Watch: Nick Welsh Goes Deep and Detailed on Santa Barbara's Offshore Oil Wars, with a Primer on the Raging Sable vs. California Conflict

As the shifty Texas oil company gears up to gain Donald Trump's approval of plans for launching offshore tankers, SB's top journalist on the beat deconstructs, demystifies and disentangles the story.

In a special emergency episode, Santa Barbara Independent Executive Editor Nick Welsh takes a deep dive into the politics of oil, Santa Barbara’s most consequential, roiling, and long-running local conflict.

The Indy’s award-winning columnist reprises this week’s blockbuster exclusive, which disclosed the looming threat by the Sable Offshore oil company to resume barging oil off the coast of Santa Barbara from its platforms in federal waters - unless local and state officials immediately acquiesce to its demand to reopen the antiquated pipeline that ruptured, causing the 2015 Refugio spill.

In a sprawling and in-depth conversation with the genial host, the Angry Poodle brings the sweep of history and an unrivaled institutional local memory to the task of placing the current controversy in full context - deconstructing, demystifying, and disentangling the multitude of threads in the contentious Sable oil story.

It’s all here, right now on Newsmakers TV.

Check out our discussion with Nick Welsh via YouTube below, or by clicking through this link. Our podcast is available on Apple, Spotify, or on Soundcloud here. TVSB, Channel 17, airs the show every weeknight at 5 p.m. and at 9 a.m. on Saturday and Sunday. KCSB, 91.9 FM, broadcasts the program at 5:30 p.m. on Monday.

Image: A protest boat sends a message offshore Santa Barbara, following the catastrophic 1969 oil spill (Los Angeles Times).