But it's too late now and we need to let it go and move on.

And a real good place to move on to would be announcing our plan to drill the waste at first thaw in order to buttress the project economics for the benefit of the operators, whoever that might be

You know, an early plan to throw more on our plate

Is there some reason why Elmer can't/won't do this?

It's not like it would cost any more than distributing a PR

Or maybe for some reason we really don't want to know yet what is in that "waste"

Not sure what the benefit is to us to not know, but it's sorta like how God operates in mysterious ways...