Podcast appearances and mentions of Andrew Thomson

Andrew Thomson, President and CEO of Palamina (TSX.V:PA & OTCQB:PLMNF) joins me to share his insights into Palamina's plans this year a the Company's projects in Peru, and provides analysis on current market conditions, including the impact of Trump's 25 percent tariffs on Canadian businesses, the dynamics of the strong U.S. dollar, and the implications for American investors in Canadian resource companies..    He highlights the unusual combination of a strong U.S. dollar and high gold prices.. Andrew shares his personal investment success stories, emphasizing the importance of high-grade discoveries. The conversation delves into the current market trends, the role of major and mid-tier companies in driving investment down to junior stocks, and the challenges posed by a lack of retail interest and stringent regulations.    To close out the interview, Andrew provides insights into Palamina's drilling plans at its projects in Peru, alongside a broader commentary on the market potential of silver and other commodities.   If you have any follow up questions for Andrew please email me at Fleck@kereport.com.   Click here to visit the Palamina website to learn more about the Company.

Interview with Andrew Thomson, President & CEO of Palamina Corp.Recording date: 20th December 2024Palamina Corp (TSXV:PA), a Canadian junior mining company, is focused on making significant gold discoveries in Peru's under-explored Puno Orogenic Belt. The company has recently completed a 2,300m drill program at its flagship Usicayos project, where it encountered high-grade gold intercepts of up to 24 g/t.Led by President Andrew Thompson, an entrepreneurial geologist who has successfully sold eight companies including Soltoro Ltd. to Agnico Eagle, Palamina benefits from a highly experienced management team. The company has strategically assembled a large land package comprising seven gold and copper-silver exploration projects in the Puno Belt, an area attracting increasing interest from major mining companies.The company's recent progress includes constructing a new access road to the Usicayos project, which is expected to help reduce drilling costs to $300/m compared to the $600/m average in Nevada. This cost advantage positions Palamina to accelerate its resource definition efforts when drilling resumes in 2025.Beyond its gold assets, Palamina is developing a significant copper-silver portfolio. The company plans to spin these assets into a separate subsidiary to maximize shareholder value. A key asset in this portfolio is the Pluma project, acquired from Aurania Resources in September 2024, which lies along trend from copper-silver deposits being explored by Hannan Metals.The company also holds strategic land positions in the Santa Lucia district, near Aftermath Silver's Berenguela copper-silver project. This district has attracted significant investment from major mining companies and could provide additional value through discovery or strategic partnerships.Palamina's investment case is strengthened by its tight share structure and the backing of prominent resource investor Eric Sprott, who owns 12.3% of the company. With a market capitalization below C$11 million, the company appears undervalued relative to its asset portfolio and upcoming catalysts.Near-term catalysts include ongoing drill results from both the Usicayos project and its 15.4%-owned Gaban project being advanced by Winshear Gold. The company is also positioned to benefit from potential copper-silver discoveries by other companies in the district.Operating in Peru, Palamina benefits from the country's supportive stance toward mining and recently streamlined permitting processes. With no national elections until 2026, the company enjoys a stable operating environment to advance its projects. Despite the current challenging market for junior miners, Palamina's strategic position in an emerging mineral belt, combined with its experienced management and strong financial backing, presents an interesting opportunity for investors seeking exposure to both precious and base metals.

Andrew Thomson, President and CEO of Palamina (TSX.V:PA & OTCQB:PLMNF) joins me recap the initial drill results from the Usicayos Gold Project in Peru.    Despite some market disappointment leading to a stock drop, Andrew details the results from the Sol De Oro East zone and visual gold from the Sol De Oro South zone, explaining the scout drill program and encouraging consistent gold grades encountered. He dives into the challenges faced during drilling, the structures and mantos identified, and the enthusiasm around hitting visible gold and mineralized intrusives. Andrew also talks about future drilling plans, the importance of further tests, and the optionality within Palamina's portfolio, including their copper and silver projects and equity and royalty in Winshear Gold's project, being drilled currently.   If you have any follow up questions for Andrew please email me at Fleck@kereport.com.   Click here to visit the Palamina website to learn more about the Company.

Andrew Thomson, President and CEO of Palamina (TSX.V:PA & OTCQB:PLMNF) joins me to discuss the ongoing drill programs by Palamina and Winshear Gold (which Palamina holds a 15.45 interest and 2% Net Smelter Return royalty on the Gaban Project) in the Puno Orogenic Gold Belt in Peru. Palamina is about halfway through the 3,000 meter drill program, while Winshear has just started its 1,600meter program.    Andrew provides an overview of the holes drilled to date on the Palamina program and the targets being tested. We also discuss the major projects and deposits in the Puno Orogenic Gold Belt, see the map below.   If you have any follow up questions for Andrew please email me at Fleck@kereport.com.     Click here to visit the Palamina website to learn more about the Company.  

In this interview with Andrew Thomson, a Scottish seasoned professional in the energy sector, we delve into the multifaceted landscape of oil, renewable energy, and their global implications through a personal lens. Andrew shares his journey from working in the oil industry over 20 years to recently transitioning into nuclear and wind energy sectors. Through his experiences, he provides insights into the socioeconomic impact of oil, the challenges of transitioning to renewable energy, and the complexities of global politics that intertwine with the energy sector.Exploring Andrew's experiences working offshore in locations like Nigeria and Azerbaijan, the discussion uncovers the substantial influence of hydrocarbons and the cultural, socio-economic, and safety developments within the oil sector. The discussion delves into the critical role of energy across modern life, impacting everything from education to communication, while critiquing governmental actions on energy policies and advocating for a balanced energy strategy, similar to Japan's where currently works in setting up Wind Turbine Platforms (using much of the same technology as oil rigs). Furthermore, the dialogue highlights the philosophical and challenging practical shifts toward renewables, exploring political and economic challenges in this transition. Through Andrew's perspective, one can try to better attempt to begin to understand the global energy politics, the necessity of interdisciplinary approaches in energy careers, and the shifting dynamics in the energy sector.Time Stamps * 00:00 The Importance of Energy in Modern Life* 01:00 Introducing Andrew: From Oil to Climate-Friendly Energy* 01:46 Andrew's Background and Career Journey* 02:38 Life and Work in the Oil Industry* 07:34 Challenges and Dangers of Offshore Drilling* 10:54 The Culture and Lifestyle of Oil Workers* 20:58 Global Perspectives: Working in Africa and Beyond* 23:58 Corruption and Local Interactions in the Oil Industry* 38:09 A Costly Mistake and Cultural Reflections* 38:54 Corruption and Anti-Corruption Measures* 40:09 Cultural Differences and Acceptance* 41:13 Colonial Legacy and Historical Perspectives* 43:41 Nationalized vs. Private Oil Companies* 45:46 Transition to Renewable Energy in Japan* 46:12 Challenges in the Oil Industry* 48:22 Geopolitics and Energy Policies* 56:43 Experiences with Government Agencies* 01:03:56 Future Prospects and Peak Oil Debate* 01:08:06 Final Thoughts on Energy and PolicyHighlights and Quotes of Interest On Energy Source MixesJapan has a long term vision.It has a vision of a percentage mix of nuclear fossil fuels, renewables, whereas I feel like I'm fairly against it in my home country, in the UK, because we don't have a long term plan. We've had four prime ministers in the last two years. One of them wanted to build eight nuclear power stations, the next one to start fracking. I believe in an energy mix. I think there's a lot of irresponsibility talked about these days in terms of the energy transition. I do think there should be an energy mix.And then the one now wants to quadruple our offshore wind capacity in eight years, which is impossible. It's quite nonsensical. It's quite short term thinking. I'm not anti wind, I'm not pro oil, I'm not anti or pro any, anything. What I'm pro is a science based, long term, non subsidy, non corruption based market solution.On Incentives in Oil Vs “Renewables”So right now, it seems like oil is completely negative and then offshore wind is completely positive. You look at the motivations behind companies putting in offshore wind turbines or the service companies exactly the same as motivations behind all companies.Neither one is doing them. For anything other than to make money. And I think it's simplistic and a little bit silly to think that the boss of an oil company is some sort of J. R. Ewing, person that likes to run over puppies on the way home and the boss of an electricity company or a turbine installation company or whatever is some sort of, sandal wearing saint that doesn't care about money. Everyone in pretty much, I would say any corporation, that statistic about men are CEOs, they're psychopaths. All they care about is money. And I think there are a lot of like there's a lot of talk about subsidies in [renewables] On Oil's Beastly NatureIt only takes, one ignition source and then you're on top of a fireball…potential that the entire thing can blow up underneath your feet. On Life without Oil It's the world we have is impossible to have without oil. Sure. You can reduce it. It's going to run out eventually one day anyway.So reducing it is not a bad thing, but to pretend that you can just press stop and then you can put in a wind turbine is nonsensical. And the politicians know it's nonsensical as well.  The sheer scale of, Hydrocarbon involvement in our modern industrial life is so incredibly difficult to untangle. There's literally nothing more important than our energy because it ties into the availability of education and medicine and travel and communication. Right, without. some form of mass energy production. We're right back to the medieval ages.On The British State I speak from a very UK point of view because it's my country, it's my home. I feel As ever, the British state works against the British people, not for the British people, which is a contrast to some of the countries that we may look down our noses on a little bit more as not developed, where, and Japan is a great example of this, where Japan seems to do things for the benefit of Japanese people, which seems to be a controversial idea back home. Learning from Travel This is part of, traveling. You see so many countries where people are so proud of their country. Nigerians were some of the most proud people I think I've ever met, and it's the same in Japan. And I worry the direction our country's going, both the UK and the US, when we were raising a generation of children who are being taught to be embarrassed by where they come from. Though I really feel like in the West we've made a mistake over the years in trying to impose our way of looking at the world on other cultures.Post Interview Notes / Links from AndrewHere are some relevant links that might be of interest:"Empire of Dust", a fascinating documentary widely referenced online, but with no major release I don't think, that shows interaction between a Chinese contractor and locals in the DRC. It's a perfect example of culture clash, the strength in the documentary being there is no western-style narrative, it's simply two very different cultures interacting honestly with each other. The film-maker is Belgian which is particularly interesting given their colonial history in the DRC.Watch @ https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5gdfm4I can particularly recommend Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness if you're interested in the dark side of colonialism, or any history of DRC or Zaire as it was. One of my favourite films is Apocalypse Now, which along with the book perfectly makes the point I was trying to, which is how these cultures are manifestly different from ours, and any attempt to convert or run these societies in a western way will ultimately end up in failure, unless it's done by complete dominance, which of course, is wrong. It's a subject I find really interesting, and my experiences in Africa really changed how I view the world.On Energy Prices “Strike Prices” and Renewables Some links explaining the Strike Price for electricity set through the CfD (Contract for Difference) mechanism that guarantees a specific rate for electricity to renewables companies.https://www.iea.org/policies/5731-contract-for-difference-cfdhttps://www.eurelectric.org/in-detail/cfds_explainer/ It's quite hard to find a non-biased article explaining this, but the basic mechanism is:What isn't always mentioned is the "top-up" when the price falls is paid to the generators by the consumer, in the UK at least, in the form of a levy on the electricity price. Which is fine in theory to have a set electricity price, but currently the UK has the 3rd highest electricity costs in the world:https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cost-of-electricity-by-countryOn British Embassy Support (Weapons:Yes / Hydrocarbons: No)UK government ending support for oil and gas sector abroad:https://www.gov.uk/government/news/pm-announces-the-uk-will-end-support-for-fossil-fuel-sector-overseasBut no issue promoting UK weapons manufacturers:https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/3/15/uk-spent-1-3m-on-security-for-worlds-biggest-weapons-fairSubsidies provided to the oil and gas industry in the US: (this can be complicated to assess because the IMF considers environmental and health costs after production as an effective subsidy, whereas the OECD and the IEA do not)https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-fossil-fuel-subsidies-a-closer-look-at-tax-breaks-and-societal-costsCorrection on Refinery Capacity in NigeriaI was slightly mistaken, there is some refinery capacity in Nigeria, in fact it's the highest in all of Africa, however it is still around half of what Houston alone produces per day.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13203-018-0211-zOn Oil Piracy / Theft (Discussed During Interview as Another Source for Danger / Volatility / Environmental Damage) Oil pipeline theft still seems to be a problem in Nigeria sadly:https://www.pipeline-journal.net/news/explosion-nigeria-oil-pipeline-kills-12-shell-blames-crude-oil-theft-tragedyOn Working in the Pubic SectorI was thinking about one of your last questions afterwards, whether I'd ever work for the government. You know, I would actually love it, to be able to make some type of positive impact, I'd really enjoy that much more than my current job, it's just that what I would advocate is so far in the opposite direction of the UK foreign office and civil service's ethos (non-judgmental promotion of UK interest and people without imposing change on other countries) that I wouldn't get the opportunity. The British sitcom "Yes Minister" captures perfectly how the UK establishment works, it's from the 80s but still very relevant. It works to ensure the continued existence of the establishment, not the general population.AI Machine Transcription - Enjoy the Glitches!Andrew: The sheer scale of, Hydrocarbon involvement in our modern industrial life is so incredibly difficult to untangle.There's literally nothing more important than our energy because it ties into the availability of education and medicine and travel and communication. Right, without. some form of mass energy production. We're right back to the medieval ages.Leafbox: Andrew, thanks so much for making time for me. I know you're a busy guy. Yeah, I really appreciate it. Actually, when I first met you, I was actually fascinated with your work because you're one of the few people I know who has jumped from the oil sector to a climate friendly energy sector, I call it, so I was very curious about your perspectives on both. Having, your wife told me that you lived in Baku and that alone, it is probably a book's worth of questions. Andrew, why don't we just start tell us who you are, where you are, what's the weather like in Fukuoka? And where are you from?Andrew: Well, the most important thing the seasons in Japan seem to follow rules like the rest of Japan. So it's got the memo recently that it's not summer anymore, which is great because summers here are pretty brutal. And it's cloudy and rainy, which from someone from Scotland is nice and familiar.Yeah, I guess be brief biography. I'm Scottish from the North of Scotland. This is usually the point where someone says, well, you don't sound Scottish, but that's because I was born down in England. But moved up Scott, two parents from very remote rural part of Scotland. And we moved up when I was about six.So I went to the local university Aberdeen which at the time was the oil capital of Europe. So with a passion for engineering and a desire to Just have adventure really as a young guy wanting to see the world. Also oil is always historically been very well paid. Probably along the lines of, I don't know, market wise, your career options, lawyer, doctor, that sort of thing, which was never really my interest in an oil worker.So anyway financial motivations, adventure motivations, just an interest in big, heavy engineering pushed me in that direction. I joined, graduated, I took a master's in offshore engineering graduated and joined Halliburton about six weeks before 9 11. So this was in the year of of Dick Cheney, of course then I eventually ended up working offshore.For a company that worked on drilling rigs, doing directional surveys, so you would run drilling tools down the well and that was quite life changing, really very exciting. A lot of. Pressure. This is all gonna make me sound very old, but pre smartphone days. So you were a lot more on your own in those days.I did that for four years. Then I ended up running operations in Lagos, Nigeria. Did that for three years, joined a Norwegian company, worked for them in Aberdeen, and then again, oil service. And ended up running their operations in Baku and Azerbaijan. Then COVID came along and like for a lot of people turned the world upside down.So with the low oil price ended up being made redundant and Really struggled for about a year or so to find work and then it wasn't ideological either one way or another in terms of the energy transition, it's quite heavily marketed these days but I'm not overly convinced that it's as easy as politicians seem to say it is but I took a job for a company drilling offshore foundations.And I was working on a nuclear power station, the cooling shafts for a nuclear power station. And then I simply got a job offer one day an online recruiter to come to Japan to work on offshore wind which has some, Close. It's basically the same things I was doing, except it was in nuclear.So yeah, none of it's been a straight line or a plan, but just the opportunity came up. We really wanted to have another period abroad. So we took the move and then I find myself on a beach speaking to yourself after about a year or so. Leafbox: So Andrew, going back to university time, exactly what did you study? Was this petroleum engineering? Or Andrew: It was no, it was mechanical engineering. But being in it was Robert Gordon university in Aberdeen, but being in Aberdeen, it was very heavily oil influenced at the time. I was actually. obsessed with cars and motorbikes, anything with an engine. So I really wanted to do automotive, but I didn't have the grades to go to a lot of the bigger universities down South.And I was 16 when I went to university and didn't really want to go too far. So I did mechanical. And then that led on to a degree in offshore engineering at the same university, which was completely oil focused. Leafbox: And then Andrew, can you tell me a little bit about the makeup of, the demographics of when you entered the oil industry and especially in Scotland and what were these offshore platforms like, you have engineers with high degrees and then what about the workers themselves?Andrew: Yeah. Yeah. So, your average rig is made up of a lot of different job functions. At the top or guess with the most responsibility. So you've got your company that own the rig. They're the drilling contractor and they have their personnel the guy that manages the rig, and then they have all different personnel, including all the deck crew and all the roughnecks raised about, but then you have the oil company that contracts them.And they have someone offshore running it, but they have a lot of engineers. And then you have all these like service companies, which is what I've worked for that come in and do things. So you typically have on the oil company sides. You'd have someone with, degrees, you'd have like their graduate programs, you'd have young people coming offshore, their first time offshore, but they'd be quite high up relatively.And then you would have your deck crew, mechanics, electricians, which typically weren't university educated. And the guys right at the very top who'd be like, Oh, I am like the rig manager generally, especially in the old days, wouldn't be university educated, but they would just have worked offshore for a very long time.So that they'd be very knowledgeable and skilled in what we're doing. A lot of them took degrees as, technology increased. And it became, more important to have a degree, but especially in the old days, although I think at that level in that job, people wouldn't have had degrees, but you do have, it is a big mix between like I said, your deck crew and the people that are more like the, engineers, geologists, et cetera.And I can't speak for every region, but you do find that you've got, so say the comparative salary or career prospects of a welder, or a mechanic or somewhere you've suddenly got someone who could earn, I don't know, in the U S but in the UK, maybe Twenty five twenty twenty five thousand pounds a year.Maybe, like three years ago in their offshore making like 60, and it's I think it's the same thing in the U. S. you have people from very poor areas that can go offshore and just, quadruple more there their salaries and it's a, But there's a reason why they're, there's a reason why they're getting paid that is because it's a lot more difficult and dangerous when you're away from home and stuff. It's a strange old mix in a lot of ways. Leafbox: And then can you describe for people just what the actual dangers are? Give people an image of what these platforms are like to be on them and how to build them and the complexity of these devices.Andrew: There's so you have there's a lot of different forms, but basically you have a drilling rig. which can be like a semi submersible which floats or a jack up which legs are like sitting on the ground or you could even have a ship that comes like, it all depends on the the depth of the water depth usually.So you'll have this vessel that drills a well and then eventually, so they'll drill a number of wells and then you'll have a platform which is fixed to the seabed usually and then that can that has like a. A wellhead that connects all the wells and then takes the hydrocarbons on board and then it might pump it to another bigger platform or it pumps it to some like somewhere where it's processed and then it's pumped on shore.There's different. There's common dangers. Everything from there've been a number of helicopter incidents over the years. Generally, a lot of these rigs are so far away that you'll take a, you'll take a chopper backwards and forwards. And it's been well documented of things like gearbox failures and stuff.You're probably one of the biggest, I don't have the HSC statistics in front of me, but one of the biggest injuries are probably slips, trips and falls. Because, your average drilling rig has maybe four or five levels to it, and you're up and down stairs all day with big boots on and a hard hat and glasses and stuff, and people tripping on themselves.Obviously drilling, you've got well you've got a lot of overhead lifts, a lot of people get injured with the fingers getting caught between loads roughnecks, raced abouts on the drill floor when they're handling drilling pipe. I've met a lot of people over the years that have got one or more fingers missing, because it's very easy to get your finger nipped between two things are being lifted, especially when people put their hands on to try and direct them.And then obviously the pressure of the hydrocarbons look at deep water horizon, for example the oil and the gas, It's funny listening to your podcast with Jed about oil being sentient that the pressure that the oil is under.So when you tap into, obviously it wants to go, it wants to go up and out. And then that could literally rip a rig apart if it's not if it's not controlled. And then obviously you've got the ignition risk, which, you've got Piper Alpha in the UK and you've got, like I say, Deepwater Horizon, there's been a number of rig explosions and then going back to what I said about platforms.So Piper Alpha was a platform and that was processing gas. So you have 100 and 170, 200 odd people working and living. on a structure offshore where there are like an enormous amount of gas that's being pumped. extracted and pumped like underneath their feet and it only takes, one ignition source and then you're on top of a fireball.And I remember being offshore when they're flaring, which is a process whereby they burn off excess gas and just being stunned by the ferocity of the noise, nevermind the heat of the, that it's just like a primal hour, you, you can stand a couple of hundred. Yards away from it and you can feel it on your face, it's just, it's very different.I've been offshore on a wind turbine installation vessel, which has the same offshore industrial risks in terms of lifted injuries, slips, trips, and falls and suspended loads. But you don't have that. You don't have that like potential that the entire thing can blow up underneath your feet.Leafbox: So with this danger and this kind of. wild beast underneath you. How did the men and women respond? You had in your email, a little bit of this kind of cowboy culture. I'm curious what the culture of these workers are like, and maybe in Scotland and what you've seen around the world. If these people aren't usually they're more working class or what's the relationship with them and the engineers and yeah, tell me about that.Andrew: It's it's a very, it's a very masculine environment. That's not to say that there aren't women offshore in the industry. There, there absolutely are. And there, there are more and more these days especially in certain countries, like in Scandinavia, for instance But it's a very, especially when you get down to the deck crew, it's a very, the recruits are very masculine, very like macho environment.It's quite a tough environment. It's a very hard working environment. The it's not that people I wouldn't say a matter of fact to say the opposite in terms of people having a cavalier attitude to safety. There have been a number of incidents over the years in the industry and each incident spurred along quite a lot of improvements in health and safety.So I'd say probably in terms of. Industry, it's probably one of the safest industries, well, it's probably one of the industries with the best safety attitude. I'm sure maybe nuclear is probably up there as well, but people are aware offshore of the risks. There's a huge QHSE industry.There's a, most companies have some form of a HSE system, which allows anyone from someone who works for the camp boss, like someone who changes the sheets, the cleaners, the cooks to like the driller can stop operations if they think that something is dangerous and there can't be any comeback, and stopping operations offshore is a big deal.Because the average. Rigorate is, it fluctuates, but the average is, I don't know, a few hundred thousand, I don't know what it is at the moment, but let's say up to maybe a half a million more for the biggest rates, biggest rigs per day. That's what, 20, 000 an hour. So if you see something that's dangerous and you stop it for a couple of hours that's a lot of money.So it takes a lot of nerve to do that, but the industry has been pretty good. They have these systems called stop cards. Like I say, Different companies have different names for it, but it gives the ability to It gives you authority for someone not to be forced into doing something that they think is dangerous.So overall, I actually think the health and safety culture is quite good. But if you look at Deepwater Horizon, that was a classic example of even at the corporate level, people being frightened to say no and frightened to halt operations. So that does still persist due to the sheer amount of money involved.Leafbox: And then tell me about in your email, you had a quote line about, these workers spending their money, maybe not as wisely. I'm curious to describe and understand the cowboy. I have this image, my father worked for Exxon for a long time. And his biggest problem was piracy. They had so much issues with piracy, but this was in the Caribbean. So it's just constantly people stealing oil from them. So maybe yeah, tell me how it is now after I guess 2000s, how it's changed. You're describing this very safe sounding MBA driven culture, but I have trouble.Yeah. Tell me what it's like around the world. Andrew: So that's the sort of the day to day attitude offshore, which is pushed very heavily by the oil companies. It's a lot of recording. They record lost time statistics which also not to get sidetracked, but that has a slightly negative effect as well in terms of if a rig has, say.That they'll, quite often rigs will have a big display when you arrive and it says this amount of days from the last accident and if they go like a year without any LTIs, everyone on the rig could get like an iPad or some sort of bonus or something and it's a big deal not to have incidents that cause a loss of time and that, by that if someone has to go to hospital, someone has to leave the rig, but that also does encourage it can encourage hiding of things, someone maybe, they've smashed their finger, but can they just maybe report it, but maybe just go on like light duties or something rather than go to the hospital before, before their shift change sort of thing which does happen and it's not healthy.But anyway, to get back to your point I think it comes from, as I say it's, a way for someone who would have no other avenue to earn the amount of money that they would get offshore by taking on the additional risk and being away from home. So say an electrician, your average construction electrician wages are probably pretty good these days, but if you take someone working in, some rural place in, in the States who is like a car mechanic or something, and then they go offshore And they're multiplying their salary, but they're multiplying their salary, perhaps coming from an environment where no one's ever had that type of money.They're coming home with maybe try to think of some people I've known, hundreds of thousands of dollars a year when their salary may have been I don't know, sub six figures, but they don't come from an environment where that sort of money is common. So you then have a situation whereby they are the one person in their family or town or their local bar.who has loads of money, who's been away from home for four weeks, but he doesn't have the most stable relationship precisely because they're not at home, but yet they've got loads of money and loads of time. You can see how that can encourage perhaps resentment. Or just a feeling of alienation from that community.That sort of person, say they have a lot more money than their friends, maybe they want to buy them drinks, but then do they want to have to do that all the time? I've known people that have been divorced multiple times, that have bought boats and all sorts of things that they never use and they end up with, paying for There are families that they never see, the families that get remarried, the kids that they never see.I've worked with directional drillers that I've got a wife in one country, an ex wife in another country, kids that don't like them, and they just pay for all these families. They get onshore and then they spend the next couple of weeks with some, teenage prostitute blowing all the money on that drink for the rest of the month and then they're back offshore.the shakes and then they decompress over the month and then the cycle repeats itself. So in the one sense, it's a fantastic opportunity for social mobility, but it also can leave a lot of chaos behind it. And I'm certainly not at all. And having come from a work class background myself, I'm not certainly saying that.It shouldn't be there. I think it's a positive thing and it's up to these people what they want to do with their money. I'm just saying it's an interest in social observance that it's, you don't get that many working class people that can leave school and have a manual trade and can go and be a lawyer or a doctor or a CEO but you are all of a sudden getting these people in situations who are making the same amount of money, but without the family structure.Or the societal structure that can prepare them for that.Leafbox: Jumping to the next topic, I'm curious, you first mentioned Dick Cheney, what was your relationship, you're in Scotland, and how does that fiddle in with the Middle East? oil wars and just the general kind of, I feel like when my father worked in oil, there wasn't that much of a hostility in the general environment.It was just people drove cars and you worked in the oil industry and it wasn't that. So in post 2000, I would say things change both from the climate perspective and then from the kind of American imperialist association with oil. Andrew: It's changed massively in terms of hostility. Just, it's just like night and day. So when I graduated, I remember being at school in the early nineties and there was, I don't think it was climate, no, no global warming. It was called then. So there was discussion of it.But the greenhouse the ozone layer was the big deal. And there was environmentalism, Greenpeace was quite big at that time. But. The, there was no stigma like whatsoever into going into the oil industry. And you could see that in terms of the courses at the time they were called there was like drilling engineering courses, offshore engineering courses petroleum engineering.You go back to the same universities now and it's like energy transition. I think you'll struggle to find that many courses that have got the words petroleum or drilling in it. And also it was very easy to get a job in those days in the industry. The, yeah the Gulf War, so the second Gulf War at the time working for Halliburton, I was very conscious of, it was very interesting to me how the company was structured.So you had Halliburton Energy Services and you had KBR, Kellogg, Brennan, Root, and they were the company that won the uncontested contract to rebuild in Iraq. But the way the company was structured. Was that they were that they were split up basically. So if one of them had gone down the toilet for any of these issues, they were separated.I was very happy to join Haliburton. It was a big career wise. I thought it was very good. I look back now, it's funny how I look back, like inside, I look back on that whole Iraq war with absolute horror now, but I had grown up with Free internet with, what at the time were considered authoritative news sources with the BBC and British newspapers.It might sound naive, but you believe that people are doing the right thing. And I just thought at the time that, that, we were going into Iraq because it was a very bad person there. And I look back now, with I look at Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and all the things that have happened with absolute horror.But at the time it just seemed quite straightforward. My, my view on the oil industry hasn't changed in terms of, I, I believe in an energy mix. I think there's a lot of irresponsibility talked about these days in terms of the energy transition. I do think there should be an energy mix.I don't think it should be any one source of energy. But I feel like we're in the same position that we're in before except instead of it being everyone's desperate to make money out of oil. I think everyone's desperate to make money out of renewables these days. Leafbox: Well, before we jump to that point, I want to I think that's a big topic we'll go to, but tell me about your jump to Nigeria.You're still naive then, or eager help, Nigerian oil industry or what you get assigned to Nigeria. What's that like? Andrew: Well, so I so that four years of us, so the three years I worked for that company originally was on it was on an ad hoc basis. So basically I would be at home. I'd get a phone call.And I could, I had to live within 45 minutes of the airport but I usually got at least a day. Sometimes it wasn't, it will, it was literally a day. Sometimes it was like a week, but I would get a call and then I could go anywhere in a region was Europe, Africa, Caspian. So I could go anywhere.Most of it was in West Africa. So I would go and work offshore in the Congo. Not the DRC, but the Republic of Congo Gabon, Nigeria, but all over Europe and occasionally like the Far East. So I had a lot of experience of Africa at that point. My very first, one thing I did want to, I was thinking the other day, one thing I did want to mention was when I first went, in terms of naivety, when I first time I ever went to Africa was in the Congo.And I'd grown up in the eighties where we had Live Aid was basically anyone's kind of opinion of Africa. And I remember at school we used to be forced to sing Do They Know It's Christmas, like every Christmas. So that was everyone's opinion of Africa was like just basically starving children. And I arrived in the Congo.They've got quite a decent airport now in Point Noir, but when I arrived it was literally a concrete shed with arrivals on one side and departures on the other and just like sand on the ground. And I can't remember coming out of that totally by myself just with my Nokia phone with the local contacts phone number and all these little kids appeared like Tugging it, tugging at my trousers asking for money and I was absolutely horrified I'd never seen like poverty like that and I felt horrible that I couldn't help them.But it's funny how You not that I don't care about children, but you harden yourself to what the reality of life is like in places like that. And I did that for three years. I was in Angola rotating for a year. In Cabinda, which is a chevron camp. And then I I got the job in Nigeria.And actually my father passed away just before I got that job. So I was a bit rudderless at that point. I really enjoyed it got to me in the end, I was there for three years and I started to get very frustrated when I was at home, that's when I thought I need to make a change.But there's a sort of happy level of chaos, I found. It's. in Nigeria, where things are, they don't work in the sense that they would do in, in, in what you'd call, developed countries. You can't rely on things to work. You can't really rely on people in a certain sense, but there's a sort of happy, it's difficult to explain.Like it's just, It's a very chaotic place, a very noisy, chaotic place. But once you accept that it's quite a good laugh actually. I have some quite happy memories from working there. Leafbox: So Andrew, when you enter in these places you first described your kind of exposure to Congo, but how do you conceptualize the interaction between the Western oil companies and I guess the local developing country?Do you think about that? Or are all the workers local? Or is everyone imported from all over the world? And Andrew: There's a big move towards localization in pretty much any location I've been which is, which has changed over the years. So when I first started working say in Africa, as an example.Pretty much all of the deck crew, all of the roughnecks were all Africans or locals from whichever ever country you're in. But once you got to the upper levels, like the Western oil companies, you would have, so you'd have like drill engineers, which weren't. You might describe them as like project managers of the drilling operations.So there you would have kind of a mix of locals and expats, but you pretty much always find once you went above that to like drilling managers. You'd find all what they call company men, which are the company's representative offshore, pretty much always expats. That has changed over the years, which I think is a very positive thing.A lot of countries, Azerbaijan's like this, a lot of countries in Africa, Nigeria is like this. They put within the contracts, like a local content. So for a company to win the license and which is then cascaded down to the subcontractors, you have to have a percentage of local employees and you have to have a system for replacing your senior people, training up locals and replacing them over time, which I think is very positive because after all, it's there.Oil is their resources. There are in certain locations with certain companies, a pretty bad history. Shell Nigeria, for example. You can your listeners can look all this up, but there have been, various controversies over the years on the whole, I think on the whole, I think.that it's a positive for these countries because I look at it in terms of a capitalist sort of capitalist approach that, you know and it's almost like the thing that I was saying where you have like someone who comes from a family or a class where they are not exposed to money and all of a sudden they have a huge amount of money where you could say the same thing with some tiny country where by a that they've had a level of civilization and a level of like income over the years and all of a sudden someone discovers oil and there's no way you can reasonably expect a society to just, you can't take somewhere that goes from like tribal pre industrial revolution conditions and make it New York City overnight.It's just, it's not going to happen. And just expanding that slightly, I was in Papua New Guinea in the eastern part And up in the highlands on a well site a while ago. And that was fascinating because Papua New Guinea is still, it's a country, but it's still very tribal. So once you leave Port Moresby you're really, it's not like you're going to call the police if someone tries to assault you or call an ambulance or something.It's very much like I say, pre industrial revolution, tribal. societies, but they're sitting on billions of dollars of gas. So you get these little pockets of on the shore drilling rigs. And they're just pumping millions and billions of dollars worth of gas out from under your feet, but they pay the locals.And the site that I was on right at the top of the hill overlooking it was a big mansion owned by the who, as soon as he started drilling, he would get 10 million. And then, as I was informed, would probably disappear down to Australia and, enrich the local casinos and stuff. But, who is to say that is, would it be great if he built a hospital and built a school and improved the lives of everyone around him?Oh, of course it would. But who's to say morally that we Chevron should be, I understand the point that maybe Chevron should be building these things, but who is to say that the condition should be attached to what that chief spends his money on. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I I think I place a lot of responsibility on hydrocarbons are located.I do think there have been a lot of very negative practices by By all companies over the years, and they absolutely have a duty to maintain the environment. But I think it's a bit hypocritical. I see a lot of rich Western countries, especially now saying to a lot of poorer, undeveloped countries that they shouldn't be drilling or they shouldn't be, should be using the money differently.And I think, well, it's their resource. I look at it more from a capitalist point of view, rather than, like I said in my email, I'm quite anti interventionist in that sense. So historically I'm going to, this continues now, but there have been issues with literally, so they put these big pipelines through people's villages and the way that a lot of these things are organized is like I said, about Papua New Guinea they'll contact, the tribal chief and we'll pay a rent or some sort of fee to, to put these big pipelines through, through these small places.But there are some times when, I haven't, I, the right tribal chief or they've not paid enough or there's some sort of dispute and you will get villagers literally drilling into these oil pipelines with drills and buckets to steal the oil. And of course someone's doing it and they're smoking or there's some sort of ignition source and the whole thing erupts and, the village is burnt and it's a horrible, tragedy but it's just it's a funny, again, it goes back to the theory of what I was saying, the juxtaposition of that very valuable resource with a very, with a civilization, with a community, probably better way of putting it, who has never had access to that amount of money.So you're literally pumping these, this thing through their village that is worth more money than they'll ever see in their lifetime. And obviously the temptation to try to take some of that. is there, almost like understandably, but then again it quite often results in a lot of death and destruction.So that's yeah, it's just it's part of the whole industry in a lot of ways. And other industries, when you look at things like lithium mining and diamonds and stuff, you have a very high value resource That has been, by pure chance, located in a very poor part of the world and it results in these tragedies sometimes.Leafbox: I was going to ask you about the processing of oil. So when export the raw crude. Mostly the oils and process somewhere else. You were, you're taking the oil from Nigeria. Like Venezuela, they have to ship it all to Houston or whatnot to get turned into different solvents and gasoline. And, Andrew: This is probably when I'll need some fact checking, but my recollection of the time in Nigeria was that they weren't processing the oil on shore.I stand corrected if that's wrong, but my understanding was that they weren't, or at least there wasn't very many refineries, so it was basically all, like you said, extracted and then sent abroad. To be refined. That's certainly the situation in in Papua New Guinea. A lot of it is turned an LPG there and then shipped abroad.I guess I would guess, I would assume that would be the situation in a lot of West African countries for a lot of reasons, you have an established. Supply chain, you have established skill set in other places, then it comes down to cost and then you have the security of, you can imagine the enormous amount of investment you would need in a refinery.And would you rather do that in a place that's had a history of civil war, or would you take the cost to ship it abroad and do it somewhere else, Leafbox: no, it's understandable. I think that's important for listeners to understand that. The refinery in Louisiana or whatnot, or, it's so massive, it's billions of dollars and it's such a dangerous place to work also. Right. Those are just like literally atomic bomb sized potential energy. Andrew: The one thing that, there's always been, say in Scotland, there's been a little bit of resentment towards, Aberdeen and they're all like rich up there from other places in Scotland, but I think that there is, people are aware of Deepwater Horizon and Piper Alpha, et cetera, but I do think that there has been an underappreciation of the, just the Crazy risks that are involved when you're working offshore and handling hydrocarbons.Like I said, you take a helicopter to work with all the risks that I had in, in tails, and then you spend a month or so working on top of something that is effectively, a bomb if if things aren't handled properly. And you're, how far away are you from like emergency services?There are supply vessels and stuff, but. It's very much an environment where you have to just be very careful and very aware of dangers, which I think the industry now has got very good at. But yeah, the wages are high, but they're high for a reason. It's not it's not an easy, it's not an easy job in terms of that.And like I alluded to before, in terms of family stability, working away and coming back is not really conducive quite often to, to a healthy home life.Leafbox: Going back to Angola for a second I read an account of the Chinese are very heavily in Luanda and Angola, and they had the terrible civil war.But one of the things that really stood out to me is that all the Chinese use Chinese labor. So their oil boats are all Chinese workers and they often use ex felons, which I thought was interesting. But there's, I guess they, all these ex felons in Angola, I don't know if you saw this, I wanted to confirm it, but there's a lot of half Chinese, half Angolan children now because all the Chinese roughnecks.They're all men. So there's a booming Angolan prostitution and it just was so wild. Angola think Luanda is the most expensive city in the world. But then the most violent too, so yeah, just what's your general impressionAndrew: I I've been in Luanda in total, probably just a couple of days.Most of my time was spent in a, so Chevron Texco have this place called Cabinda. Which is actually, technically speaking, if you look at the map, it's not actually connected to Angola, you've got Angola, then you've got a little gap, and then you've got Cabinda, which is the little gap is part of the DRC, I think but Cabinda is where all the onshore processing of the oil is.It's part of Angola and it's like a prisoner of war camp and you go up there and you can't leave pretty much until you've finished your work. But my impression of Lulanda wasn't great at all. I remember driving into it and there's these massive shanty towns on the edge of the city with just like literal rubbish tipped down the side of these hills.And then you get into the city and it's just a. massive continual traffic jam with Porsche Cayennes and Range Rovers and G Wagons. And it just felt in the way that I was describing Lagos and even Port Harcourt, which has a pretty bad reputation as a sort of, chaotic, but fun sort of chaos.I felt and this is just my personal impression, I felt Lwanda was chaos, but dangerous chaos. Not you wouldn't stay in a staff house there and you wouldn't go out for a drink anyway. You wouldn't even really go out for lunch much. You just stayed in. It looked to me like as if you'd taken a European city, which I guess it, that's how it was built.And then you just start maintaining it from like 1960s onwards, but then you'd add it in a civil war and I appreciate the civil war was like a proxy civil war and then just didn't repair any infrastructure and just peppered the whole place with like bullet holes.It wasn't, it was not particularly, it's not a place that I would recommend to be quite honest with you. In terms of the Middle East, the comparison with the Middle East I've not really worked that much in the Middle East, to be quite honest with you. I guess my closest is the Caspian, which is more Central Asia, but that was way more structured.Yes, there's massive amounts of corruption, massive amounts of poverty. But yeah, absolutely more structured and less chaotic in that sense. Leafbox: Andrew, what's the relationship in Nigeria, there's famous activists who, like the Shell, they polluted so heavily, but then I guess the military tribunals would erase or disappear people.Maybe this is before you worked there, but what, as, what was the relationship of the company men with the government? Was there open kind of corruption or? What was your general vibe of is the manager's job and kind of getting these contracts. Talk to me about that. Like Deanna, how did the, you know, Exxon versus Armco or whatever it is, whoever's ever getting these contracts, there's obviously backdoor dealings.Andrew: Yeah, in terms of, actual drilling licenses I was never near or even remotely near the people that will be making those sort of decisions. And I'm certainly not going to allege corruption at that level. And I don't have any evidence, but what I would say, and again, all of this is just my personal opinion.It's, I'm not disparaging any one particular place in general, but the level of corruption. that I would see was so endemic that I just came to feel it was cultural which again, it's not really don't want to make that sound like it's a slight, to me it was an understanding of I really feel, and just briefly going back to the whole Bob Geldof Live Aid thing, I really feel like in the West we've made a mistake over the years in trying to impose our way of looking at the world on other cultures.And what I would see in most West African countries was it was just an accepted way Of living, accepted way of dealing. So you would go to the airport. We used to have these boxes that would have electronic equipment in them. And we had to hand carry them cause they were quite fragile.And then you would go to the check in desk and they would be like okay, well we have to get some stairs to lift this into the plane. So that's an extra 50. I'm not sure you actually own this equipment. It's got another company written on it. You give me a hundred dollars.Sometimes it's not quite said, you'll just get so much hassle and you'd see other, you'd see some people there that would freak out in case thinking that they were gonna, arrested or something. They just open their wallet and hand over loads of money. The, but it's not it's not like some under the table nefarious plot it's just like the checking guy is getting paid next to nothing He sees someone who's obviously got all my money and he has How can I get that money off him and it's at every single level my I mean I suppose I would say I was wise to it, but even I would make naive mistakes.I remember on a leaving day when I left Nigeria I had this driver who I'd still consider a friend. I messaged him on Facebook sometimes, and he was a really nice young guy who would go out of his, literally out of his way to help me. And I made the silly mistake of handing in my bank card on my like, leaving due.I'd had a little bit to drink and I just thought, surely it'll be fine. And of course I get back to the UK, I check my statement and there's a couple of hundred dollars missing or a hundred pounds missing. At the time I was like, that must be a bank error, surely not. But I look back in it now and I just think, again, this isn't, this honestly isn't even a criticism, it's just the culture is to try and hustle.And if you, if it doesn't work, well, I tried. It's just, it's endemic in that sense. I don't doubt that there most likely have been over the years some very shady practices on the behalf of Western oil companies and Western governments. You only have to look at the history of, BP and the UK government and Americans in Iran and coups to get oil and all these sorts of things.But I'm just talking about like the corruption that I've seen, it seemed, Cultural in that sense. It's just everywhere. The one thing that I would say is that companies I've worked for within the contracts is very heavy anti corruption. So the FCPA, if I'm remembering that right, in the US. The anti corruption laws are very strong to the point where if a company official from a country, say like Scotland, is a manager and he signs off on a bribery expense, he can actually, if I'm right in recalling this, he can end up going to jail himself for that.So a hundred percent, I'm sure it's happening by at the same time legally, there are some very strict laws against it. Leafbox: When they just outsource to local sub providers, that's what I would imagine they do to get around that. Andrew: I think it's a case of well, just don't tell me sort of thing.Leafbox: Yeah. Andrew: I'm pretty sure that, that's why. Well, Leafbox: I think people don't understand if you haven't been to these countries, it's just it's just not Norway. It's not. Yeah. It's a very different. Yeah. Andrew: And. I, sorry to interrupt you, but I've done quite a bit of work in Norway and I have found that some countries and some cultures seem to have a difficulty accepting that the world isn't the way that they are.And I think that that, not to, not to boast or to my trumpet here, but I think that one thing that I've learned over the years is that some places they just are the way they are. And it's, of course you don't want to encourage. Corruption, you don't want to encourage mistreatment, but I don't believe it's your right.Like I'm like, I live in Japan now and some things, a lot of things about Japan I absolutely love, but there are also some things about Japan that just don't seem right to me. But it's not my place to come in and say, right, you're doing this wrong. You should be doing this the other way. It just isn't, it's not my country.And I felt the same way in Africa. There's loads of things about Nigeria that I was like, this is absolute madness. But it's their madness, it's not my madness, and I'm a guest in their country. Leafbox: What do you think the difference, in your email to me, you wrote about the colonial being British, how's that relationship been for you?You've, non interventionist now, but you wrote about, your forefathers or previous generations having quote, good intentions. Maybe tell me about that. Andrew: I think that I know that there's a lot in the UK as with America now that's quite, there's a lot of attempt to be revisionist within history and question history, which I'm a big fan of people questioning history.I just think once again, that we are tending to look at things from a very Western point of view without taking into account like global history. I know believe, through my experience of traveling, I now think, well, exactly like what I just said, I don't think it's our place to change countries to mold them in our ways, but I do have a more charitable view of a lot of our maybe not every one of them, certainly not every country's colonial adventures, but I do think that some of them were more motivated by, as I said, a Christian desire to end certain barbaric practices.If you look at, the I forget what the practice is called, but the practice of people burning their their wives on the husband's funeral pyre in India and the whole slavery, which, yes, Britain was a part of but it's quite clear that, the British Navy was very important, effective in, in, in ending the global slave trade.So I'm very proud of where I come from and I'm proud of my ancestors. I don't deny that They were put that they, there weren't some, as I said, some negative aspects and atrocities, but I just think that again, when it comes to, and I think about this more because I have kids now.So I think about how I want them to feel about the country going forward. This is part of, traveling. You see so many countries where people are so proud of their country. Nigerians were some of the most proud people I think I've ever met, and it's the same in Japan. And I worry the direction our country's going, both the UK and the US, when we were raising a generation of children who are being taught to be embarrassed by where they come from.Leafbox: Going back to oil for a second, Andrew, the colonial legacy is impossible to digest in a short interview, but do you have, what's the general like Pemex or the Venezuelan oil companies or the Russian oil companies? What's your general impression of nationalized oil companies versus the private?Andrew: Yeah. I so I guess my biggest experience is in Azerbaijan, there's a company called Soka which is the national oil company. And of course all these national oil companies, a lot of them have shares in international like private oil companies.So it's not always a clear divide of either one or the other, but I guess I, as someone who really. believes in capitalism. I think that in terms of efficiency and certainly in terms of safety, in terms of environmental compliance, I think that the private oil companies are much more answerable to activism, to just a sense of corporate responsibility than private oil companies.And if you're in somewhere like Russia, like you say, Venezuela and the national oil companies is polluting the water. Well, What are you going to do about compared to a private oil company who has, a much more, it has shareholders and I guess more of a global footprint. But I also come back to the point, as I was saying about localization that these resources are the country's resources and I think it's quite right that companies pay.I wouldn't say prohibitive amounts of tax, but I think it's quite right that companies pay a lot of money in tax when they extract the hydrocarbons, and they have local content. I guess the ideal for me is private, but with a level of public ownership. But not actually running the operations because I think as soon as you take away, as soon as you take away that meritocracy, you end up with health and safety risks, you end up with just waste, and when it comes to something like with the large amounts of money involved That just ends up taking money away from the actual people.I don't think it's, I don't think it's generally a great idea, but I think a sort of public, a bit like you see a lot here in Japan actually, a public private mix, if done properly, is probably the way to go for a lot of utilities. Leafbox: Great. So Andrew, maybe it's time to jump to the oil and energy diverse mix.Tell me about what brings you to Japan. First, you work on nuclear and now wind. Andrew: Yeah. For me, I can't claim any sort of high minded high minded drive to change from one industry to the other. It was purely, I had a mortgage and a new baby and I desperately needed a job. So that was how I made that jump.The one thing I have experienced over the years, it's certainly the place I've worked. It's very, Unless you're in a region that has like a national oil company, it's even then I guess depends who you are. It's very meritocratic, but it's quite cutthroat. So oil companies, service companies, as soon as oil price drops, it's very cyclical.People just get made redundant. People, I saw people at Halliburton had been there for literally 40, 50 years being made redundant just because the share price dropped a few points. I've been made redundant twice myself. And yeah, it's just horrible. And there's nothing you can do about it because it's an economic decision.It's nothing to do with your performance. And that happens to, it's probably very few people on the street that hasn't happened to It's the downside of the high salary really. So coming into wind it was really an opportunity to, as I say, we wanted to live abroad again for a little while.And opportunities to live in Japan don't come by very often. And it's interesting. It's interesting. It's very different. It's interesting from an engineering point of view. It's a lot of heavy lifts. And Japan, I think Japan has a good attitude towards offshore wind, because everything else, Japan has a long term vision.It has a vision of a percentage mix of nuclear fossil fuels, renewables, whereas I feel like I'm fairly against it in my home country, in the UK, because we don't have a long term plan. We've had four prime ministers in the last two years. One of them wanted to build eight nuclear power stations, the next one to start fracking.And then the one now wants to quadruple our offshore wind capacity in eight years, which is impossible. It's quite nonsensical. It's quite short term thinking. I'm not anti wind, I'm not pro oil, I'm not anti or pro any, anything. What I'm pro is a science based, long term, non subsidy, non corruption based market solution.Obviously you've got environmental aspect of climate change, et cetera, which needs to be taken into account. But I found, I find a lot of the attitude towards renewables and towards the energy mix quite histrionic and not really based on facts. Leafbox: Do you ever think about, geopolitics as an engineer in terms of, where these pressures are coming from.Europe particularly seems so against oil and hydrocarbons, but if you do any scientific research, you just, there's the capacity of hydrocarbons to produce energy is just unparalleled in terms of the input to output. And wind is just not a realistic option. Andrew: I think that, I think there's a general I would say it's a mistake, but I think it's done on purpose, but there's a general attitude that seems to be portrayed in the media that you can have one company or one industry is virtuous and everything they do is virtuous and there are no negative connotations or motivations behind what they're doing.And then the other is just all negative. So right now, it seems like oil is completely negative and then offshore wind is completely positive. You look at the motivations behind companies putting in offshore wind turbines or the service companies exactly the same as motivations behind all companies.Neither one is doing them. For anything other than to make money. And I think it's simplistic and a little bit silly to think that the boss of an oil company is some sort of J. R. Ewing, person that likes to run over puppies on the way home and the boss of an electricity company or a turbine installation company or whatever.is some sort of, sandal wearing saint that doesn't care about money. Everyone in pretty much, I would say any corporation, that statistic about men are CEOs, they're psychopaths. All they care about is money. And I think there are a lot of like there's a lot of talk about subsidies.You just touched on it, I think. And people talk about subsidies and oil when they're talking about subsidies and oil, what they're talking about is the The fact that when you drill an oil well, which can be anything between, I don't know, 30 and like upwards of 100 million, you basically get to claim that back off the tax.Now the tax in the UK is, it was about 75 percent on the oil that they extract and profit from the oil they extract. But if you have that say 100 million cost, how many companies can drill three or four wells at 100 That you're going to get anything out of that. Very few companies can afford to take that risk.I don't think it's a bit rich to call that a subsidy when you've got the whole CFD process for offshore wind, which effectively guarantees the strike price of electricity. So you imagine if you had that for oil, you would have, You would have countries buying oil off the oil companies when the price dropped, and they don't have that, they don't have that, that, that mechanism, but you simply wouldn't get offshore winds without a decent strike price, which you've seen recently in the auctions when no one bid on the licenses in the UK, and I think it was the US as well.Leafbox: So in essence you prefer just like a free market, totally. Not a totally free market, but in the sense that a clear transparent market. So if that really incentivized the right incentives, like you're saying in Japan, they have that mix of nuclear and hydrocarbon and wind and solar. And in Japan, I always feel like they're just burning trash.That's their real power generation. Andrew: It's funny that it's such a funny place in so many ways, but you've got this island, which has, a lot of geothermal resources. But in terms of mineral resources, it's not in a great position yet. It manages to be so incredibly self sufficient in terms of industry, in terms of fuel price.Like they, they said to me when I arrived here, Oh God, it's so expensive electricity. It's like about 60 to, to a month for the electricity in your house. And it's a four bed house with five air cons on 24 seven. I'm like, geez, you just see the price UK. You'd be like, 10 times almost. So they managed to make it work, but like everything else here, like I said, it's a long term, long thought process.And Obviously, I guess we haven't really talked about it, and I'm not, I don't feel qualified even to talk about it at all, to be honest with you, but in terms of climate change, I am very much meritocratic and capitalist in that sense that I think the market will identify the most efficient.way of providing energy, but I completely accept that there needs to be a level of environmental regulation because going back to what I said, CEOs, I think of any company would do anything if it made them money. And I've seen, I saw this in Azerbaijan. You go out, you're back, he's an absolutely beautiful city, but if you look back through its history of being part of the Soviet Union, the level of just pollution was unreal and it still suffers from a lot of that, especially out with the main city. So I 100 percent agree with environmental regulations. I think that, I think there's a lot of politics behind climate change. I'm quite skeptical of international NGO organizations, especially with the last few years that we've had.But I think that the yeah, I think that Japan's got it right. I think we need a mix and we need to not. Pretend like we are doing in the UK at the moment that for instance, the electricity price in the UK is doubled since 2019. And it hasn't here in Japan, and there, there tends to be a thought of, well, we just need to do all this because climate change is going to happen.It doesn't matter that, that people are suffering now, I don't think, I think people tend to. tend to maybe forget the, it's like the, the just stop oil extinction rebellion types. It's the world we have is impossible to have without oil. Sure. You can reduce it. It's going to run out eventually one day anyway.So reducing it is not a bad thing, but to pretend that you can just press stop and then you can put in a wind

Andrew Thomson, President and CEO of Palamina (TSX.V:PA & OTCQB:PLMNF) joins me to discuss the Company's new drilling program and strategic endeavors in Peru. The focus of this conversation is Palamina's 3,000 meter drill program at the Sol del Oro zone in the Usicayos Project, which commenced on August 13th.    Andrew provides a comprehensive overview of the drill targets, the geological features observed so far, and the reasons for selecting the Sol del Oro zone. He also shares updates on the completion of the first drill hole,which was extended and initial details on the second hole.   Andrew also covers the Company's future drilling plans, including moving the drill to the Sol de Oro South and North zones. I then ask about the broader strategic landscape for Palamina, including Windshear Gold's upcoming drill program, and Palamina's approach to its other assets in Peru, including their copper-silver projects and the potential for future spin-offs.   Click here to visit the Palamina website to learn more about the Company. 

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Andrew Thomson, President and CEO of Palamina (TSX.V:PA & OTCQB:PLMNF) joins me to provide and update on the new project acquisition in Peru and exploration updates at the Usicayos Gold Project, in Peru, and Winshear Gold's exploration plans.    We start with the newly acquired Pluma Project from Aurania Resources' Peruvian subsidiary. This acquisition was an all-share transaction, building the Company's portfolio of high-grade silver-copper projects in the Santa Lucia district. We discuss various facets of the new project, focused mostly on the location contiguous to Hannan Metals Limited's San Martin Copper Silver Project.    We then move to the Usicayos Project, highlighting recent high-grade sample results and upcoming drilling. Additionally, we look over at Winshear Gold, in which Palamina holds a significant stake, elaborating on its 1,600-meter drill program starting in the near term.    If you have any follow up questions for Andrew please email me at Fleck@kereport.com.   Click here to visit the Palamina website.

In a special episode Jonathan Sutherland examines Inverness Caledonian Thistle's controversial decision to relocate their training base to Fife. He finds out how they got to this point, what the thinking behind the move is and hears from fans about why it's provoked such a passionate reaction. Guests are BBC reporter Andrew Thomson, fan Lynne MacDonald, Jennifer Aitchison (chair of the ICT supporters Trust) and club legend Barry Wilson.

Andrew Thomson. President and CEO of Palamina (TSX.V:PA) joins me to discuss the drill plans and roadmap to drilling the Usicayos Project, in Peru.   The Company is cashed up, after receiving over $3.6million from Winshear Gold. Andrew explains the plans to drill 3,000-5,000 meters at the project. I ask about the type of deposit the Company is looking for and recap some of the recent action in the area out of Barrick Gold.   The Company also recently appointed a new V.P. Exploration, Alvaro Fernandez-Baca and new advisors, Hall Stewart and Jerry Blackwell.    Click here to visit the Palamina website for more information on the Company and the Usicayos Project.

In this episode, we're joined by Middlebury men's tennis student-athlete Robby Ward, alongside the team's head coach and a former member of the squad, Andrew Thomson. The two talk about the best dining halls on campus, the one time a teammate got lost on a hike, why they have loved their Division III experiences and more. This podcast is part of Division III's year-long celebration of it's 50th anniversary. For more information, visit on.ncaa.com/diii50. Instagram: www.instagram.com/ncaadiii Twitter: www.twitter.com/ncaadiii TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@ncaa?lang=en Facebook: www.facebook.com/ncaadiii

Andrew Thomson, President and CEO of Palamina (or the "Company") (TSX.V:PA - OTCQB:PLMNF) joins me to outline the work plans for 2024 now that the Company received a non-dilutive C$3.625 million payment from Winshear Gold (TSX.V:WINS) as a return of capital to shareholders. Palamina holds 15.4% equity interest in Winshear Gold, as well as a 2% Net Smelter Royalty ("NSR") on all Winshear projects.   Andrew outline the initial drill plans for each company this year including the main target areas to be drilled. We also discuss the recant action in Peru with major miners getting more active on the ground.   Please email me with any follow up questions for Andrew. My email address is Fleck@kereport.com.   Click here to visit the Palamina website.

Andrew Thomson, President and CEO of Palamina (TSX.V:PA) joins me to discuss the $3.35million non-dilutive net payment the Company will receive from Winshear Gold (TSX.V:WINS). This payment is a return of capital to shareholders after Winshear received the arbitration settlement with the Tanzania government.   I have Andrew outline the exploration plans at the Company's Usicayos Project, once the funds are received. He also details what Winshear is planning to do with its share of the remaining funds.   Please email me with any follow up questions for Andrew. My email address is Fleck@kereport.com.   Click here to visit the Palamina website to learn more about the Company and Usicayos Project.

Andrew Thomson runs Spray Mow Services in Bussleton WA. His business does high quality work across the region and is someone a lot of small lawn and garden businesses in Australia could learn from.This is the story of how he went from solo lawn contractor to running 5-10 employees doing high quality commercial work. 

While Wendy and Beth enjoy a much needed break, please enjoy this episode from the Evergreen show Conning the Con. Emma as she takes us back to the fateful day when she swiped right on the profile of Andrew Thomson. He's charming, charismatic, successful and empathetic, everything you look for in a life partner, right? He seemed like the perfect date but by date four the cracks were starting to appear. And they would be the first of many... Dr Sophie Muir, Clinical Psychologist joins us, shining a retrospective light on Emma's story and highlighting the red flags along the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After a complete takedown of the crime syndicate ILB, the agents are wrapping up their paperwork just as a new case rocks the Citadel. Will the agents discover the threat? Has Ha'lari recovered enough to work? Will Teary reminisce about the good old days on Tuchanka? Find out... on the Blue Shift! Link to our Discord server: https://discord.gg/XsPhvTmFxK Link to our Patreon: patreon.com/masseffectblueshift Special thanks to Andrew Thomson (pipemanstudios.com) Elizabeth Cole (twitch.tv/lvcc13), and freesound.org for music and special effects! This episode is dedicated to Princess Zelda Marie, the sweetest, grouchiest old lady cat you could ever meet.

The Blue Shift gear up and initiate their planned raid. But does their first combat mission go according to plan? Does anyone's career end here? And how does Garrus Vakarian fit into all this? Found out... on the Blue Shift! Massive thanks to Andrew Thomson of Pipeman Studios (https://www.pipemanstudios.com/), Elizabeth Cole (twitch.tv/lvcc13) and freesound.org for guidance, music, and all the special effects! Check out our Patreon: patreon.com/masseffectblueshift Join our Discord Server: https://discord.gg/XsPhvTmFxK Join the Robots Radio Discord Server: https://discord.gg/xfCZfR3Xc6

This week, Carrie is in conversation with her husband, Russell Marbut. Russell is the new co-owner of the jiu jitsu gym Ohm Jiu Jitsu, and today, the couple talks about how business ownership impacts family and friends of the entrepreneur. Russell and Carrie use real examples to show how opening a business can be tough on relationships. Carrie also says a bittersweet goodbye (for now). Find full show notes at localistpodcast.com.   Sign up for our mailing list to get the Localist Guide to Coffee Shops in Birmingham.   Ohm Jiu Jitsu: Find out more (and get a free class) at ohmjiujitsu.com Ohm Jiu Jitsu on Instagram: @ohmjiujitsu   Goal Setting Episodes: New Year Goals that Actually WorkHow Do I Actually Set a SMART Goal?Feeling Like You've Already Failed Is NormalLearn to Focus and Deal with DisruptionsThe Essential Part of Goal Setting that Most People SkipWhat to Do When Your Year Already Feels Off-Track Paramount Post Office Pies Slim's 12 Week Year Church Street Coffee & Books Episode A. Studio and Andrew Thomson (logo designer for Ohm) Andrew Thomson's episode of the Localist

This week, Carrie interviews brand new business owners DJ Wright and Russell Marbut, founders of the new Birmingham gym Ohm Jiu Jitsu. They talk about whether or not the market for jiu jitsu is saturated, how the partners found their space and navigated the world of new business ownership, and we even touch a bit on how marriage impacts business (Russell is Carrie's husband!). Find full show notes at localistpodcast.com.   Sign up for our mailing list to get the Localist Guide to Coffee Shops in Birmingham.   Ohm Jiu Jitsu: Find out more (and get a free class) at ohmjiujitsu.com Ohm Jiu Jitsu on Instagram: @ohmjiujitsu   Sanctum Tattoos and Comics on the Localist MMA UFC Seasick Records Mom's Basement Joe Rogan Jocko Studio and Andrew Thomson (logo designer for Ohm) Andrew Thomson's episode of the Localist Gym Desk

Andrew Thomson joins us for a chat about his dad Peter from the early days in Melbourne, to the influence of Von Nida. A playing career that encompassed 98 professional career wins around the world including 5 Open Championships - three of which were won in succession. Peter was also a dab hand at writing on golf, broadcasting and course desiging. We also take a look at a very special, final journey that Andrew made on Peter's behalf in July 2022. Many thanks to Andrew for his time, we hope you enjoy the episode. https://books.slatterymedia.com/ are the publisher of My Life in Golf which was referenced during the episode, the book includes a collection of some of Peter's most inciteful writing over the years. Link below to Peter Mitchell's biography of Peter Thomson: https://petermitchellmedia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Complete-Golfer-compressed.pdf Link below to Stephen Proctor's book - The Long Golden Afternoon, which Andrew mentioned as a recommendation: https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-long-golden-afternoon/ You can also download Andrew's recent article on his 2022 UK trip for the Golf Society of Australia's Newsletter by following the link to my google drive folder for episode 19 below: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uRoOgXKLfhEz-sqlWRNC1-MF7aNH--5n?usp=share_link Finally, I have a quick favour to ask - if you like what you hear on the podcast - you might consider recommending it to one of your friends or alternatively leaving a review through your preferred podcast app.... it really is appreciated! Many thanks for listening! Shane Special Guest: Andrew Thomson.

Emma Ferris loaned $300,000 to her boyfriend only to discover he was conning her. In this episode of Crimes NZ, Emma describes the battle for her life-savings and her future.

Season 3 of STOP THE KILLING is kicking off THIS Thursday so stay tuned but in the meantime you might like to listen to the podcast that sent Sarah on the podcasting path in the first place. Introducing CONNING THE CON It was a relationship that was going just the way Andrew Thomson planned… right up until the point, Emma discovered his real identity and that's when things start to derail... for the both of them. And with the stakes high, there can be only one victor in this confidence game. Time to turn the tables and con the conman. What you you do? WOULD YOU HIT RECORD....? Runner up in the International Women's Podcast Awards 2021 Compelling listening - we dare you not to binge it one go!  This is a CONmunity Podcast Production on the Killer Podcasts Network Check out more: CONNING THE CON KLOOGHLESS - THE LONG CON GUILTY GREENIE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Thomson, President and CEO of Palamina Corp (TSX.V:PA - OTCQB:PLMNF) joins me to recap news from the month of September, including high-grade sample results from the Usicayos Gold Project, assay results and land consolidation at the Galena Silver Copper Project and an update on Windshear Gold.   We focus on the exploration and corporate strategy moving forward in Peru at both the Usicayos Project and Galena Project. On the Windshear front we discuss the ongoing arbitration case with the Tanzania government.   If you have any follow up questions for Andrew please email me at Fleck@kereport.com.   Click here to visit the Palamina website and read over the news releases we discussed from September.   Shad and I are attending the upcoming New Orleans Investment Conference on October 12-15. We love to see you there! It's a great way to meet company management and spend some time in New Orleans. Click the link below to register and please let us know if you will be there so we can meet up. Click here to find out more about the conference.

Welcome to the latest behind-the-scenes podcast from I3, which took place after two Legacy sessions, discussing the need for embryologists globally and the changing challenges and demands of the embryologists, the demographics of the people working in an IVF laboratory, and ways to retain, train and recruit embryologists into the workforce as more of the veteran embryologist retire. Speakers during the sessions included: Giles Palmer, Bill Venier, Andrew Thomson, and Dr. Gloria Calderon, Eva Schenkman, TJ Farnworth, Andrew Thomson, Dr. Alison Campbell, Dr. Tony Anderson: The second part of the webinar which is also discussed in an after party here - continues on with this topic and Giles Palmer is joined by Keshav Malhotra, Dr. Tony Anderson and Eva Schenkman, Elina Roumian, and Dani Smale, Debbie Venier and Dr. Joe Conaghan. What was discussed: Talking about filling spaces Why does someone leave suddenly? If that happens you need to figure out why as any good team member will give notice eg. 1 year Team having an exit strategy - post-pandemic How busy are the training centres - currently booked out until June 2023How the training has been reinvented with 2-3 month courses and how beneficial they are, delivering programmes in a condensed fashion enabling junior trainees to get more experience People who come off the courses are hot commodities - end up being part of a bidding war as candidates have several offersSalaries that are 30/40/50% than 12 months ago People aren't let go - until they are comfortable with procedures such as ICSI which is different from older courses where you only got a few hours of hands-on experience Helping to teach in a custom way to a network's protocols - signing NDA's. There is a reluctance from clinics to not have the teacher's methods taught - instead, the clinic needs to trust Consultant trainers- go into clinics to train someone who can't travelSESSION 2: IVF Olympics - challenges for senior embryologists that trainees do but with opposite hand People approaching embryologists to be mentors on Linked InEncouraging students to use social media such as Linked In to help them find work and build connections Mentors and building your network which is so important as at some point in your career you will come across a problem where you need to call someone outside your network to solve itGet involved with associations and communities To talk to new people when you go to meetings, find people in the same boat as you to support youAre Embryologists introverted people?Importance of putting yourself out of your comfort zone to talk to other people. Legacy Session 1 Legacy Session 2 Make sure you keep an eye on the upcoming events at IVFMeeting.com for the follow-up to this conversationFollow us on our socials: TwitterFacebook

Andrew Thomson has built a quality business where employees and teams deliver to the local shire and commercial sector. In West Australia that means a lot of cylinder mowing with large area grounds mowers and even the Gianni Ferrari.

I spoke with Andrew Thomson about golf at remote courses in Japan, playing links golf courses with old golf clubs, hickory golf, and target golf created by mowing patterns. Read more about these courses at: https://www.asianturfgrass.com/post/botanizing-nippon-treasure-links/  Andrew's book "Bridge to the Gods: Tales from Kyushu" is available from Ryan Publishing (http://www.ryanpub.com.au/bridgetothegods.htm) and from all fine booksellers.  Follow Andrew on Twitter at https://twitter.com/newsfromkyushu  Watch this episode at https://youtu.be/QyWJfg-1hPU Read more about all kinds of turfgrass topics at https://www.asianturfgrass.com/  See the ATC newsletters at https://subscribepage.com/atc_newsletters  Get turfgrass information resources at https://www.paceturf.org/  Listen to the ATC Office Hours podcast at https://atc-office-hours.transistor.fm/

Andrew Thomson, President and CEO of Palamina Corp (TSX.V:PA – OTCQB:PLMNF) joins me to update us on the current drilling at the Company’s flagship Usicayos...

Welcome back to the Candlelit Tales Podcast. This is the story of what happened to Osgar son of Oisín grandson of Fionn MacCumhaill when he woke up after he died… This story is told by Aron Music is by Oisín Ryan and Alan Homan and it is produced by Oisín Ryan and Alan Homan This podcast is proudly sponsored by the people who donate to us each month via https://www.patreon.com/candlelittales and anyone who sends us a once-off donation through the Paypal button on our website http://candlelittales.ie/ #candlelittales #candlelittalespodcast #keepherlit #keephercandlelit #storytelling #livemusic #mythology #irishmythology #mythicalireland #patreon #thankyou #subscribe #youtube #spotify #amazon https://open.spotify.com/show/2102WuUUe9Jl6cGXNwQEKf https://soundcloud.com/candlelittales https://twitter.com/candlelit_tales?lang=en https://www.facebook.com/candlelittales https://www.instagram.com/candlelittales https://vimeo.com/user52850249 https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/00d5c29b-ee1a-4078-aacf-62e1a94522dc/candlelit-tales-irish-mythology-podcast A very special thanks to our patrons: Em Atropa, Emmit, Elias Batchelder, Cathal McGovern, Envihon, Margaret Anderson Kelliher, Brianna Murphy, Anna Fitzgerald, Blake, Jackie Colpitts, Jan Plewa, Pat Fallon, Emma Daniels, Riah Creighton, freya carol soth, AR, Melissa Fritz, Julie Brett, keven siegert, Tyler, Alex Roberson, Eamonn McCrory, E Williams, Melissa MacDonald, Annie Dennison, Jessica Lehrsmith, Mandy McKerl, the all seeing guy, Dinne Mamisch, Natalie Hogan, Jacob Lang, Avery Parducci, Laura Egan, Chelsea Givens, Kirk Freeman, Ciara Joyce, Noah Doucet, Bill Langdon, Paul McDonald, Jennifer Curry, Izzy, Sarah Courtney, Murphy, Meirbhin O Conaill, Kirstie, Jen Neid, Maya, Richard Harvey, Jason Bell, Rosemary, Janique, Brenna myers, Jeremy Gilbert, Susanna Pilny, Maria Gehl, Eilidh Maeve Milliken, Karen Dylan Shevlin, Sally Curran, Ellie Cawte, Seamus Fegan, Maria O'Keeffe, Alana Rush, x, Thomas Cotter, Kyle Mathews, Liz Hinton, Jitka Svobodova, Claire McCafferty, Cú Roí Mac Dáiri, Desiree Lamb, Bess Nicolds, Gigi Cobbe, Marc Rhodes-Taylor, Alexandra French, Maralena Murphy, haleh roshan, Aoife Duffy, Peter Ciampa, Collin Abram, Bean Blackett, Keziah Gibbons, Bridget Ryan, Robert Gallagher, Emer, M, Emily Phelps, Alexandra, James Basquill, Ciara Kenny, Colleen Eldridge, Anne Davis, Kerry Reidy, Kerry-Leigh McCartney, Kelly McDonald, Patrick Demon, Niki Meadhra, Elizabeth Milliken, S.R. Harrell, Rebecca guyett, Linz, Megan Moncrief, Louise Mckenna O'hanlon, Matthew Robson, Bethany Andrews, Richard Boyd, Ana Herrero, L B, Grainne O Brien, Lorien Ennis, Fiona Nic Giolla Cheara, Antoinette Sullivan, Jorgia, Clare, Chiara De Santi, Andrew Thomson, Darren Ó Conbhuí Ward, Jay Mevorach, Liam Henrie, Lucy Jones, Ann Freeman, Elizabeth Finder, Ryan O'Connor, Tara Clarke, Deirdre Quinn, Niamh, Kaelee Dean, Conall Bolger, Grant, Louise Delz, Claire Nolan, Sweeney in the Trees, Claire Bonnie, Conni Dawson, Ana Rakovac, kiva durkan, Anne Hayes, Russell Swanagon, April Last, Emmet, Selina Mayer

Andrew Thomson & Mike Basak join us to blow your minds about the amazing music of Mass Effect. Andrew Thomson, aka Pipeman, an internationally recognized composer and percussionist, and Mike Basak, an orchestra musician with over a decade of experience and the orchestra manager for one of the world's top conservatories, explain the orchestral and movie influences behind the music. Subscribe so you don't miss any Mass Effect Lorecast Podcast episodes, lore, and other Mass Effect content from Robots Radio! Support us on Patreon! https://patreon.com/masseffectlorecast Want to support the show for no extra cost? Use the link to sign up for Game Pass now! Click: http://bit.ly/XBGPass Join us LIVE Sunday 10:30pm EST / 7:30pm PST: https://twitch.tv/robotsradio Discord: https://discord.gg/JXKfVhM Twitter: twitter.com/masseffectcast Email: masseffectlorecast@gmail.com Music: Screen Saver by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/5715-screen-saver License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license ROBOTSRADIO.net Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By March 2019, Emma and the man she knows as Andrew Thomson have been dating for almost six months, their relationship appears to be going from strength to strength. Andrew had put in months and months of graft, it was now time for him to double down on his lies and do what he does best, exploit, rinse ..... and repeat.   In the last Episode Emma meets a man called Andrew Thomson on tinder He is a charming, outgoing, entrepreneur from Tasmania, Australia The relationship moves from strength to strength over the first few dates, he seems too good to be true By date four Andrew lets Emma into what she thinks is his deepest, darkest secret, his false imprisonment in a Melbourne jail Emma is faced with a decision..... but everyone deserves a second chance, right?   Useful links   Join Emma @thebreatheffect on Facebook and Instagram To learn the tools that Emma used to help both survive and thrive through trauma join Emma on one of her amazing online courses. Choose to reset your stress response and rewire your brain over 30 days. The Breath Effect - thebreatheffect.com Dr Sophie Muir - drsophiemuir.com     If you have your own true crime story to share please contact us. email: conningthecon@yahoo.com Facebook: conningtheconpodcast Instagram: conningthecon Twitter: conningthecon1     If you believe you have been targeted by a Fraudster then please reach out for help. Many places can help, below are a few to get you pointed in the right direction.    UK: Action Fraud NZ: NZ Government - Scams NZ: Netsafe Australia: Scamwatch US: USA Government - Scams     If this topic has got you curious you may like: The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Thomson was the former MLA for Regina South from 1995 to 2007 in the province of Saskatchewan. Thomson who had a long career in many cabinet portfolios including Minister of Finance, Learning, Corrections and Public Safety, Energy and Mines, and Minister Responsible for Information Technology, SaskEnergy, and SaskPower. Serving under the Premiership of Roy Romanow, and Lorne Calvert, Thomson was part of a government that battled the federal government over equalization payments, introduces a cap on prescription drug costs for seniors, and posted a $2-billion surplus. After leaving office in 2007, Thomson made a run for federal politics in Ontario in 2015 under the Federal NDP and Thomas Mulcair. *************************************************** Follow the Cross Border Interview Podcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crossborderpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrossBorderPod Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/CrossBorderInterviewPodcast Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI2i25ZVKTO84oUsLyO4jig Website: https://www.crossborderinterviews.ca/ Back the Show: https://www.patreon.com/CrossBoderInterviewPodcast Cross Border Interviews with Chris Brown was Produced and Edited by Miranda, Brown & Associates Inc. © 2022

We talk with Andrew about Taylor Swift, Seinfeld, the perception of art, producing genuine art, and a lot of other things.Support the show

Andrew has been playing a game of chess with Emma for six months. However, Emma's discovery of his real identity means the tables are about to turn on Andrew, just when he was almost at checkmate. In the last EpisodeEmma's friends, Sarsha and Jo, do some digging and find the ODT article (link below)Meanwhile, Emma is oblivious to their discovery and transfers $250,000 directly to Andrews account to investEmma is the last to discover Andrew Thomson is actually convicted Fraudster Andrew Tonks Unravelling the truth from the lies she discovers Andrew Tonks works at a freighting company in dispatch!Otago Daily Times Article https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/fraudster-jailed-after-theft-pay-reparationUseful linksJoin Emma @thebreatheffect on Facebook and Instagram To learn the tools that Emma used to help both survive and thrive through trauma join Emma on one of her amazing online courses. Choose to reset your stress response and rewire your brain over 30 days.The Breath Effect - thebreatheffect.comDr Sophie Muir - drsophiemuir.comIf you have your own true crime story to share please contact us.email: conningthecon@yahoo.comFacebook: conningtheconpodcastInstagram: conningtheconTwitter: conningthecon1If you believe you have been targeted by a Fraudster then please reach out for help. Many places can help, below are a few to get you pointed in the right direction. UK: Action FraudNZ: NZ Government - ScamsNZ: NetsafeAustralia: ScamwatchUS: USA Government - ScamsOur thanks to the talented:Aroha Min for the theme tune Jon Stubbs - Voiceover artistSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/conningthecon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

By March 2019, Emma and the man she knows as Andrew Thomson have been dating for almost six months, their relationship appears to be going from strength to strength. Andrew had put in months and months of graft, it was now time for him to double down on his lies and do what he does best, exploit, rinse ..... and repeat.In the last EpisodeEmma meets a man called Andrew Thomson on tinderHe is a charming, outgoing, entrepreneur from Tasmania, AustraliaThe relationship moves from strength to strength over the first few dates, he seems too good to be trueBy date four Andrew lets Emma into what she thinks is his deepest, darkest secret, his false imprisonment in a Melbourne jailEmma is faced with a decision..... but everyone deserves a second chance, right?Useful linksJoin Emma @thebreatheffect on Facebook and Instagram To learn the tools that Emma used to help both survive and thrive through trauma join Emma on one of her amazing online courses. Choose to reset your stress response and rewire your brain over 30 days.The Breath Effect - thebreatheffect.comDr Sophie Muir - drsophiemuir.comIf you have your own true crime story to share please contact us.email: conningthecon@yahoo.comFacebook: conningtheconpodcastInstagram: conningtheconTwitter: conningthecon1If you believe you have been targeted by a Fraudster then please reach out for help. Many places can help, below are a few to get you pointed in the right direction. UK: Action FraudNZ: NZ Government - ScamsNZ: NetsafeAustralia: ScamwatchUS: USA Government - ScamsIf this topic has got you curious you may like:The Psychopath Test by Jon RonsonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/conningthecon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Andrew Thomson welcomes MPs Chris Bittle (Liberal), Stephanie Kusie (Conservative), and Don Davies (NDP) after the government's announcement of cancelled flights to Mexico and the Caribbean, and mandatory hotel quarantines for returning travellers. We also have reaction from John McKenna, president and CEO of the Air Transport Association of Canada. Journalists Erica Ifill (Hill Times and the Bad + Bitchy podcast), Mia Rabson (The Canadian Press), and Laura Stone (The Globe and Mail) analyze the latest political developments around vaccines and Canada's COVID-19 response.

Episode one, The RomCON, takes us back to where it all began...One swipe to the right. One small, seemingly insignificant flick of the index finger.....Meet my sister, Emma as she takes us back to the fateful day when she swiped right on the profile of Andrew Thomson. He's charming, charismatic, successful and empathetic, everything you look for in a life partner, right?He seemed like the perfect date but by date four the cracks were starting to appear. And they would be the first of many...Dr Sophie Muir, Clinical Psychologist joins us, shining a retrospective light on Emma's story and highlighting the red flags along the wayUseful linksJoin Emma @thebreatheffect on Facebook and Instagram To learn the tools that Emma used to help both survive and thrive through trauma join Emma on one of her amazing online courses. Choose to reset your stress response and rewire your brain over 30 days.The Breath Effect - thebreatheffect.comDr Sophie Muir - drsophiemuir.comIf you have your own true crime story to share please contact us.email: conningthecon@yahoo.comFacebook: conningtheconpodcastInstagram: conningtheconTwitter: conningthecon1If you believe you have been targeted by a Fraudster then please reach out for help. Many places can help, below are a few to get you pointed in the right direction. UK: Action FraudNZ: NZ Government - ScamsNZ: NetsafeAustralia: ScamwatchUS: USA Government - ScamsIf this topic has got you curious and you want to know more about the art of the con then check out:The Confidence Game: The Psychology of the Con and Why We Fall for it Every Time by Maria Konnikova Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/conningthecon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode of Off The Record Podcast, Cat & Verity are joined by Andrew Thomson, founder of Glasgow based Community radio station, Clyde Built Radio. In this chat, he talks about his inspirations for setting it up, the challenges and highlights so far, and how it's helped the community in 2020. Website - www.otrscot.com Facebook - www.facebook.com/otrscot Twitter - www.twitter.com/otrscot Instagram - www.instagram.com/otrscot Off The Record is produced with support from Creative Scotland, Youth Music Initiative, PRS Foundation in association with Youth Music, The Academy of Music & Sound, EmuBands and the Association of Independent Music. Off The Record Podcast is produced by Alive & Amplified

タイムライン 00:10 Algoliaのドキュメント検索 が新しくなりました！ 04:21 BioIVTのDigital Transformationウェビナー 16:45 Algolia Advent Calendar 2020が盛り上がっています 関連リンク Algolia Documentation BioIVT adopts SAP Commerce Cloud to deliver an industry-leading B2B digital experience Zaelab SAP Commerce Cloud Contentful Algolia Advent Calendar 2020 Algolia の Instantsearch を NO Code で WordPress サイトに埋め込めるプラグイン「Search with Algolia Instantsearch Blocks」をリリースしました Algoliaのランキングについて Algoliaのランキングの見方とカスタマイズ 新記録を更新した2020年のBlack Fridayの経験から抑えておきたい5つのこと 関連ツイート One highlight of new @algolia docs search is Quick Filters.We suggest filters directly from the search box, as you type, and let you apply them or not. You can keep typing your query and replace or delete filters without ever leaving the search box.https://t.co/DCzHoAi6eX pic.twitter.com/GEUG2Xts1p— Sarah Dayan (@frontstuff_io) December 8, 2020 Are you trying to take a headless commerce approach in the new year? Join Evan Klein of @zaelab and Andrew Thomson of @BioIVT in a dialogue on integrating @SAP_CX & Algolia to build a rich B2B site experience. Register today: https://t.co/KDyWqaPvsH pic.twitter.com/x2tp3peF7b— Algolia (@algolia) December 3, 2020 #Algolia のAdvent Calendarを作りました！ #AlgoliaJP / 1件のコメント https://t.co/cDKT9bSqBW “Algolia Advent Calendar 2020 - Qiita” (1 user) https://t.co/iDFdSKIemu— Eiji Shinohara @ アルゴリア

It was a relationship that was going just the way Andrew Thomson planned...right up until the point, Emma discovered his real identity and that's when things start to derail... for the both of them. And with the stakes high, there can be only one victor in this confidence game. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/conningthecon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What kind of world do you want for your kids? Environmental degradation. Food and water shortage. Climate change and an unwanted cast of future doom and gloom tied to a fractured economic model? Our way of life is no longer sustainable!“Waste lots want more” is an outdated linear economic model. The way forward for humanity would be an adoption of a circular economy which is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping products and materials in use, and regenerating natural systems. Our champions for sustainability in Western Australia, Holonic Co-Founders Dylan Lamb and Andrew Thomson passionately explains to Alex and John from Ninja Software the compelling reasons for this economic shift that needs to happen. It also involves changing consumer habits.COVID have driven home the message to all of us the importance of building a collaborative community to accelerate real changes. From the perspective of community impact, the Holonic team referenced RideFair* as the epitome of keeping the flow of income within the community. *RideFair, an open-sourced rideshare cooperative is possibly the first circular tech in the world. From the point of sustainability and giving back to the community, RideFair is the future of rideshare.◎More Information◎▸Holonic, https://www.holonic.com.au/▸Tech Society 40 - The 6th Wave of Innovation, https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/40-the-6th-wave-of-innovation▸Tech Society 039 - Where the Exponential Are We? https://www.techsociety.fm/episodes/39-where-the-exponential-are-we▸Beardyman - Live in the Underbelly: The Full show, https://youtu.be/qciVXUHTN10▸RideFair, https://ridefair.io/Website: https://www.techsociety.fm/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/techsociety-fm/?viewAsMember=trueSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0STaLU0ATmS9dEyey4FwjviTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/tech-society/id1516405840Google: https://podcasts.google.com/search/tech%20societyTwitter: https://twitter.com/TechSocietyFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/techsociety.fm/

Check out the latest episode of the podcast, Life in the Fast Chain! This episode is all about telecommunications and the TM Forum Catalyst projects. It features Dr. MohammadHossein Zoualfaghari from BT Technology, Andrew Thomson from BearingPoint, and Michael Cooper from R3. This episode is informative and fun, so check it out if you’re interested in the space and want to hear how they are leveraging Corda + other blockchain platforms! As always, you can listen to the podcast on any podcast app or you can watch episodes online on r3.com (https://vimeo.com/463952128). Guests: Dr. MohammadHossein Zoualfaghari -Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoualfaghari/) Andrew Thomson - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-thomson-b3a2131/) Michael Cooper - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-cooper-a203685/) Host: Catherine Rutter - LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinemrutter/) - Twitter (https://twitter.com/breadandrutter)

Jonathan, Brad, John-Mark and Andrew Thomson discuss the ESPN documentary "The Last Dance".

Our first installment of "Meet A Member". This week Jonathan, Brad, and John-Mark sat down with Andrew Thomson to discuss his faith, his story, how he found Shades and much more!

Ghillie Basan shows us some inspiring ways in which we can use up our leftovers in a pot of soup and Fife food ambassador Christopher Trotter is on hand to give us some expert advice on how to create the perfect stock. Also, Christopher Mullin tells Andrew Thomson about his one man mission to revive the ancient tradition of making mead in Scotland.

2019.07.07 Andrew Thomson by Linneakyrkan

Episode 19 with Andrew Thomson

Business of Sport. We spoke to retired South African kick-boxer Andrew Thomson who is in a legal battle with basketball star Lebron James over the trademark “King James” which Thomson has registered and uses for his sportswear brand. Branding, marketing and Image rights expert Steward Masela also joined the conversation. Later we heard from The Sports Trust and about their incredible work they're doing, giving back to disadvantage communities, Carol Crowford was our guest.

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The latest edition of #phantasymix comes courtesy of Andrew Thomson, founder of Glasgow’s @huntleyspalmers. Recorded in anxious anticipation of what transpired to be a barnstorming gig at Georgia’s legendary Bassiani club, the mix finds Thomson on particularly diverse form, taking musical risks that pay off hugely at the epicentre of one of the world’s most exciting dance music scenes. Hear the mix and read our interview with Andy, who delves into a decade engineering one of the most unpredictable and individual institutions in UK music, as well as reflecting on the backstory of this mix > phantasy-sound.lnk.to/blog Follow Huntleys & Palmers: https://www.facebook.com/huntleyspalmers/ https://twitter.com/huntleyspalmers https://www.instagram.com/huntleyspalmers www.huntleyspalmers.com/

Mitte März fand in Salzburg eine internationale Konferenz mit dem Titel „Climate Change, Conflict, Health, and Education: Targeting Interdisciplinary Research to Meet the SDGs“ statt. Personen aus Politik, Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft und Entwicklungsorganisationen sind an drei Tagen im historischen Schloss Leopoldskron zusammengekommen, um sich den brennenden Herausforderungen im Kontext der nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele zu stellen.In diesem Beitrag sind Antworten auf folgende Frage zu hören: Was muss für eine lebenswerte Welt für alle getan werden? Die 17 Ziele der ambitionierten Agenda können – da sind sich die Interviewten einig – nur in gemeinsamer Anstrengung erreicht werden. Transdisziplinäre Wissenschaft und Forschung können helfen, globale Probleme holistisch zu lösen. Wie die SDGs zusammenwirken und warum sie nicht isoliert betrachtet werden können, wird anhand einiger Beispiele aus der Praxis erklärt. Welt im Ohr war auch bei der ADA – der Austrian Development Agency – in Wien zu Besuch und hat mit einem leitenden Vertreter über die Umsetzung der SDGs in Projekten mit österreichischer Beteiligung in den Bereichen Frieden, Bildung und Wasser gesprochen. Gestaltung und Moderation: Maiada Hadaia (Verantwortlich für den Sendungsinhalt)Sprecher/innen: Doris Bauer, Georg Florian WiderinIm Interview: Dr. Andrew Thomson, Leiter UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)Dr.in Katindi Sivi-Njonjo, Wissenschaftlerin und Politikanalystin Mag.a Claire Shine, Vize-Direktorin und Programmverantwortliche Salzburg Global Seminar Dr. Nelson Torto, Direktor Afrikanische Akademie der Wissenschaften (AAS) Erwin Künzi, MSc, Leiter Themen und Qualität, Austrian Development Agency (ADA)Die Interviews vor Ort hat Louise Hallman/Salzburg Global Seminar geführt.Musik: SaReGaMa - Night Campfire Kalimba 15 Tines; Jampy - Sunday Evening; Development Unity Crew - Jump Up (Federal Bross Don Valdes). Nachzuhören auf Jamendo, einer Community für freie, legale und unlimitierte Musik, die unter Creative Commons Lizenzen veröffentlicht wurde.

Over the last ten years Huntleys & Palmers has developed a level of consistency which is difficult to contest. The record label, run by Andrew Thomson, has been responsible for excursions by some of the most influential forces in dance and electronic music in the present. Helena Hauff, Sophie, Hi & Saberhagen and Mehmet Aslan all owe a due of gratitude in some capacity to Andrew as a tastemaker and a believer. The label has acted as an incubator for up and coming talent and has remained a powerful foce amidst the community. As a disc jockey Andrew has been lucky to ride prominently upon the coat-tails of the label and is widely travelled. Appearances across Europe and beyond have allowed him to develop an innovative presence behind the wheels of steel with each mix forming a deeply singular path from which came before. A dj's, dj if you will.

In 2017, Glasgow based label Huntleys + Palmers celebrates ten years in action. In that time, Andrew Thomson has ensured it became a fertile musical breeding ground and an impossible to pin down outlet that offers up anything from afro to techno to bass music. Auntie Flo, SOPHIE and Alejandro Paz have all emerged from the Glasgow based stable and have put out music that plays with off kilter rhythms. Andrew's curatorial ear has also made the parties of the same name just as unpredictable, and before it closed he was also a programmer at London’s legendary Plastic People. The mix he has served up here under the Huntleys + Palmers moniker, takes a typically widescreen view and includes “tracks that I've been playing for a while and expect I'll continue to play in years to come.” Starting steady and worldly with dub and deep cosmic grooves, it grows more twisted with wiry electronics and frazzled synths before pulling back again, then repeating the cycle. It makes for a perfectly paced and well balanced mix that bubbles and boils and always keeps you guessing without ever falling off the edge.

In this episode, author Carrie Rollwagen interviews Andrew Thomson, product designer, graphic designer and designer of The Localist book. We talk about the limitations of self-publishing and small print runs and how to utilize a self-publishing printer like Ingram Spark.

De fyra hjulen som gnistrade som krysolit 2016-09-04 Andrew Thomson by Citykyrkan Stockholm

Bringing Up Disciples

Former history librarian Susan Hoffman described Oral History as:"the ultimate example of grass roots social history." This episode of Station to Station focuses on the voices from the past, preserved in the Oral History Tape Collection at the Kitchener Public Library. (KPL) The voices you hear share their every day life experiences in the community, while others share stories of international journeys. You will hear the stories of two women who were in the same room with former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill; another who describes starting her life as a writer in the 1930s; a former Mayor who made a deal with the South during the American Civil War; and another who fought in the Spanish Civil War. To guide you, are four individuals connected to the KPL program: history librarian, Karen Ball-Pyatt; former history librarian, Susan Hoffman; and former interviewers, Frances Hoffman and Dr. Andrew Thomson. Joe has posted a list of other oral history links that may interest you on my website www.joepavia.com

Uppfostra lärjungar 2016 - 07 - 03 Andrew Thomson by Citykyrkan Stockholm

Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by Bridget Jones creator Helen Fielding, seventh Python Carol Cleveland, and Stuart J Cole who was abandoned as a baby, sent to Jamaica to live with family he had never met, and who turned his life around during a spell in prison. We go to Glyndebourne to meet Caroline and Andrew Thomson and Sandra and Ian Pusey who found real-life love at the opera, radiator salesman Phil Neville tells us what it's like to be a victim of mistaken identity and has a go at football commentary, John McCarthy visits the Isle of Wight where the dawn rose on satellite and radio technology, and Jersey Boy Ryan Molloy shares his Inheritance Tracks.Helen Fielding's anonymous column in The Independent newspaper led to a novel, then another, two films to match and, after a break of 14 years, 'Mad About The Boy', the third instalment of Bridget's trials and tribulations now graces bookshelves around the world.Caroline and Andrew Thomson and Sandra and Ian Pusey celebrated at Glyndebourne's current production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, which runs until July 11th.Stuart J Cole's books 'Two Years' and 'A Message to my Family' tell the story of his extraordinary life and are available online.Carol Cleveland will be reunited with the other members of Monty's Flying Circus ahead of their upcoming show Monty Python Live (mostly) which runs 1st -20th July at The O2 in London. Her book Pom Poms Up! is out now.Ryan Molloy is currently starring in 'The Jersey Boys' on Broadway. He inherits 'The Night' by Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, and passes on Donny Hathaway's 'A Song For You'.Producer: Alex Lewis.

Snow White and the Four Convicts (2009)Directed By: Alek SabinStarring: Anna Lensch, Bri'anna Cootey, Jake Larrabee, Holden Smith, Andrew Thomson, Alek Sabin, Denise Jahns, Jonas Hanspach, Austin Hammer, Josh BennetProduced by: Josh Bennet, Alek Sabin