In a special emergency episode, Nick Welsh takes a deep dive into the politics of oil, Santa Barbara’s most long-running, consequential and roiling local conflict

In a special emergency episode, Nick Welsh takes a deep dive into the politics of oil, Santa Barbara’s most long-running, consequential and roiling local conflict. In a sprawling and in-depth conversation with the genial host, the Angry Poodle leads off by reprising his latest blockbuster exclusive story, which disclosed for the first time the threat by the Sable Offshore oil company to resume barging oil from its offshore platforms in federal waters -- unless local and state officials immediately acquiesce to its demand to reopen the antiquated pipeline that ruptured and caused the 2015 Refugio spill. It’s a detailed and substantive one-on-one discussion that deconstructs, demystifies and disentangles the multitude of threads in the contentious Sable oil story.