The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors meets next Tuesday at 9:00 PT to vote on the $XOM to $SOC permit transfer. Link below. Does anyone still care?

An absolutely brutal take: “Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that’s what foreclosure is.” – J. P. Morgan

$SOC Dintzer: The CCC knows nothing about values. They may know something about sea otters, or clams, they know about clams, but they know nothing about valves. Judge Anderle: <smiles><suppresses a laugh> Clams are... bivalves!

Here ya go:

$SOC Anderle Zoom hearing is pretty wild this morning. The sidebar comments are off the rails, as are the user names. FYI, the current case has the defendant crying.

Anderle finds for the CCC because “maintenance” might be REconstruction, and that requires a new CDP.

$SOC Ruling for CCC “By including “reconstruction” as separate from “construction,” it is reasonable to conclude at some point the extent of maintenance of a project would move from construction to reconstruction …requiring a CDP separate from the CDP authorizing construction.”

$SOC Berkeley scientists discover "geologically driven, natural oil seeps are a major contributor to California’s greenhouse gas emissions. And drilling—long seen as the problem, not the answer—might be a panacea for emissions." “The crazy thing is, by stopping oil and gas

$SOC Bloomberg: It’s “absolutely on Trump’s agenda,” Flores said in an interview. No paywall link.

We are closer in time to Cleopatra than she was to Narmer, the first pharaoh, 3100 BCE.

$SOC This links to an important petition urging the California governor to restart Sable’s pipeline. Your signature is urgently needed.

$SOC Put your signature on the petition. Send @CAgovernor a message. Stop Rainforest oil. Enable Sable! Open the pipeline. Unleash the OSFM. Link below. https://t.co/jaw7pPCvlH

$SOC FLASH: Intercepted communique from Linda Krop exposes green strategy against Sable’s “trump card” tanker plan.

$SOC BREAKING: SB-237 does not apply to Sable’s pipeline. By definition it cannot be considered idle, inactive, or out of use if it has been actively maintained, repaired, hydrostatic tested, or had sections replaced, regardless of oil transported. AI summary:

$SOC Rainforest oil! Of course. What else would California use? “California is responsible for 50 percent of the oil related deforestation in Ecuador as the largest single importer of Rainforest oil.” – The Independent!!! @GovPressOffice @CAgovernor

Forbes is literally comparing your state to West Africa and you want to run for president? Lmao $SOC @CAgovernor https://t.co/rUBICwUDXu

$SOC Sable just bypassed the CCC, the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors permits, the EDC, the OSFM, Wishtoyo, Save the Bay, Jane Fonda, Elaine and Oprah, Anderle, Geck, the Angry Poodle, Rabbit Lady, SB-237, Krop and Capps, Noozhawk, and The Independent! Mua ha ha ha ha!

$SOC The receipts including a photo of Sable’s FPSO, where it will be moored – visible from scenic CA Highway 1 – and the letter to Secretaries of DOI and DOT.

$SOC 8K “Additionally, the Company issued a letter to the DOI and DOE, requesting support to proceed with the permitting and installation of a floating, processing, storage, and offloading vessel (FPSO).” https://t.co/uIuoRyxsjb

$SOC Barges and a new investor deck. Things are getting real for the Newsom and the environmentalists. No mention of a takings claim, yet. https://t.co/nHHtBQVr0t