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00:00This is ground zero boom and this is where you're you're toast and this is
00:05where you might be a little crispy. It's a hundred and twenty feet the center of
00:11the gas lines a hundred and twenty feet to the edge of the house. The main thing
00:17that destroys communities is having one damn industry control everything and it
00:22controls the politicians, it controls the school systems, it controls the banks, it
00:29controls everything in the area. You were at the mercy of them and then when
00:33they fail everybody fails. So you went from a handful of vehicles and school
00:41bus now and then to having hundreds and hundreds of trucks a day. You see the
00:48water buffalo? There's their water buffalo. There's a water buffalo. Never
00:55looked like that before. They come to town. If I walk on my property, if I would
01:03walk up that field right now there would be four trucks on that pad so fast like
01:07I am a criminal in my own property. There's been several occasions that
01:12we've had to evacuate on spur of the moment. We basically just fled. It really
01:17feels as though we really don't have any property rights. Ultimately if there are
01:22minerals under your property and they want it they're gonna get it one way or
01:26another and where do you go? It's just it's a big fight. I mean this is a
01:314.3 billion dollar pipeline. I'm just a little man with a family. I have invested
01:40a lifetime of work here. You do all this work, develop this attachment and somebody
01:48comes and takes it away from you and relatively the blink of an eye.