The air permit was a $100 fee - once again much Ado about Nothing.
Hiring 400 people - I hope you are kidding - where is the funding - MMEX can't afford a Happy Meal without toxic funding.
Hanks has promised much and delivered very little.
A one man pinky company without any assets or revenue isn't going to obtain the financing to build a oil refinery - this is pinkyland nonsense - no serious investors believe that Hanks is going to build a refinery.
Embedded here is a screen shot from TCEQ’s permit database system.
As should be clear to anyone with more than two neurons to rub together, MMEX-scam has a single Type O AQP, and there is no new activity to reflect any petition to amend, nor has any new application been submitted.
With the realization that the MMEX STRONG have many challenges, factually soil boring is not a requirement for obtaining the administrative permit - TCEQ’s FAQ on the matter clarifies start-of-construction for applicants, to define what activities fall under the permit, vs. those that fall outside of what the permit covers.
As has been pointed out many times, "the Town" is irrelevant - The City of Fort Stockton is an incorporated municipality type of city, not "Town," and MMEX's facility does not lie within the territorial, or extra-territorial jurisdiction of the City of Fort Stockton. The City of Fort Stockton has absolutely nothing to do with MMEX-scam in any regulatory, taxation, or other jurisdictional sense.