we're going to end drew and you just take that as, I don't know. As just sort of politicking and you don't really believe it, or do you say I'm not going to invest any money because why would I do that if 5 years from now we end drilling? Well, we hear people say a lot of things. You watch what they do. And we invest through cycles and we've received mixed messages, Joe. You've got that right. Messages don't increase confidence. Well, Chevron be drilling in 2000 50. Yes. My guess is your job is much more complicated than your predecessors just in terms of it used to be an issue where you figure where do I think oil prices are going to go in the next one to 5 years. And as a result, how much CAPEX do I put in to increasing our ability to drill or not? It seems to me like it's a much more complicated series of factors that you have to kind of do the calculus on these days. It's political risks. It's pressure from your shareholders, it's pressure from ESG stakeholders and the anti ESG stakeholders. It just a lot more that goes into it these days. There are a lot more dynamics. It's a bigger, it's a bigger market. You get trade issues. The relationships with countries like China, the changes in OPEC and OPEC plus all have created new dynamics. It's an industry that always has existed at the intersection of engineering and technology, economics, and geopolitics, but the specific economic technical or political issues continue to throw in Putin and do you feel at times where you have to think beyond all this because for the good of the world. I mean, when you look at what's going to happen in Europe, potentially this winter after Putin basically used oil and energy as a weapon, if you hadn't, if you had succumbed to all the pressure to cut production over the last couple of years until recently, we wouldn't be supplying Europe. Do you think about that? There are developing countries that need energy for their people to be able to have heat and food. Is that on your shoulders, my absolutely think about it. So you have to ignore the noise. We're growing production because the world's growing in terms of debate. Thank you. And we have to look at that well into the future and invest to meet that demand. So we're growing this year up in the U.S. 15% in the Permian versus the same period last year and continuing to invest in. What do you think about the big asset managers? And I'm thinking of BlackRock because you've heard what large bank has said. And he's been big on lots of climate issues, but then this week was saying, look, I think, and by the way, he would say he's been consistent in so far as he would say, if you really read these letters over the years, I've always thought that we're going to need oil for very, very long time. Because he told you this week 70 years. He said 70 years. I've always spoken about the need for hydrocarbons. I actually believe we're going to need hydrocarbons for 70 years. But the key and this is what we're really focusing on. The key is, how do we see question and how do we capture carbon? How do we reduce what we are using in doing it? You may say, whether you think that's consistent or not consistent, but how do you think about the influence that they have or don't have, and also now you see pushback happening from a number of red states and other treasury pension funds, Louisiana just took $2 billion from BlackRock. I don't know if you've even got a big deal, not a big deal. There's pushback. How does that relate back to you? Well, I think Larry's letters and perspective have evolved over time. As this issue evolves. And the understanding of the issue, the understanding that realities of the investment required and the pace of change, I think has evolved in many different quarters of the discussion on this. I think the reality that this is a transition, not a cliff, is something that certainly people are coming to recognize. And one of the things I emphasize in discussions with policy makers is there are three big things that matter when you talk about energy. Affordable energy is essential for economic prosperity, reliable energy is essential for national security. And environmental protection is essential because the world wants to see a sustainable planet. We have to balance all three of these in our company. We have to balance them in discussions with big investors. We have to balance those in discussions with policymakers. If you over index on any one of those, you can create vulnerabilities on the others that are unintended, but can be very real as we're
The Trish Regan Show
Desperate for Oil, Biden Turns To Venezuela
"If you haven't heard the news yet, the vitamin administration is now going to allow Chevron big American oil company to pump oil out of Venezuela. So what's unusual about that, you might say, is, well, the fact that we had previously been sanctioning Venezuela because we have repeatedly accused the regime there of being a dictatorship. You see, we have recognized a totally different politician and totally different guy Huang Guaido as the real president of Venezuela. So now we're doing a deal with Nicolas Maduro. And the reason we're doing it, let's be honest, is because we have to. We absolutely have to. I am a realist and I've said all along, it really hasn't made a ton of sense to treat Venezuela like such an enemy in light of the fact that they're so close to us. I mean, let's just go back to the Monroe doctrine for a second, right? They're right here in our hemisphere. You're talking a few hours from Florida and for some reason we've treated them in a more hostile way than we treated Russia until recently. In a more hustle way than we've treated countries like Iran. So why the change now? What's so special about this moment in time? Well, oil prices are through the roof. And it just so happens that this week they're likely going to go even higher because now these sanctions we are putting on European countries and others Vis-à-vis Russia, they're going to go into effect. And that means you're going to have even less energy on the market. And so what do they do? Well, they get all this oil sitting down there in Venezuela, and it's getting sold anyway, frankly, illegally on the black market. I've walked you through this whole triangle before. Because you're a Caribbean island where they switch the flags on the ships, and then those container ships filled with oil, go over to Asia where again, they switch the flags and then they go eventually to China. My sources have walked me through this and I've walked you through this. The oil is making its way onto the global market in one way form or another.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"chevron" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Chevron, the Biden administration is granting Chevron a license to resume production in Venezuela. Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini reports. Susanna Chevron has received a 6 month license authorizing it to produce petroleum or petroleum products in the country. And this reprieve coincides with the resumption of talks by Venezuela's battling political factions helped along by Norway mediators. And the break Chevron is getting also comes after Venezuela's president in opposition leaders agreed to a deal to work together on a humanitarian spending plan. Chevron has also been allowed to resume exports of crude from Venezuela that had been halted since 2019 by U.S. sanctions against the OPEC producer. Now the EU has been seeking to ban Russian crude and this supply from Venezuela could eventually help ease a supply crunch as the European action unfolds. Susanna. Bloomberg's Denise Pellegrini. Well, if you're out shopping and you see long lines, it could be a product of a retail labor shortage. Stacy wildlife is president and founder of SW retail advisers. What you're seeing is retailers are hiring fewer people this year. There are some layoffs out there. But I think in general, one of the biggest pain points over the past year has been lack of labor and stores. People don't want to work in retail because everybody's stressed. She says, retailers are paying higher wages at this point to attract retail workers. The lighting of the world's famous Christmas tree at Rockefeller center is just around the corner. The city will officially ring in the holiday season with the lighting ceremony on Wednesday night. Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I'm Susanna Palmer. This is Bloomberg. This
ACN Newswire
Subang Parade Celebrates Football Fever
"1 p.m. Thursday, November 24th, 2022. Subban parade celebrates football fever. Kuala Lumpur, November 24th, 2022 ACN newswire subban parade, a flagship property owned by Hector REIT, is pleased to announce the kick-off of the 2022 football fever to celebrate the football season this morning. Executive director and chief corporate officer of Hector asset management, the manager of Hector real estate investment trust pew and zarina haleem and YB Michel in May Z ADU and suboccipital Malaysian footballer from petaling Jaya city football team subban parade shopping mall. To celebrate the 2022 football season, subban parade has lined up a host of family friendly activities at LG, east and concourse from November 26th to December 11th, which includes shoot for glory, football, juggling performance, football skills, workshop, and three versus three food sale contests for children aged 700 to 12 years. The media launch event on November 24th was officiated by subang Jaya state assemblywoman YB Michel in Maisie, executive director amp chief corporate officer of Hector asset management. The manager of Hector real estate investment trust pew and zarina haleem and attended by professional football player sir van pilley, pew and zarina helene Sid, quote this is a great opportunity for families to come together for some fun and games as the yearend school holidays begin. Subban parade is a community centered mall, and in lying with our focus on the social aspects of environmental, social app governance ESG, our priority remains to provide a great retail experience and promote wholesome activities that encourage engagement amp physical well-being of our community. This also aligns with our commitment to United Nations sustainable development goal three on good health and well-being. Chevron said, quote this football fever is a good platform to promote football not just as a game, but as a sport for healthy living among children. It tap is also about teaching them healthy competition and the meaning of teamwork and at the same time, picking up skills on how to kick the ball, pass the ball and play as a team dot quote among the activities lined up is the shoot for glory challenge, and which shoppers can win lucrative prizes by shooting balls into target goals. The pool of prizes is worth more than RM ten zero zero zero, which includes a 70 inch LG four K TV, Samsung S 22, Apple watch SE and 5 consolation prizes throughout the campaign period. There will be a special football jiggling performance, football clinics catered for kids and adults, as well as a juggling contest every weekend from 7 p.m. 9 p.m., the highlight is the three versus three food style contest on the tenth and the 11th of December 2022, held at the LG, east and concourse. This food style contest is open to children in two categories 7 to 9 and ten to 12 years old. The competition has received overwhelming response and at least 24 teams are competing for each age category. Terms and conditions apply for all the football activities mentioned above, subban parade HTTPS WWW dot supere dot com, why copyright 2022 ACN news wire. All rights reserved. WWW dot AC and newswire dot com.
The Charlie Kirk Show
What Is Really Happening Behind the Scenes With OPEC+?
"Paul from South Carolina Charlie, I'm confused about what OPEC is doing. How should I view this? Is this going to increase gas prices? Okay, let's play a piece of tape here from NBC's Brian Sullivan. It's cut one O 8. I think the media is missing what's really going on here, which is pure unadulterated foreign involvement in our elections, and it is against Joe Biden. I don't support this, but it's just what it is. There's many different dynamics happening right now. There are some things bubbling up in Iran. That the Central Intelligence Agency very well might be involved in. There's also the final stages of the certification of a new Iran deal, which would pave the way for Iran to get a nuclear weapon. There is one country that basically is the anchor country in OPEC, that very much does not want to see that happen. Another major member of OPEC really doesn't like the fact that there is no opposition to flow of arms and money flowing to Ukraine, of which I actually happen to support that we don't send any money to Ukraine. But just talking very strategically, Russia and Saudi Arabia right now for a third reason too, which is they don't want to see all fossil fuels destroyed, which ironically they would actually benefit if America never exported oil natural gas again, but they have too much more immediate geopolitical needs. Russia wants to see some interruption of arms and armaments, I should say and resources going to Ukraine and Saudi Arabia desperately wants to see a slowdown of the United States broken Iran deal with obviously the United States and Iran. Play cut one O 8. News OPEC cuts by 2 million barrels a day. You back out the fact that some countries aren't meeting their quotas. The real math that we got to is that we are actually cutting about 900,000 physical barrels per day, which by the way, while they're not directly tied, the strategic petroleum release is about 900,000 barrels per day. So it's kind of hard not to look at this decision and say there's got to be some political element to it. Wall Street Journal late last night with an exclusive saying that the U.S. is looking to ease sanctions on Venezuela so that Chevron so that but in part Chevron will then be able to keep drilling and producing oil in Venezuela. Yeah, so look there's a several dynamics to this. First of all, Joe Biden refuses to open up our incredible energy resources here. He doesn't want to set that precedent because that would actually make America very strong and it would thwart this green energy pagan revolution that is being led by Buttigieg and all these imbeciles in our
The Dan Bongino Show
Vivek Ramaswamy: Large Investors Are Using Your Money to Force Political Agendas
"What happens is that the large investment managers blast rocks on that list state street Vanguard invesco I could go on These large investment managers what they are doing is they're taking the money of everyday citizens ordinary hardworking Americans And then they're using that money to buy shares in American companies That they're supposed to do But here's the part they're also not supposed to do that they're doing anyway They're using that money to tell these companies to adopt one sided political values that most of the everyday citizens actually disagree with So they go to Apple BlackRock did and votes in favor of racial equity audit proposals They go to Chevron and vote in favor of scope three emissions caps that have caused American energy companies to drill for less oil to frack for less natural gas which by the way has contributed to a generational energy crisis in this country You know what Dan from the hive Nas prices at the pump to the inability to access electricity in certain state that is directly a product of the so called ESG movement That's what you call when these large asset managers forced corporate America to adopt these values but the fraud in all of this is that they're not using their own money to do it They're using your money The money of the listeners of this program to advance those agendas that leave American investors and American citizens holding the bag And I think that's what people need to wake up to is that the good news is they're empowered You don't have to wait till November to vote you vote every day with your dollars and where they're invested And every time you see Disney take up a transgender debate across the country or you take a company like Apple adopting racial equity quota systems you don't have to wonder why they're doing it They're doing it because their shareholders the top institutions like BlackRock are using your money to tell them to adopt those agendas And that's what needs to be fixed And that's what I'm working on fixing through the market
AP News Radio
High oil prices help Saudi Aramco earn $88B in first half
"Global oil companies are posting huge profits I'm Lisa dwyer with the latest Saudi energy company Aramco says its profits jumped 90% in the second quarter compared to the same time last year That helped Aramco's half year earnings to reach nearly $88 billion for the first half of the year The increase is a boon for the kingdom and The Crown prince's spending power as people around the world pay higher prices at the pump major oil companies have a strong quarter last quarter ExxonMobil booked an unprecedented $17.85 billion in profit Chevron made a record 11.62 billion in shell shattered its own profit record Aramco says the profits were driven primarily by higher crude oil prices volume sold and higher refining margins Saudi Arabia's vast oil reserves are among the cheapest to produce in the world I'm Lisa dwyer
The Ben Shapiro Show
Biden Is Blaming Everyone but Himself for His Gas Crisis
"According to upstream online dot com, in a letter sent in June to a list of companies including ExxonMobil Chevron Shell, Phillips 66 Marathon Petroleum of BP, Biden chastised the companies. He said at a time of war, historically high refinery profit margins being passed directly onto American families are not acceptable. But Chevron called for policies that underpin continued investment in oil and gas rather than the obstructive approach that Joe Biden has been using thus far. The oil companies then sent a written statement out, they said, we want to underscore the U.S. refineries are running at high utilization rates. Refinery capacity expansion is a long-term proposition given permitting engineering design capital cost estimates and equipment procurement. So the idea that they can just ramp up production is not true. But Joe Biden has to find somebody to blame for his own bad policy. And so, of course, he spent the last several months up to a year blaming everybody but himself. In October of 2021, remember, as of October of 2021, you were already looking at gas prices that were hovering just under three bucks and 50 cents per gallon. And so it already risen by well over a dollar under Joe Biden. At that point, Joe Biden said the gas prices would come down. They did not. Do you have a timeline for gas prices of when do you think they may start coming down? My guess is you'll start to see gas prices come down as we get by going into the winter. I mean, excuse me, in the next year, 2022. Oh, midwinter to the next. Oh. Has that been happening right now? Then Joe Biden blamed OPEC for the high gas prices. This is November of 2021. If you take a look at gas prices and you take a look at oil prices. That is a consequence of thus far. The refusal of Russia or the OPEC nations to pump more oil. Oh, by the way, there's November. That was well before the Ukraine war is blaming OPEC.
AP News Radio
Unprecedented profit for major oil drillers as prices soared
"As Americans struggle the past few months with high prices at the pump and elsewhere oil companies took in record profits President Biden called out oil companies last month Exxon made more money than God this year Or more money than it's ever made ExxonMobil booked a nearly $18 billion profit in the second quarter with the revenue nearly 50 billion higher than in the same period last year Its CEO attributes the success to investments in oil and gas fields and liquefied natural gas which has been in high demand since Russia's Ukraine invasion Chevron and shell also set profit records last quarter Sagar Meghani Washington
The Dan Bongino Show
Steve Deace: Things Changed When Corporations Got Woke
"Against it This gun Bill is a perfect example right It's 14 Republicans who just sold this out in the Senate side Yes And that's a red line there I mean that's the one issue over the last 30 years really that the mainstream Republican Party So if you look at if you look at since Eisenhower gave his momentous exit speech his going away speech The Republican Party's nominees have been Richard Nixon two bushes John McCain Mitt Romney and then there is then there's Reagan and Trump two of these things are not like the other And so this is the reality of the fact that you're aligned with this party has hated its base for decades It has as I saw I tweet out today that the difference between the new populist right and the mainstream right is that we don't favor corporations over God and our traditions And the mainstream right has always done that It was always about it was always up to Chevron doctrine more than overturning roe It was always about the two state solution more than let's move the embassy to Jerusalem And it's always been that way which has changed is when the corporations got woke in and they no longer even pretended to fly the flag and even wink at our belief system That mainstream right now they got exposed Now they couldn't triangulate off of that anymore And so I think a lot of people are pardon the pun getting woke politically just not necessarily in the way the other side had
The Dan Bongino Show
Steve Deace: Mask Mandates Have Been About Power, Not Health
"On masks also failing to find any real experimental effect to the therapeutic use of mass to stop the transmission of the disease I mean you would think at some point that the Fauci's of the world and the bureaucrats you know speaking of Chevron the CDC folks and ocean would come around and be like well you know what It's time to kind of gain our credibility back and admit that may not have been the best thing to pump down people's throats his mask thing but nope Well I'm hearing more traffic about masks coming back again if there's another outbreak Because this hasn't been about health from the very beginning This has been about power and control from the very beginning What's happened in what's happened in our society collectively and COVID has revealed this more menacingly and glaringly than any other issue in our lifetimes Is that the highest value now in our society and in a full spirit of the age status total state society The highest value now is compliance To show that I comply the west is now this episode of Black Mirror With Ron Howard's Blythe Howard the Ron Howard's daughter where she lives in a social credit system And she's constantly being judged by how well how just fake kind fake virtuous fake sanctimonious and fake compassionate compassionate she is in every walk of her life at work when she goes to the mall when she goes through A toll booth everything And that's what we're seeing now that this is really about compliance And that's why the same people who originally put masks in their social media bios then went to their jab registration cards And then they went to the pronouns and then they went to the Ukraine flag because they got the signal Hey new pronouns just dropped New civil sacrament just dropped new next current next current thing just dropped Your opportunity to show you're
The Dan Bongino Show
Steve Deace: The Populist Right vs. The Mainstream Right
"This gun Bill is a perfect example right It's 14 Republicans who just sold this out in the Senate side Yes And that's a red line there Dan I mean that's the one issue over the last 30 years really that the mainstream Republican Party So if you look at if you look at since Eisenhower gave his momentous exit speech his going away speech The Republican Party's nominees have been Richard Nixon two bushes John McCain Mitt Romney and then there is then there's Reagan and Trump Two of these things are not like the other And so this is the reality of the fact that you know you're aligned with this party has hated its base for decades It has as I saw I tweet out today that the difference between the new populist right and the mainstream right is that we don't favor corporations over God and our traditions And the mainstream right has always done that It was always about you know it was always about the Chevron doctrine more than overturning roe It was always about the two state solution more than let's move the embassy to Jerusalem And it's always been that way What just changed is when the corporations got woken and they no longer even pretended to slide the flag and even wink at our belief system That mainstream right now they got exposed Now they couldn't triangulate off of that anymore And so I think a lot of people are pardon the pun getting woke politically just not necessarily in the way the other side had anticipated
The Doug Collins Podcast
Should We Push for the Appeal of the 'Chevron Deference'?
"Out there who just throw around, I have a constitutional right. Need to be aware that they may not understand what they're talking about. And I think that's an interesting talk about that for a minute because Gorsuch, you mentioned the two. Gorsuch and Kavanaugh in particular. They're the sticklers on this and I'm concerned on some, you know, the mandates and the military and others that they're going to run into this doctrine and which I believe Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are completely state them. Along with Roberts, when I came to Washington D.C. to be in the Department of Justice and the Trump administration, Chevron deference and sort of whether or not we should sort of push for the repeal of Chevron deference is an interesting intellectual exercise. I mean, obviously once you're in the executive branch to sort of enjoy Chevron deference, it allows you to sort of get the benefit of the doubt as you're implementing your policies and your interpretations of Congress's legislation. So on the one hand, it is convenient when you're in the executive branch to take advantage of Chevron deference. On the other hand, it allows for quite frankly bad policy or policy that is not otherwise necessary and appropriate. I think it's grown so big now that it's almost like a convenient way for courts to actually get out of constitutional analysis ultimately.
No Laying Up
"chevron" Discussed on No Laying Up
"All the funnel pins are rain doesn't want to move. Well, a little, but I'm okay with the pin on 14. That's a good that's a good pin. The 16, there's no, there's no disaster. So wrong. That's so wrong. You just hit in the middle and it's like everybody gets an 8 to ten foot putt. No, but if you miss it right, like almost can't get it up and down. Like you can not get the right speed coming down. That's the catastrophic. That's a catastrophic miss. Yeah, I think one person coming down the stretch missed it up in that bunker to the right. And all the putts to that Sunday pin at Augusta on 16 are very difficult. No matter where you leave it, the putt is very difficult. That's the whole point of the funnel pin. It's a bad pin. I will say bones was great on the telecast. His course knowledge and experience there was just a real big asset. I had a ton of fun. I was like, you guys, I had never really watched it just because of crazy schedule and was so much fun. And an awesome telecast too. It felt like a master's. It felt major, and then you, I mean, I hate to drive by golf channel like this, but you compare it to the Chevron broadcast and then the onward felt more important. It just did. The total aside and this could just be the quality of my very small television, of course, as many people like to remind me. Gusta looked just okay. Condition wise, I don't know if that stuck out to anyone else, the greens looked a little just discolored a little bit. The fairways didn't look as pure as what we're used to, maybe it really does peak in this coming week, but I don't know. That jumped off the screen at me. I don't know if anyone else. I didn't see other people talking about that, but it looked very much just okay. For me, dog. I think that's put that in my notebook. Is something to watch. I didn't have that. I didn't have that impression, but to take something away from you. On 11 is most welcome. Yeah. I thought you might like that. Yeah. Huge fan. We can talk a little bit. We'll have a whole master's preview podcast. We'll talk plenty about the golf course changes and all that. They'll come out to probably Monday night overnight. So hum one interesting or whom interesting on Twitter said, why is there no LPGA event at Augusta, please explain it to me like I'm 5. Got a lot of versions of this question when I put a call out for questions today. I mean, the explain it like I'm 5 would be, I would think that the members say we are the members of the most exclusive place in the entire world and you're lucky that we give you one week. Now we give you ten days. Listen, we're not giving up another week in our already fairly short season, right? That's how monarchies crumble. Well, yeah, most of these people. They take a mile. Exactly. I mean, it's such a bummer. Of course, would watch would love to watch. I don't think anybody would be, you know, against that. But yeah, it's not like it's up to them. Explain it to me like I'm 5. It's like because they don't want to do it. Exactly. Like if they wanted to do it, it would start tomorrow. But they obviously don't. So I guess that's kind of the end of the conversation. But will they ever? I don't I think I don't think they will now. Now that they have the honor, I think they'll, I think they would point to that. As almost like a Rite of passage for. And I remember talking about this last year, I think, on the podcast where it sucks for the women that both missed the envoy or kind of got caught in that in between where they couldn't quite play it and whatever, but it just seems like every star on their way up now and obviously as evidenced by Jennifer kupcho, who literally won a major today, is going to go through there, right? And I think that's pretty cool and it's keeping in spirit with the Augusta amateur thing and it's, I think they'll probably just keep making that bigger and bigger and bigger. Yeah, I tend to agree and I think it kind of bums me out because I think a women's major there would be awesome. I was really hopeful with the men's tournament in October during the COVID year and seeing how that went off. That would be such an awesome perfect spot on the calendar to put a women's major event at Augusta. Or you know what I'm holding out hope for and this will never happen, but I'm an idiot and we'll hold out hope would be solheim cup. Late in the season like that, like September, October, just do it as like this is going to happen one time. Everybody stop yelling at us to sort of thing. But that would be phenomenal. I look at how at no point during this, does this stand as an apology for any of Augustus past, if you will, but if you just go back like 20 years, like how unlikely it is a drive chip and putt the day on the 18th green, you know, the day before the tournament week starts sound. And then also like, oh yeah, also we're going to host an amateur women's tournament the day before the drive chip and putt contests in this 7 year olds are running around the 18th green. Also, can we talk about the dude? Perfect. It's going to come out doing all sports battle around eamonn corner. It's kind of like, man, the whole exclusivity and so much so much shit has changed there over the years and they do, they have done a lot. I meant to research this kind of notes in terms of all the things that they've done in terms of some of the communities around Augusta as well and kind of the fundraising they've done. And listen, is it all the amount of local businesses they've bought up? Yeah, listen. Are there some scars there? I'm not here to apologize for all that. I'm just saying like, they've clearly shown they have a desire to either change the narrative or also just do some good shit. I believe that. Now, you know, where the spirit where it comes from, I'm not going to necessarily say. But it is, it's going to, I think it's become more and more glaring as to be like, why isn't there? What's a good answer as to why, other than your reason? Like, yeah, we don't want to..
No Laying Up
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"An adjustment for you, talk about those couple of years? It was definitely an adjustment. I mean, in college, we were pretty spoiled. We had everything taken care of. And our rent and food and literally everything was taken care of. And then all of a sudden you turn pro when you were playing on symmetra now epsilon tour and you're on your own. I had a lot of friends there. I traveled with three girls and we were pretty tight group, but it was still a big adjustment golf wise. I mean, you have to play well to make the card and make any money, otherwise it was just a huge expense for the week and you're not making anything. So it was quite stressful for me, financially. I think I was a little too focused on the result in the beginning and just trying to kind of stay afloat, not really happy with how I was playing, but after the first year I kind of took a break and I talked to I talked to my family and my sponsors and I actually worked in a wine store for a month over Christmas and I had like a schedule 9 to 5 pretty much and I got I got paid consistently, which was cool. I had never had that before, so I was like, wow, this is what it's like. But at the same time, I was like, okay, I don't think this is for me. I really want to I really want to appreciate the golf life more and being a professional golfer and just put all my all my focus on that and give it a real shot and just see where I can end up. So I think my second year I had like a much better perspective and I was a lot happier wasn't that focused on the results and more like the journey and the bigger picture and I think that really helped me getting my LPGA tour card. I have to ask, did you know a lot about wine? Did you learn a lot about wine working in the wine shop? Well, I've always been interested in wines and I heard it's a in Finland at the wine store. It's like one wine store everywhere in the country. So they kind of have a monopoly. And they're known as it's a good stepping stone for people who want to work part time or like I only work for the winter season, like the Christmas holiday season. My dad actually worked for them when he was younger, so he's like, okay, it's a great place. They treat the employees very well and the pay is okay. And it's like, okay, you know what? I'll do it. And they trained us. So we had wine tastings every now and then. So we could tell the customers and explain what's in wine and what to pair it with and stuff like that. But I was only there for a month so I can I can say that I'm like a sommelier now, but it was interesting. Yeah, for sure. And then earned your LPGA tour card going into what would be the 2020 season obviously the pandemic kind of made it a much longer rookie season than anybody was expecting. But going from symmetra tell PGA, you know, what was that like? And then talk to me about that breakthrough win at medill last year. Was that, you know, did you feel like it was building to that? Or did that kind of catch you by surprise breaking through with the wind there? Well, my first year on the LPG was very, very different than most people's because of COVID. I think I was very lucky to have that first year kind of as a practice round really because we could just play however many tournaments we wanted to and not really worry about the rankings or our status or Q school or anything. So I think it was really nice to have I think I played 9 events and I finished top ten ones. So after that, I was like, okay, I think I got this. It's a nice little practice practice year for us rookies and then once our actual rookie year started, I felt like more prepared and I knew what to expect and I knew I knew most of the players. I knew the staff and I was just a lot more comfortable coming in. I didn't feel that much of a rookie, even though I was. And the wind, I think it catch me by surprise. I always knew that one day I'll be holding a trophy and trophy. I knew and I was hoping it was definitely one of my goals. But it was way sooner than I expected. I didn't expect to win my first year, but once I was in that in that situation going into Sunday, I was like, okay, tomorrow is going to be a huge learning day for me. And I kind of took it as no matter what happens, it's going to be great because even if I didn't win, it would be a great experience and I can build on that and next time I'll know what to expect. And if I did win, that would be obviously huge. But I kind of didn't put a lot of pressure on myself because I knew no matter what, I'll be. I'll be okay and it's still an amazing week and just good golf and yeah. Are you a goal oriented person when it comes to when it comes to golf and I'm curious if so you've won now on the LPGA tour you've competed in the solheim cup I'm curious if you could share if you do have some goals. What's next for you? What do you hope to accomplish here? Yeah, those were my big goals actually that I set when I was a little girl, so I had to I had to kind of reevaluate after last season and think, okay, what's next? I think I'm more of a feel person. I have my goals, as I said, I'm really competitive. So I know what I want to do in my career, but I haven't really set benchmarks or years to have those goals accomplished. But I'm definitely looking for some bigger trophies. I would love to win a major. I think I can I have the game to do it. It's just a matter of time. And getting more comfortable on the tougher golf courses and getting kind of that same game back that I had last year that when playing felt really easy, yeah, I'm looking forward to that whenever it comes. Well, it might come this week. I was going to say, you know, why not make it this week at your first Chevron? Matilda, thank you so much for taking time during a major week to talk to us really appreciate it and best of luck this week. Yeah, thanks for having me. Our final guest today, none other than Hannah green, Hannah, thank you so much for taking time. How are you today? I'm good, thanks. Thanks for having me. Of course, of course. You are compared to the other women I've talked to today. You are kind of a veteran at this event. This is your fourth start or excuse me, your 5th start at Chevron. How do you assess mission hills, the course would, in your opinion, what does it put a premium on in terms of certain skills? Yeah. It's just a course where you have to stay really patient. I feel like every week or every year we come, it gets really firm on the weekend, so it means you have to worry about.
No Laying Up
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"Our interview with Matilda Castro. All right, everybody, we are now joined by Matilda Castro Matilda. Thank you so much for taking time today. It's wonderful to meet you. How are you doing? I'm doing good. It's a beautiful morning here in Palm Springs. Thanks for having me. Yeah, of course. Of course. Well, let's start here for anybody that isn't overly familiar with you and your golf game. I'm curious how you would describe your golf game to people in your own words. That's a good question. I haven't really thought about it or have been asked that before. But I'd like to say I enjoy the pressure and I enjoy the situations where I need to perform my best and I enjoy the competition. I'm very, I'm a very competitive person. So I'd like to say I perform my best under pressure. And there are a couple of instances that I want to ask you about in just a little bit where you certainly did perform well under pressure. But let me start here. This is we're obviously out at the Chevron championship mission hills country club, Palm Springs. This is your first time playing in the Chevron. What's the prep like playing in a new event like this? I know you live in San Diego, so I'm not sure if you're familiar at all with the course from growing up and being somewhat close or not. Well, I've actually been in San Diego only for a couple of years. So I grew up in Finland, so not really close to here. But I am kind of familiar with the course. I played here first stage of Q school twice. But the conditions are very, very different. We play in August when it's like a 115° and basically no rough and it's a very, very dry course. But the preparation is very different to that. So obviously the rough is quite thick. So it's important to hit the fairways, hit your driver well, the fairways kind of run. So if you're driving the ball well, that really gives you an advantage. Yeah, just around the greens. A lot of short game out of that thick rough and those bunker shots are very, very important this week. So I'm picking up obviously driving the ball well, you got to put well anytime you want to chance to win. Is there any other aspects of mission hills that go about separating and identifying a winner and I guess with that, is there a certain whole or stretch of holes that you kind of key in on at the start of the week that are kind of important for one reason or another? I think it all comes down to the last few holes on Sunday afternoon. So I think I'm putting a little more emphasis on the back 9. I mean, it's really important to hit the fairway here. If you're in the rough and the pin is tucked, you have a really really tough shot and getting into the green and stopping the ball because the greens are quite firm. So I think that's going to be the differentiating factor between the winner and the rest of the field and just driving the ball well and hitting a lot of greens and obviously making the pots. And you are here off a whirlwind 2021. Before we kind of dive into the specifics of that, let me ask you this, post solheim cup. So kind of 6 months, it's the end of the solheim cup. What's that been like for you? Has there been somewhat of a letdown or a comedown from, you know, I imagine your adrenaline and competitiveness was really firing for much of last year and certainly all the summer. But I'm curious what these last 6 months have been like for you. Well, saulheim is definitely a huge adrenaline rush. There's nothing that compares it. There's not really anything that prepares you for it. I mean, I talked to the to some of the other players that had experience and, I mean, it helped a little bit, but once you're there, you really know what it's like and the whole week is just so much pressure and I mean, it's so much fun playing in the team and getting to know the players and just having that great team chemistry that we had in our European team was just so much fun, but actually I was sick right after solheim, so I think it was a huge stress off my shoulders and I talked to a couple other players and they actually got sick too. So I think it's kind of all those emotions and that adrenaline just like coming off of your body and then your body just tells you to rest. Yeah, it was just such a huge week and the last 6 months have been very, very different compared to that. A lot of actually a lot of time off, which has been nice to spend some time with family and just do other things than playing golf. But yeah, I wouldn't say I would say my game hasn't quite been as it has or as it was last year and personal time and my win in Europe and when I met her, I'm just staying patient and trying to get back to that best game that I have. And that you are even at the solheim cup and competing for team Europe was it's an accomplishment for anybody, but I think you more so than maybe anybody else just because of the circumstances that you had to go through to qualify for that team. Can you talk about how you got to be on team Europe and what you had to do to compete in the solheim cup? Yeah, so actually early last year I wasn't even thinking about solheim. I it was my first year. First full year on the LPGA and I was just kind of like hoping to get my card and go step by step build up on every year. And after my win at medieval, I started getting those questions from the media and I was like, wait, actually I think I have a chance, but then I found out I needed to be a member of the LET, which then brought me to the decision to go to play in Finland, which I was already thinking about it. Before it wasn't the best schedule wise, but just the fact of.
No Laying Up
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"You've had like you said you've been in contention a number of times a few runner up finishes. What have you learned about yourself and your golf game putting yourself in that position? I definitely realized you know I enjoy it so much fun like being in contention is the best and just I really embraced the nurse, I think. Even last year when I was in contentions then, I thought coming up the stretch 16, 15, 16, 17, I thought it would be so nervous. Oh, it's a little nervous, but I just really enjoyed it. I was like, you know, you don't get to feel these kind of nerves all the time. It's only like when you're in contention, right? So it's like you're really enjoy it and just like this is great. It's so much fun, so yeah, hopefully next time I am in contention, I'll be more calm and collected and just more decisive and sure of everything. I can't help but notice there are some really nice BMW courtesy cars this week here at the Chevron. How have those been? Have you enjoyed driving them around? Yes, you know, it sucks that I'm not 25 because I can't drive it. Oh yes. Yo. Yeah, well my parents are, they always travel with me, so they're doing the driving. So it's like a rental car. And not even, she was like, are you 21? I was like, no, not yet. She's like, oh. Okay. But you know, maybe I'll take a spin for you. But it's all good. 'cause I have to admit, your agent, Kevin, who I know pretty well. But he said, do you have a driver's license? Are you just got it? Oh, you just got just got it last year. 'cause he was like, ask you to leave me 'cause I don't think she even drives here. Hey, I got it. We're good now. Passive first try? Oh yeah, of course. It took a long enough. It took long enough, yeah. Well, good for you. Yeah. I didn't think about the 25. You know, the fact that we have the Kurdish cards is so great. I mean, it's been really cool. I know you've grown up in California. You've only played two events here, but perhaps some other events. Will you be sad to see the Chevron leave California and go to Houston? It is sad. I mean, I love California and coming but there's so much history here. And I think poppy's pawn is just like the best thing ever, you know, that's tradition. It's like so much fun. And mission hills is always great, but I played a few junior tournaments here. The junior ANA inspirational. Inspiration, maybe? The AJ G event, that was so awesome. The winner gets to play into the field here. So I played it a couple of times, but yeah, I'll definitely be sad, but I'm also I just have to text this so I'll be closer to Houston, which will be nice. Okay, yeah, that will be. I was going to ask, you know, both in the United States and then out, what are your favorite stops each year? What are your favorite cities, I guess? Well, I definitely love coming to LA just all the good food. That's it. Good food and I'm there. Yeah, LA and just coming back to my home state, like I love California. So coming over here and then out receives, I'd say I really enjoyed Singapore and Thailand and Korea. In Japan, everything I love going overseas. So yeah. Very cool. Will you leave me? Thank you so much for the time today and best of luck. I hope that you can make the final leap into poppy's pond this week. Thanks for having me. Hey everybody, Randy jumping back in here again real quick to let you know today's episode is also brought to you by whoop the personalized digital fitness and health coach and official fitness wearable of the PGA and LPGA tours. You can monitor your recovery,.
The Trish Regan Show
Anonymous's New Cyber Bomb
"Words, we're saying as a government, you're not supposed to do business with Russia. If you're going to do business with Russia, then you can't really do business with us. And yet still, so many western corporations list actually anonymous tweeted a list of corporations or picture of corporations, you know, everything from Dunkin Donuts to Papa John's Pizza to city bank to Chevron, a series of companies. Some on this list actually have announced within recent days that they're going to be pulling out. But the tweet said, quote, press release, we call on companies that continue to operate in Russia by paying taxes to the budget of the Kremlin's criminal regime, pull out of Russia. We give you 48 hours to reflect and withdraw from Russia or L two will be our target anonymous op Russia hashtag op Russia they are calling this. I mean, what this really tells you is that we are in a new sort of time, right? Where it's not just traditional warfare and of course all the things that you worry about with traditional warfare, but also cyber warfare as well. Now sources tell me sources that are close to those that would know, shall we say that nobody beats us in cyber. Nobody beats us that we are really the king of this. You know, there's been a lot of speculation that Russia is so good. And what I'm told from sources close to the matter is that we are absolutely fantastic in the way a cyber. I certainly
Mark Levin
Washington Free Beacon: Biden Pressured Oil Execs to Decrease Output
"When the Washington free Beacon one of the great sights Despite reassurances from The White House that it is doing nothing to discourage oil companies from opening new drill sites President Joe Biden's allies in Congress just months ago pressured oil executives did decrease outputs Because of climate change raising questions about the Democrat party strategy to lower prices for consumers I might add That they're slip and fall ambulance chasing hate America lawyers have done the same thing They sue them bring civil suits stockholder shoots suits class action suits In order to try and force them to adopt quote unquote climate change policies In late October for example the House oversight and reform committee controlled by the Democrats of course Called in the CEOs of Exxon BP shall and Chevron To explain what steps they're taking to produce less oil and less scarce With representative Hank Johnson Democrat of Georgia nitwit alleging that quote the world can't wait any longer At the time gas prices were hovering around a ten year high This October Meanwhile Biden said this week that his administration's policies are not holding back domestic energy production echoing comments from press secretary Psaki who said that federal policies aren't limiting the supplies of oil and gas before mentioning thousands of unused pre approved oil and gas drilling leases
The Eric Metaxas Show
Robert Netzly, Founder and CEO of Inspire Investing, Describes the Corporate Impact of Faith-Based Investments
"Tool Robert, you have to be excited about this. I mean, this seems to me like a great discovery. I mean, the idea that tons of people feel powerless, but then suddenly you're saying to them, no, we're going to help you to make sure that all the money that you have invested is used for God's purposes for what is right and true. It's hard for me to see this as anything other than a really big deal. Right. And it's actually $22.1 trillion Eric that is investments that are in retirement accounts alone because there's the numbers we have from the IRS. They're controlled by protestants, evangelicals and Catholics in this nation. $22.1 trillion over the last count. That's ridiculously a lot of money. And almost none of it is advocating for biblical values with the companies that they own. And to your point, it's easy to feel powerless, like these big Megan national corporations doing all these heinous things and what can we do? Maybe we just don't shop somewhere sometimes. But what we found, again, by God's grace, we've had some pretty outsized influence with companies, such as Costco that stopped donating money to gay pride parades because of our engagement with them. Chevron stopped donating the money to Planned Parenthood because of our shareholder engagements with them. Evergreen list of companies that we engage with as investors and say, hey, you know, we call up their investor relations department introduce ourselves where faith based investors we care about biblical values, we see that you're doing XYZ. We'd rather you not do that. Just stick to your business, please. And more often than not, they're very
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
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"States. They were working forwards in terms of things and then it changed all of a sudden on july six when we saw the superstar. Joan in fourteen. Seventy five owl's everything changed and the last couple of weeks has gotten quiets. people have disappeared. There's no tenny ops calls The discussion points have gotten talks. Lawyers like it it is. It has all changed since july. Sixth and having spent we've already cemented back the case shoot three times and drilled it out through times. And something's not right. We've got holes. In the ninety five eighths casing we can't pass oppression ticketing test on the case. Which does got flow online at five. Eight stays inside. I i keep saying to people that you know. The definition of insanity is beating. Saint abraham expecting a different outcome if cement plug does not hold over the next weeks and we pressure increase on wall or flow potential swell. Look there's no way in hell water aqua frock airflow on its own. So that means you're connected to something that's got pressure that's communicating into the water tape like or you've got a force failed cement like it. What point in this. You say you've got to come up with a different approach and status and to be honest of all well-controlled jobs and underground blowouts coming out here thinking that this was just a one zone flow up the ambulance looking like an overflowing toilet the cutback to ninety five as percent of an inch turned into a remarkably technically complex problem ehrlich student number of wells potential other scenario speeding into it that i say this this. This is a rare doc in my in my book of hundreds of well control events this this is a rare docked to see something. This truly technically complex. Yeah i mean it's definitely. There's definitely a lot of problems i just. It seems like even if i was going to be selfish from the perspective of chevron it's it's what you said it's you can't have that pressure there without injection happening in somewhere near proximity most likely probably one of the wells or You know. I don't know the area well enough to say that. There's some rogue injection well nearby. That's injecting into this. That shouldn't be Sometimes water floods especially old ones They're trying to get rid of water as they're injecting right like they're producing a tenth of a percent of Natives wanted to take the produced water instead of recycling. Stick it into a different zone in. You know maybe that has happening in. It should be But within that context i would highly suspect Without again knowing the specifics. But if you shut the injection down on this pittsfield that it would all go away in them. You know as these things dissipate over time. You know if if you just wanted to say like. I just wanna like Walk away from this liability. Not actually fix the wellborn that maybe were plugged properly that you stop the injection than there would be any more issues because everything would balance out equalised in you'd have you know bad plugged wells. It would sit there for a long time and nobody would probably Nobody would have any problems. I would guess and again like it's within a static environment Facts without actual humans adding pressure injection. That you would expect that to then cross flow up into the surface known even if the plugging job had been done improperly just because water gradients going to be the water gradient the heavy water the saltwater stays at the bottom of the freshwater lightwater stays at the top and that's how we wound up in the situation we are having right that's why fresh water surface and that's why there is water In so i don't know it just seems like within you know i'm just. I would be surprised from chevrons perspective. I'd say like even if i was pets like if i was pissed i said this thing's mass like chevron money back and You know then chevron chest wells plugs mouth in the whole dramas kind of over. It seems like But you know. I think that would be a very reasonable conclusion if we can get to that level of conversation with without the attorneys because i think ultimately the end of the day. Somebody's going to have to re enter. These old well bores. It's is gonna argue that they took it over ninety days ago that this was in the ground since the nineties earlier sixties that it's not their responsibility reenter these old wells to to rectify chevrons old history. And i think that's a reasonable argument. We had but again you know it comes down to the clauses in the contract who wrote what. What a deputy do they have on the old liabilities etcetera etcetera. But it gets me is at the end of the day regardless of all the league goal. Bullshit on the other end. The fact is the wells need plugs. They need confirmed that is leading the validated and verified with lodge physical data on pressure test data to show the fact that there are properly isolated for the next hundred years. You know realistically are we going to solve. Are we going to solve the next next step. Change in plug abandonment on this fields to build securities for a thousand years snow. You know ashes thirty five years old. I told her. I said i would hope by the time. You're an old lady at eighty five. You know that that you will had closure on all the problems. I hope if the years now. I hope for her sake she's got emotional closure on what's happened out here on this match. The reality is that maybe she gets over the next five or ten years but the reality is that. I hate to say this and i said store and realistic expectations. There isn't going to be an easy answer. This is gonna be a long litigation case is going to be a pissing match in court over jurisdiction arguments in technical challenges around certain things right. There's going to be the battle between chevron it's involved with the same time there's going to be other operators who are going to step in chevron for screwing up their wells because they're going to have to plug and abandon early like the circumstance ranch that could be. Let's just find. The problem. solved the energy source. Let's find a way to make sure that brown waters isolated closed. This chapter would be the most reasonable.
Oil and Gas Startups Podcast
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"Commissions modus operandi when it comes to water disposal problems. It's not supplying water. exposal company. Their first thing is they usually go out and they blamed operator for failure. Designer for war anticipate future problems in a plugged and abandoned. Well like design at fourteen. Ninety five should have been in the is not a authorized. Water disposables on so. I don't see how the gulf oil guys even if they've done their job right it wouldn't have plans or isolation had the known. It was going to be a future risk. That would have done that. But again how i would disagree that i mean the impetus on the disposal zone operator to inject water into something. That's not In oklahoma. I don't know what it is in texas. But it's you know there's a mile radius yet to notify anybody if you're gonna jackson zone and you have to get approval. Basically so because i mean the the case law of course or you know the impetus of all oil and gas law leads. The you know it's it's there to protect mineral production. It's there to protect the producers of the mineral estate in so within that context. It's just simply is as simple as creating casing leaks in producing wells. There offset that disposal injection. Well then i guess. I found that they generally don't allow you to do that a. I guess. I just disagree a little bit on that i mean i think that the impetus is on the disposal in giang disposable companies out here aptly gonna jump in do a full completion logging and evaluate their angular casing none. We're going to do that. They're they're gonna drown. Is a if anything i'm gonna sell it off. Transfer reliability somewhere else or or to shut my operations down in move on to the next location like it wouldn't permit you. Guess my point like if you tried to permit injecting at a fourteen hundred foot sand and you had a bunch of wells all around you. That didn't have seen up to that. Fourteen hundred hundred sand than you know within a mile radius ignore. You're just gonna swiss cheese production casing so they're gonna get an operator just have even if it's just self as motivations for for you know getting their their severance tax paid having so i just wish the royal commission which big active role in helping to determine what's the cause the energy source and helping helping to identify instead of going up and if turned us into a bit of a goat roping three ring circus Regarding this narrow. And i don't agree with the ostriches head-in-the-sand approach to the data suggested this artificial at fourteen. Seventy five wasn't here twenty five years and there is a problem. I'm the last guy that should be opining on on this. Just being the finance guy but just gut reaction from stuff at cain looking at the different regulatory regimes. Oklahoma seemed to be a lot more thoughtful considerate protective of implementing wastewater disposal. I mean they would make shoot three d. seismic to make sure there was no big fault through there and in texas did have a more kinda lasi fair whatever type mindset to it but Maybe what let's let's do here kinda close on You know listening to your stuff kind of simplifying it down. I'll put this scenario out here and see see if we agree but it sounds like potentially if we stopped injecting water here pits Or otherwise potentially the the problem dissipates. Potentially the groundwater is save. And i'll i'll put a little astros next to that 'cause chris i think you'd say hey. There could be other problems here. That i don't know about the like but you know if that's if that's the solution which protects the groundwater i mean i think you're right chris. What did pits pay for this. Two three four million bucks That doesn't sound that expensive to make the problem. Go away but i'll leave it there and give you twenty guys. The last word. I have that that's fine. I think it's unfortunate narrow that the pits bought a lame duck. Fields chevron didn't didn't really publicly disclose all of the challenges of yesterday's field in the documentation of all the stuff Now you could blame him for his team for failure to the diligence really truly risk assess stuck with their buying a price. They were getting at But again you know this notion that the big boys sell-offs software smaller guys and that you know. Let's say this goes bankruptcy because the next one comes to surface crates like ashley and is unremarkable. And it's a constant services to the san andreas to surface. She ends up with a wink sink in a court chain link fence around the property groundwater now permanently fox like it's it's is in bankruptcy litigation our night. This is the problem this data texas. This is the problem. With the the whole model of selling off the liability had just been the gulf of mexico repealing federal and it would roll back to the previous operator so chevron on the hook for in this narrow to me. Hits didn't cause these problems in the last night he days no matter how bad their due. Diligence was steve. Incidents teams did knock knock here. Willingly caused crop la or do or do any internet on a single intervention. I mean they changed a couple of days. Valves installed ages and done some basic stuff on the pump. Jacks but like they haven't done any work so everything that was here was already here. Based on what gulf oil aka chevron it turned over to Over the last couple of years. And i think that the estes twenty situation that came when we found out this week that there was a ball out here six months ago. I really think that that chevron had impetus to just to try to fire sale this to somebody who was willing to take the liability and the problem is that since the twenty four blue route ninety days after they've got acquisition and before the one year you know conditions in the closet the lease term execute in terms of long term liability. I think it's got a great case chevron tough ship you know twenty years the twenty four years. It's a plug and abandoned. Well let's come back to life. And i'm scared to death to see what happens when on earth the five the age and the Seven the original list as well as with sixteen casing designs. They don't have ninety five Isolated and if we find out that those are the causation. That's your direct link to one hundred fifty five feet into the santa rosa water table. So chevron this handled this event from the start in terms of how they did the twenty nine notifying ashley though site remediation on the twenty twenty four ends up having surface expressions. They lost a fair about getting out here to get sorted out send a crew out with a nice sweater. They don't they honor the well. There's all we'll come back monday with wellhead crew and will sort it out. No you'd better leaking. Well that's going to start in the wac groundwater you're gonna take care of it now Things like that. They really screwed up enforcement of just did nothing. But this ashley off to level the great. Which i if i was in her. She used i. I think i would have been a lot worse than she has But in the same token then they improved like got the situation under control. We were getting rob.
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"My personal ceiling is that want one or more of these injectors got leaking annual or isolation as long cross load occur but again until you re entered the injectors you can't prove that cross low model right and then the other thing is that which which is legitimate that chevron started water infection in the field in the sixties these wells didn't have the greatest case in designs relations. Was there a possibility that some of these wells during the water injection for the water flooding could have caused a crossover curve from over pressurizing. The san andreas in the water flood. I mean they produced about a million and a half barrel oil from the nineteen sixties onwards. They injected four and a half million barrels of water. That that over that over volume ejection versus what you took out on a daily basis over the course of fifty years has added up to a hell of a lot of water so is the san andreas water flood across swelling into the shallower intervals. That that may be circumstance. Sorry i'm not ruling that out either. But i i. I definitely agree with the the natural state of what occurred between thirteen. Twenty six thousand. Four hundred ninety five did not exist in nineteen fifty. Five did not exist in nineteen ninety-five. Yeah so either. You gotta rogue ejection. Welsomer out there again. I mean if you got pressure like that do if it's continuous sand body does not localize fourteen hundred feet in In that that pressure would dissipate over that areal extent over a long enough time line You know so It's pretty weird than that. You could have that volume at that depth. That pressure in a localized 'cause it's not like it got shut off ten years ago and you still have that pressure. I mean that dissipates over that time line so You know. I think that's an interesting question rate. They would be. I seemed like you said there's a cordial disposal offset. But it has to be injecting zimmer. Deeper ronin yeah. But it's you know is it. Is it plausible Thank like a gay like that zone would take the volume that they wanted. They set the packer higher. Shot you know sand. They weren't goes to now. They're getting into that. I don't think that's an unfeasible scenario. Like you know like that would be an interesting question. I think. I think if i were looking at it from that perspective in you looked at wears their active injection happening in this field. And what is the web design on those wells right like okay i would. I would contend that as it gets closer to surface it gets it in worse shape so it would be hard to jack. That thousand psi surface expected to go down to the zone that you know you hypothetically thought you were rejecting into and then it circulated up in then. Have some kind of containment that so that you don't have annual pressure at surface then make it injected fourteen hundred would be really unlikely to me so within that con- i mean if you had an extra strength casing in it maybe that becomes possible. You had some kind of intermediate but would guess again that. That's probably less likely. Also so i mean i just feel like then you're saying i'm really really got a couple of possibilities But either one of them probably lends itself to. There's an injection while going on out there. That is in the area that somebody's in his own. They shouldn't be in like you know. Is that going to cause issues Would that create issues in terms of what the injection or what the plugging and abandoned procedures were of course. Because that's you know how The railroad commission defined right. Like if they were going to say like there is an active injected deductions zone at fourteen hundred feet. Therefore you need to cover it up with cement whenever you plug these wells and so i would assume that because there's nobody supposed to be injecting into that zone that you wouldn't have that procedure in you're plugging and so you know. What issues does that create. If somebody's breaking at rule would be completely different conversation than the one or having in in if that's the case then whoever that person is should be locked trouble i mean that's that'd be serious stuff agreed and i would say that you know. I think we've done a pretty deep dive. On the potential scenarios of either water-injection. Our water flooding across the the problems doubts that where mission it forcing a temporary restraining or or a cease-and-desist Sowing the job. I did and chaos and in east texas the operator had a well was drilled in ninety three entered the water disposal wells about five miles away injected eighty six million barrels of produced water in this. Well we were on a cross slow from thirty six hundred feet. Thirty eight hundred feet. Two thousand seats About ten million barrels process based on the reservoir model and lyric mission at the time in that district pretty much said it's the operator's fault for not designing well in nineteen ninety three before the water disposal came on for failure to have adequate isolation for potential risk of of the austin shocking expos for water disposal The engineers that designed well would have lifted column or devi job to about isolation on their head. They know it's going to be a future problem. But that was never the case. They drilled it with eight six water based mud. And you know again drill the travis beacon cotton valley zone slice it. There was never a risk of the time in ninety-three when richly drilled miracle rushing around blamed the operator for lack of angela 'isolation causing crosswalk And i have to say the rare.
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"In burying their head in the sand. Just a i i would. I can't. I can't across that without like hard. Actual real data like this just a bridge too far from me for chevron Like they do that. So let's let's. Let's get into details at so twenty blows out december tenth notice by a the ranch foreman four. Am on his way to work. Cattle calls and notifies the ernst response number that well is falling right. We believe mardi is one who found bs. Twenty flowing across the road chevron does not notify ashley chevron does not notify the railroad commission according to their own reports there is no mention of the railroad commission in any of the discussion upon us. What was happening and ics was stood up. They did amount and have merged response. They did clean it up. There was no. Ron watt remediation. Let let's assume the well just load for the five days reporting mardi truly caught it on the tenth of december. Listen by the fifteenth headed captain and secure it right in that five days and fourteen hundred barrels. That means the well would have flowed out eight thousand barrels. Give or take a bit bigger. The back truck report says something like five thousand barrels of water collected off the grounds still. It's a reasonably. There's three thousand barrels that were spilled at surface. There's line of dead mistreat six months later. That's very clearly indicated on the rancho. Does you come in and see the twenty location. Where's the groundwater monitoring wells for the three thousand barrels service whereas the site remediation plan for the three thousand barrels and restoration of mosquitoes that they put right six months later. I haven't seen a plan. There's still nothing documentation as twenty four. We're told were supposed to get a four or five monitoring well can't drill campaign drilled around the twenty four to determine the airline stand of the possible subsurface into the surface aquifer and also wounded the rossler and then there's a huge soil blowing up all the cliche disposal for all the messes that made on the twenty four work Remediation upliftment abandoned operation and and there were a lot spills like we headlined flow. We had we had failed. Leaks was mud matt's etcetera etcetera. So they got a lot of dirt work to do around locations well again. Not atypical component of our business. But again there has to be a form of planet to what live and how this done still haven't seen it now. I i worked. Chevron i worked for the business units i believe a lot of what they say is what the truly enacting what they do and i got to say. It's a really hard to look at the snow and say is this really sharp like this. This is not the chevron we deal with on a regular basis but remember this business. Unit is the environmental management company. That doesn't have to follow the soap's chevron corporate dnc the mc bu business unit out of midland has a has to fall with corporate guidance. I worked for our goals mexico. I've worked for more. see aberdeen. The we have global appease that have be violent executed according to global global standards. Emc doesn't have follow sharp over guts. Ep ex and be paid. It's kind of like seo. Exxon that's never been corporated. Exxon because actually open never meet exxon's for guidance on their well-designed sender documentations. How they do what they do. So emc is given somewhat about a leniency. Pass here on having to follow the strict chevron dnc corporate sob's. I i think if you look at it from outside chevron you say. Emc is thing as mcp you. But they're not the two totally different business. Units one works for the real estate company. One the drilling completions purpose. Then there is really hard to grasp that this circumstances because emc not because the way chevron dnc words. And that's what got me. A bit puzzled is that it is hard to grasp that chevron would act so differently than their other counterparts but the data that we have in front of us and their action plans and what they've submitted isn't following chevron four brigades so again there's a lot of very strange things about this. The fact that like i said earlier i was a bit ignorant in thinking that chevron was just discovering at is the first time soon across load in this. This field had surface expressions. Well no it's that the engineers and the people that were involved were just out on the twenty months previously. The wanna want is just right behind the also was in well-controlled and ironically couldn't get to the workover on that well because the road was flooded out from the estes twenty blowout so it's not like it's not like chevron internally didn't know this field was a disaster now i don't know how how you quantify that from their internal documentation without a massive amount of litigation discovery. But there's a part of justin. It really stinks. When you look at it and say we'll knew you had a dog. You sold off liability in this one came back Will then why didn't you just stuck. The bits wants to say the them eight you sold it took liability old. Well sister problems. Why would you take ownership of. Yeah i mean. I i don't disagree with you on that. I mean it seems to me like the easiest thing to you because this field is i mean. I don't remember the exact number of the production. But when i like that it's basically almost dead. Anyway i i just if i were in his shoes and if i thought i was creating this issue by my injection you know a. You'd probably shut that injection off in that field. You know i'd probably go back to chevron delight whatever. I paid you for this field. I'm online back. It's probably the only three million dollars or four million dollars. I don't know probably minimal amount of money in. Frankly if you shut the injection off. You'd probably whether there was other plugging issues. Whether there was future groundwater contamination issues that could occur. You would just never You'd never get there because you wouldn't be adding pressure into the reservoir with the injection and they weren't agreement that the first step is going to be the half get somebody off center. Whether it's chevron fits or roaf mission somebody to shut it in the injections and say does that have any effect on dissipating in the pressure in the energy is that second thing is and i and i don't disagree with you on this chris. That from ashley's point of view. It's about protecting from six hundred feet right. If you wanna leave the underground broaden a complete cluster. Fuck that that that's fine. He my guest right. It's not technically in her interest. As long as it doesn't contaminate above the salatto into the wrestler. She doesn't give a damn about the subsurface finishing because not great right because it does lead to risk potentially whether other wells but if it is truly contained in the dwell designs chrysler you could say okay but the problem is when you go look at the old gulf oil sixteen inch casing designed thinks that at one hundred fifty five at nine five eight. It's not isolated across fourteen hundred eight hundred fifty five if that pressure fields communicating through the through that interval near the sixteen inch designs. You've got the risk loss cross. Slow from fourteen. Seventy five enroll all the way up to one hundred fifty five feet. But i think we agree that that fourteen hundred interval is the pressure. That's is due to cross flow from a deeper zone injection right. I wouldn't disagree. It's it's hard to imagine anybody. Nobody legally permitted to dispose of water at the tansel unit. So if somebody is injecting his hansel petroleum violation of the railroad commission so on the permited wells. That are tactic. Aren't acting into the san andreas. Or they're injecting into the devonian or the know injecting into other other.
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"Safety matters responsible operators. But you know it just takes a few bad apples to sit there and ruin it for for all of us with really dire consequences absolutely and i think you know. I think this'll be a good test. Like chevron does want to walk the walk and talk the talk and make this right like mike worth get out here to the permian and let's discuss this If chevron wants to lawyer up and defend themselves and everything then like you know what. Let's tear them to pieces like mike. You sitting at a cynic subpoena hearing at some point. We're going to be having the same conversation. So i said this earlier this morning. Like mike worth we. We're gonna talk at some point. It's either going to be in the privacy of my dining room and we can figure out a way forward on this in the family for for myself and for other landowners and and try to maybe create a little bit of a new framework for how we can do this. The right way or we have a conversation in front of a very hostile congress. That really hates you and it won't be good for either of us so you know we'll see we'll see what kind of character he has But so far. I'm not optimistic ashley. I'm really sorry about what you and your family have had to go through on this than i do. Appreciate you coming on and telling your side of the story. I think it's an important story. And i think it's Means a lot our industry and and as you said. I hope chevron does the right thing here because it could be as bad as it's been potentially constructive For best chevron amfar industry to step up and do the right thing absolutely. We'll we'll thank you for for having me today. And lemme me. Let me discuss this. And i don't think these things they probably mostly get settled in a You know a conference room and never reached the light of day and and maybe some good can come out with this that it had to reach the light of day..
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"Site but they can speak the chevron personnel all day but like they literally the royal commission at this point is more concerned with itself looking bad then it is with actually protecting the citizens of texas and regularly known gas industry. The railroad commission inspectors on the ground. Great they are hard working they want to do what's best Like they intend to make things better. But and this is what surprised me. They don't really have any power like the the operators treat the royal commission. I thought they would treat them like the rare crystals to do. We gotta do it. There are operators truth commission like you know your compliance at work if compliance is like you have to do your annual sexual assault training like. That's not like oh yeah. I'm hop twitter trouble. It's like all right. I'll get it like there is no one at this point that can actually make the industry move And i've i've been for this past few months. I've been filing railroad commission complaints in the whole railroad commission complaint process. It's you know. I file a complaint. They didn't have to go look at it and they say yes. You're correct. there's a crude spill over here. Like great i knew that and then they send a strongly worded letter. The operator a few weeks later and says we've seen that crude bill and we're really serious and we're going to expect it again but we're not going to look at it for thirty days but you really better be back there in thirty days and they'll go back and look and if it's not cleaned out they'll be like all right now. We're super serious. You better clean up the spill and the operator the whole time. Like i don't care like you almost certainly will not do anything doing so. Work mission it's toothless. It's just become it's become a Just a charade for the industry. Like i and i don't know how we fix. It is not like a simple. Here's a simple fix. But i i don't think that that organization salvageable i think you know the texas legislature needs to take a really hard look at this Going back to our credibility argument. And you if uh says texans aren't going to actually regulate our oil and gas industry than who is In completely redo.
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"Worry i had when i saw the red bucket is oh my gosh. We're doing it again. Yeah and and i think. I think that narrative like if chevron would've been responsive you know to to when i told them hey you spilled a bunch of brine water need to fix it back in december if they would be like. Oh hey sorry we screwed up in. They cleaned it up. And then this would have happened. I would have had some trust that like okay. I can call chevron i can say. Hey there's there's been an accident. I know they're gonna do the right thing. Another cleaned up but all i had seen up to. This is every time. I called them. You know clearly. The attorneys are saying. Don't say anything. And so. I had no faith in them doing the right thing. And and frankly. They wouldn't have unless i got on twitter. An absolutely started airing their dirty laundry to god and everyone. So you know i. I think i've thought you know. I feel like making a lawyer jokes. Cheap like attorneys. Our attorneys are always the no people they will always say. No but attorneys are only just advisers like if you are a business decision maker. You don't have to listen to your attorney. They're going to tell you the best course of action to prevail in a lawsuit if it happens which that's a concern but if you just treat people the right way you can head that lawsuit off at the pass like i think people inherently have an understanding of accidents happen. We're gonna make it right but accidents happen. We're going to shut up and not do anything. Well then that at that point like fuck you. I'm just. I'm coming after you like. I'm not gonna deal with shit. Will you know they ran a my dad's a doctor and They ran a study. And i forget exactly. Which university did it. But they ran a study of what doctors get sued forum. Why and ninety percent of the time doctors they get sued. It's one hundred percent because of their bedside manner are doctors made mistakes but had really good bedside manners and they never got sued and there are doctors that are arrogant pricks. That did everything exactly textbook correctly. And they wind up getting sued. And i i'm gonna bastardize a story here. Just a wanna protect details. But i know of a situation where a child was actually killed on a site. It was not the accident of the oil and gas company Fences were jammed. And and the like and the ceo to his credit when immediately to the family's house wrote a one hundred thousand dollar check and said in a and i know the ceo..
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"Just saturating the the different layers that like you said fifty three fifty two and eventually you'll get to the surface they'll start saturating the surface and we'll see it there we can come in and fix it but that point the damage is done and that's was going back to like if this was just a traditional pure blow out it would actually be better because it wouldn't sit there and you know do all of its damage before it makes itself At this point on these like by the time we see him. The damage is done in an i. I literally do not know how you clean out a freshwater aquifer or if it's even possible So i don't know if this can ever be undone and one more thing about about my mother that i didn't mention earlier After she passed away she was. She was cremated. And i wrote her ashes out and the sand hills are. It's my favorite place in the world. Like of all the land and all the ranches the sandhills at the northern part of the antena main side are my favorite place in our family's favorite place and so i- scattered her ashes there and you know fate has a cruel sense of humor. That is exactly where we're having all these problems with Pena's popping and wellborn collapsing and water wells being contaminated literally underneath the area where i scattered her ashes. So just it's horrific horrific. What's the game plan right now. What is chevron doing. What do you want chevron to do an ultimately is there a quote unquote favorable resolution to this in your eyes. I'm i want to compliment chevron which may not be what people are expecting The chevron of the last twenty four hours And this is friday and saturday Has been a completely different chevron and chevron of the earlier half of this week the chevron of the earlier this week was as bone headed on the response to this as you could have been they. I sent out The land man who had been lying to me In just been a complete prick and sent him on site and so i just kicked him out right away that i want. I don't wanna fucking deal with you. I'm dealing with a wealth blowing out of having my worst fears confirmed with my mother. Like get this.
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"What you'd imagine in the southern half is It's down towards the river and it gets much more rockier scrub your greece would Kind of more of transparent as type by him and there's really not great water table down under that transparent biomass and so the northern half the ranch in the water underneath oh sandhills feeds not only the the land right around it and its immediate area but then this pipes five to ten miles south across the ranch in the southern half of the ranch so if we lose our aquifers in the sandhills mike the is is less than worthless it is it is a liability at that point it is absolutely useless for habitation for cattle-raising for anything it is just a piece of dirt that's worthless. Yeah i mean that that was going to be. My my question is i mean. The aquifer is like a pool. You can't just in one corner of it. Not have the pego everywhere. I hate to be crass ex exactly in in. It's not you know our water wells. There aren't huge gushers. Like you get on the oglala and the panhandle like these are these are wells that are The water wells are much like the oil wells like they are just scraping by giving you enough to work with. There is physically not a ton of water. So if you if you pollute anything into it if not gonna get diluted and work its way across giant subterranean ocean like it will not take much to screw up that entire aquifer tell me about your mother's kinda history with the ranch. Tell tell me about her Work in working at the ranch and then Tell me potentially what the water supply may or may not have of had to do with your mother passing away. yeah. I think that's But certainly important part of the story because You know if we stopped here and nothing happened to my mother like this would still be a major concern like there is a ranch at stake like like it would still be absolutely a large concern money. It'd be a business concerning back. It'd be big lawsuit was chevron and it just it's it's a story you you're you can write it out yourself you you can see how that would have gone by With with the death of my mother. Yeah that that that's made it certainly more personal with the death of my mother that's made it certainly more personal So my my mother. Mary williams She's the side of the family. That i come by west texas ranching She's a native of monaghan. Her mother's native of monty hans My great grandfather is the one that establish this ranch. He was a cow..
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"But i just thought that might be helpful in terms of setting the stage of what's going on. Yeah in So last monday chevron After we'd basically threatened to sue them to clean up some other old spills and stuff That was much smaller than than what we've had erupted this week. They sent out to folks. They kind of said okay. Let's let's start talking about cleaning some stuff up you know in moving forward and then literally three days later The new pumper calls us and says there's something bubbling up I'm trying to contain it. Get it back down here starting to flow and it was Essentially our pasture starting to turn into a a marsh of this brine water coming to the surface. The the scary part. Is this this brian water of it's super corrosive. You here just water It is absolutely loaded with salt in a way. It'd be better if it was crude oil because crude if you dumped it everywhere yes. It's very nasty. Yes it's it's got some danger stuff in it but over time crew actually biodegrade bacterial eat. It it'll evaporate there's still stuff to clean up and you still have to make sure nothing gets down in your water table before it fired grades but it kind of takes care of itself overtime. Salt is actually the worst thing you can spill because it's permanent it it will never go anywhere for eternity like you know you can go back into the bible and when when they really hated someone they would salt their fields because there permanently useless so salt is actually From spill perspective What really scares me on. A on a long-term basis Certainly the zine and the chemicals in there are scary and another way. I'll get to that in a little bit but the pits bumper had called us and told us it was bubbling to the surface we call chevron and said hey you got a a. That's that's coming up. You need to fix it. And they told us. Hey out. we'll we'll get through in a week or two. Don't worry and so after jumping up and down screaming for a couple of days and yelling throw commission chevron finally sent somebody out on saturday. they put the The the now famous red bucket on top of it And and at that point figured out that this is more than just a little league. This is something. Structurally unsound underneath and called out Cut well controlled by sunday..
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"And it is destroying well casings. on a ranch there's been Peon as that have started using crude. There's been active wells that have had casing collapses like So many wells are strong pressure on the backside of the casing like something is going on and so we kind of thought this In in a way this thing was completely ironic timing because we'd been complaining to chevron about this and some other issues. They've they've just been awful operators and dumped shit everywhere and Had been complaining them for months and then they shut up on us and just stop answering in late march and what turned out. Is you know rather than deal with these complaints. They just sold the field out from from under us to a new operator Without even telling us or the the courtesy to to do anything so we had already sent them lawyered up cinema litigation hold. I figured i was going to end up suing chevron clip the ranch but I didn't i didn't realize exactly the extent of the problem at that point. And so chevron had seen out to folks Early last week probably on monday. Ashley let me cut you off just real quick and maybe step back just second and this can all be ballpark enough to be precise but just ballpark. Winded chevron drill the field on your ranch ballpark how many wells or there. How long you guys on the ranch. When did you first notice problems. So this We have four divisions we call this the antena meantime division as you can tell. It's kind of our main force in my. My house is here Chevron it's actually an interesting lease because chevron is the original se through gulf oil and the leasing nineteen twenty four lease and it is still in effect Most the wells or probably forties fifties sixties. Vintage i i do not remembering new. Well being drilled in my lifetime and i'm a fourth generation permian landowner But this is not the ancestral family land. We acquired this relatively recently in about ninety four or so. So we've owned this land ninety four We don't minerals. We've never had the minerals. We are just the surface owners. Have you been ranching land absolutely just Or were cal. Calf operation since. We're the first leg of the american beef industry. are tatler they're domesticated but they're basically semi. Most of them were born on that ranch they you know they're in relatively large pastures of two thousand three thousand acres They raised their calves there. And then once the cats are weaned we ship them off to market to get out and then turn into a beef in terms of catching you back up where where cut you off. Has there been historical animosity with chevron over this or is this a relatively new phenomenon. Yes there is definitely historic animosity out of our out of our water well system and we have about nine. Water wells We have one called the chevron. Well one called the new well and then we have to the new chevron wells in each one of those has been drilled on a previous time that chevron has screwed up a water source so You know we've we've had problems with them for years and generally they have treated us as most operators would..