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Note 12 - Leases

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

NOTE 12 – LEASES

Effective January 1, 2021, the Company entered into two 29-year right-of-way agreements with the United States Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) with respect to the Company’s Northern Pipeline asset which resulted in recording right-of-way assets and lease liabilities in the amount of $3.3 million. The right-of-way agreements have a combined annual rent expense of approximately $321,000, with annual defined inflation increases.

The Company also has operating leases for corporate offices, vehicles and office equipment. The Company’s right-of-way agreements and leases have remaining lease terms of 1 month to 28 years as of December 31, 2021. However, the Company is not reasonably certain to exercise options to renew or terminate, and therefore renewal and termination options are not considered in the lease term or the right-of-use asset and lease liability balances. The Company’s current lease arrangements expire in 2049. The Company does not have any finance leases.

The Company’s lease population does not include any residual value guarantees, and therefore none were considered in the calculation of the lease balances. The Company has leases with variable payments, most commonly in the form of common area maintenance charges which are based on actual costs incurred. These variable payments were excluded from the right-of-use asset and lease liability balances since they are not fixed or in-substance fixed payments.

The Company elected to utilize the transition package of practical expedients permitted within the new standard, including the practical expedient not to reassess existing land easements, which among other things, allows the Company to carryforward the historical lease classification. The Company has lease agreements with lease and non-lease components and has elected the practical expedient to account for lease and non-lease components as a single lease component for real-estate class of leases only. For leases with terms greater than 12 months, the Company records the related asset and lease liability at the present value of lease payments over the lease term. Leases with an initial term of 12 months or less with purchase options or extension options that are not reasonably certain to be exercised are not recorded on the Consolidated Balance Sheets; the Company recognizes lease expense for these leases on a straight-line basis over the term of the lease.

Lease balances. Amounts recognized in the accompanying consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2021 and 2020 are as follows (in thousands):

As of December 31, 2021
Activity	Balance Sheet Location	Balance
ROU assets	Other assets	$	3,281
Short-term lease liability	Other liabilities	$	24
Long-term lease liability	Other long-term liabilities	$	3,257

As of December 31, 2020
Activity	Balance Sheet Location	Balance
ROU assets	Other assets	$	15
Short-term lease liability	Other liabilities	$	15
Long-term lease liability	Other long-term liabilities	$	-

Lease cost. The Company’s operating lease cost for the year ended December 31, 2021 was $335 thousand.

Lease commitments. The table below summarizes the Company’s scheduled future minimum lease payments under operating, recorded on the balance sheet as of December 31, 2021 (in thousands):

2022	$	321
2023		321
2024		321
2025		321
2026+		7,691
Total lease payments		8,975
Less: Imputed interest		(5,694	)
Present value of lease payments		3,281
Less: current maturities of lease obligations		(24	)
Long-term lease obligations	$	3,257

Most of our lease agreements do not provide a readily determinable implicit rate nor is it available to us from our lessors. Instead, we estimate the Company’s incremental borrowing rate based on information available at either the implementation date of Topic 842 or at lease commencement for leases entered into thereafter in order to discount lease payments to present value. The table below presents additional information related to our leases as of December 31, 2021:

Weighted Average Remaining Lease Term
Operating leases (years)	28

Weighted Average Discount Rate
Operating leases		10	%

From a lessor standpoint, in February 2016, the Company entered into a lease agreement with Fenner Valley Farms LLC (“FVF”) (the “lessee”), pursuant to which FVF is leasing, for a 99-year term, 2,100 acres owned by Cadiz in San Bernardino County, California, to be used to plant, grow and harvest agricultural crops (“FVF Lease Agreement”). As consideration for the lease, FVF paid the Company a one-time payment of $12.0 million upon closing. The Company expects to receive rental income of $420 thousand annually over the next five years related to the FVF Lease Agreement.