you understand there is an 8K with an employment contract and that he has been and continues to receive $1/year until there is an operating permit?
You realize that he then has a set salary and stock options ties to $4.89 strike price.
As a detail of corporate governance, the BOD controls his compensation. As controlling shareholder, the BOD serves at his pleasure. He and they have acted on this matter and, barring a renegotiated employment contract, that is that.