The Crude Life Morning Show: Play Hard Work Hard Episode 31
Hour One Play Hard: Boa constrictor bans in Florida, Industrial Forest talk, rolling blackouts in Minnesota, Texas grid issues and investigations and why does the media check-in with Bill Gates on Texas?
Hour Two Work Hard: Texas State Representative Brooks Landgraf, Vickey Leech and Raymond Hagen with HYDRA USA; and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum
The Crude Life Daily Update For the Radio On The Podcast: Colorado State Senator Ray Scott
Daily Rig Count
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HOUR ONE PLAY HARD: Sterling and Jason Spiess talk about the impacts of the Texas storms and how they are impacting other parts of the country. National conversations about nationalizing the grid, over reacting, sticking up for Rick Perry‘s comments and inflating a marketplace are just a few of the subtopics within the Texas Winter Storm talk.
The duo discuss the lack of leadership and awful enablement by the media and how dangerous it is right now. The media is supposed to be separate from the state and inform the mass with accurate information, rather the media is fanning the flames of Bill Gate’s speculation and negative rhetoric.
Florida’s ban on snakes is in the news and Jason wonders if they shouldn’t just adopt a zero tolerance policy on all snakes as pets in Florida. Talks about trout, pheasants and Asian carp as invasive species are also wrapped into the Florida boa news. Sterling comments on how powerful the “reptile lobbyists” have become.
Senator Ted Cruz is an easy target and everyone seems to be talking about it, including Inspired Travel. Jason opines about how this is part of the problem with the media today. SportCenter getting political, travel sites having to produce content with manufactured storylines and mayors telling the Feds to buzz off are also discussed in detail.
In HOUR TWO we WORK HARD with our Newsmaker Interview:
Texas State Representative Brooks Landgraf, Vickey Leech and Raymond Hagen with HYDRA USA
The three join Jason and Sterling to give an update from Texas. Landgraf recaps the past week and explains where the grid failed and how areas of leadership failed as well.
Leech shares her story about living without water, power outages and drinking Kentucky water. Hagen talks about how HYDRA USA is assisting communities with their clean up efforts.
In HOUR TWO we WORK HARD with our Newsmaker Interview: North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum
Summary written by content correspondent Genneca Houser
We jumped right into some great conversation about the Energy Industry in North Dakota since the Biden Administration has taken over. Many changes have taken place just since January 20th including President Biden signing Executive Orders that would otherwise cripple the Energy Industry in varying ways. Governor Burgum discusses the multiple ways North Dakota is looking into pushing back and the actions being taken to make a stand for keeping North Dakota oil and gas America strong.
“[There are] certainly a lot of challenges and a lot of headwinds for the energy industry and we’re doing everything we can in North Dakota to fight back against that and make sure that we’re fighting for American jobs, American manufacturing, for appropriately priced gas at the tank to help hard-working American families, and everything we can to keep our economy strong and our country strong.” – Gov. Doug Burgum
With the Keystone XL Pipeline shut down right now, there are even more issues to consider than the immediate job loss, revenue, and energy infrastructure problems. Gov. Burgum talks about the scary idea that a precedent was just set – one that allows for the federal government to shut down huge projects that have not only been in the works for years, but also have been running efficiently for years.
“This is another thing which I think should be chilling to all Americans in every industry, not just the energy industry. But, the attack against a legally permitted infrastructure is going to make it very difficult to raise capital.” – Gov. Doug Burgum
We move on to talk about the recent cold snap that resulted in electrical grid instability in different parts of the country and how it may impact policy and procedure in the energy industry as time moves forward. Governor Burgum also outlines the flaws in the current plan to shut down production in the United States while allowing other countries to pick up the slack and produce in our place. Governor Burgum highlights the need for innovation and progress when it comes to utilizing the captured carbon and helping to solve emissions problems that the current “solution” (regulations) simply won’t fix. Plus, he talks a bit about Project Tundra, an initiative to build the world’s largest carbon capturing facility in North Dakota!
“Well, I think that because the impacts are so severe, both on states and on jobs, and on the private sector and on communities, that you are going to see action.” – Governor Doug Burgum
“The federal government’s sitting on the sidelines right now on this and like I said, they’re spending tens of billions of dollars providing tax breaks for intermittent power sources which are part of the issue we have with this grid instability and they’re spending almost nothing supporting the innovation around ‘how do we actually come up with solutions’…” – Governor Doug Burgum
It’s been an exciting month, to say the least. The best anyone can do is to continue moving forward and now for the energy industry to move positively forward, Governor Burgum says that both education and political action will be necessary.
“We’ve got a lot of positive things we can keep fighting for and I’m confident we’re gonna’ represent our states well in this battle. ” – Governor Doug Burgum
Check out these links for more information
North Dakota EO 2021-02 – Burgum directs agencies to evaluate impacts of Biden administration’s executive orders on energy industry
Burgum urges U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to allow DAPL to continue operating during EIS review
Letter from Gov. Burgum regarding the DAPL Pipeline
Colorado State Senator Ray Scott gives an overview of the reasons, realities and rationales behind Weld County wanting to succeed from Colorado and join Wyoming.
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