Yeah...
The reporter I followed and spoke with infrequently was Benjamin Starrow.
He'd interviewed Ed Presley several times and wrote numerous articles based off his interviews.
At this point, all an investor in HPGS can do is assume that Ed Presley mismanaged HPGS and he's mismanaged shareholders/investors/landowners.
Personally, I don't see how a man builds up so much just to quit as Ed has seemingly done.
The wells have been taken...High Plains is all but shuttered, and Ed can't even pen a letter to shareholders telling them that he's beaten and has quit.
I know for a fact he had poor consulting team. He had "yes" and "feel good" charlatans telling misleading him, and he then mislead state regulators, investors, and reporters based on poor consulting.
I'm not relieving him of responsibility for the failure of HPGS to get a simple job done, just acknowledging that there were other hands in the cookie jar.
Bottom line...
The stock is a total loss. It's currently sitting dead. $0.0000 with no bid and no ask for days now.
It's a matter of time before it's an invalid symbol and it's because, despite being a nice guy...Ed Presley is a quitter.
