Aaron Jordan, Black Water Environmental, shares an update from Wyoming’s energy scene. Jordan explains how they have had to diversify themselves during the COVID-19 Shutdown.
The interview dives into the balancing act of adding new services while losing employees and how to make two dollars work like five. Behaviors and actions of ingenuity and general scrappiness are discussed as personality traits that are surviving the coronavirus epidemic.
Jordan opines on the context of “hope”. Host Jason Spiess pontificates if whether there will be a major issue when the all the “hope” talk clashes with the “herd mentality” industry has been famously known for. Jordan says the word “hope” isn’t allowed in his office anymore due to public change in context.
Mark Fox, chairman, The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, is demanding the Department of Interior uphold its duty as the tribe’s trustee and restore justice regarding the tribe’s Missouri River property rights.
The MHA Nation contends that the Department of the Interior violated treaties going back to 1825, by issuing an opinion that overturned three prior decisions from the department.
Fox said the tribe is demanding the department to withdraw the opinion, saying historical precedent shows the tribe owns the rights under the riverbed within the boundaries of the Fort Berthold Reservation. He says the state hasn’t been interested in the minerals until the oil industry spike their value.
According to Fox, there are “hundred of millions” of dollars tied up in escrow. This has created strain on funding their construction projects, school remodeling and other community projects that have begun and are in well past the planning stages.
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