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It’s classic mushroom management, keep everyone in the dark and throw s**t at them
Definitely not good enough for my vote. New broom but same old mess
I understand what you are saying Guys,
But we cannot allow Scott and the others to take us for granted. It should be a 2 way street. Right now it's 1 way. They are taking fat salaries while we are left in the dark with an opened SR, decimated SP, with no certainty when or if things will change. I believe that rewards should be earned and I haven't seen what he has done to warrant our unwavering support. Just endless talk, and talk about rocks.
It might have done just about enough to secure his job at next AGM but it certainly hasn't earned those Bonus shares this year that's for sure, so he can give them back. If they think they are going to award more shares next year... then they can properly xxxx off! The days of awarding directors in this company should be over. It's time for them to deliver.
I most certainly won't be voting against Caldwell. He and his supporters are the only people to offer any hope of getting out of this situation - it's just going to take longer than we'd hoped.
Do you think poor people are driving around in twenty year old bangers because they’ve got 60k kicking around for a new merc?
Once they’re good enough and cheap enough, people will willingly buy them but they’re nowhere near and the infrastructure problem hadn’t been solved. How do you charge at home if you live on a terraced row or in a block of flats
And where does your heat pump go? Some people’s houses and radiators have to be adapted including expensive redecoration
All to appease the eco zealots for absolutely no proven reason
Sunak isn’t going for enough delaying five years; it’s like Josef Fritzl giving his captor an egg sandwich after five days
Scrap the whole lunacy!
Agree Italian
We don’t want another change at the top right now
He was always going to need time to unwind some of the damage , especially that done during DC’s short tenure
Come on guys, "things" are not clear only to the extent that we are dealing with a South American government particularly at the wrong time, and with possible investors who have not yet felt the urgency of buying us.
It has become clear by now that NM thought he could sell it but did not do the right things and in fact alienated stakeholders on all fronts, and it's clear that the positive disruption that SC is trying to deliver is based on making the project feasible and economical in the real world, where the probability of either finding a buyer, a JV partner or else raise money for ourselves is higher.
The last thing you want to do is to vote SC out before he can bring the strategy HE HAS EXPLAINED to fruition. The only change we need, is a project that is objectively feasible and economical, and it was not under NM or DC. What would we get is SC is pushed out, other than another setback, lack of clarity and direction, and more exposure to the vultures who are just waiting to get us when we are too weak to negotiate?
Eloro
I’m sure they’re fully aware of the general frustration at lack of any clarity.
Lol…..every car manufacturer is preparing for EVs, small ICEs will be too expensive to manufacture with the EU7 directive.
Sunak’s olive branch will make zero difference to the world wide adoption of BEVs
EVs will be so cheap in the next 5 years with 500m+ range, the Merc EQE is already 400 ish before the new technology hits.
The wind turbine zero bids are because the companies wanted a greater guaranteed cost which was still way below the cost of burning fossil fuels.
You keep on burying your head in the sand about the cost we-hike everyone else makes hay.
Even if I didn’t have access to the free charger its less than £3 for the 200m trip to charge or at home, hmmm let me think shall I go and fill up at a garage for £50 or charge it over night at home for £3…….that’s a tough one
You twist the figures to suit your agenda, the difference was £1300, for a house 3 times the size and it has got cheaper in the last 12 months for heat pumps.
You can lead a horse to water.
The red ramper with a hybrid…….lol
So what will be your argument when EV’s have a 1000mile range
DBW, perhaps Ship could pass on the message to solg during their next call that they need to throw us a bone, otherwise we will be siding with BHP at the next AGM.
Fed up of hearing Scott banging on about the rocks, while ignoring the fact that the SP is at rock bottom. So disappointed with his lack of concern for the SP and him not doing anything to turn it around.
Dear me red giving your age away there, you’re not even allowed in a Volvo showroom until you’re seventy.
Hybrids are the best if both worlds, clean school and supermarket runs but proper range when you’re going somewhere more distant
But they weren’t good enough for the eco fascists
Got two new grandaughters.
Switched my AMG for a Volvo Hybrid.
I'll never own an EV. Their manufacture alone does massive damage to the environment.
I've also never bought a new car in 55 years...
So how can you subsidise 30 million homes in the U.K. at a price of £5,000 per house…..with taxpayers money, ie our own
How do you get a free charge when 40 million cars all want to use one free charger?
Where do people who live in flats put a heat pump pr a charger?
Why were there zero bids for new wind turbines the other week? Because even with huge subsidy they are no longer feasible
Meanwhile many lifetimes supply of cheap gas lies right beneath our feet going to waste
Clown world
Bozi, I'm more than happy to admit I was delighted when it was announced. This was based on two things: 1) an assumption that they had a pretty clear view of what they wanted and were confident it was deliverable in the nearish term, and 2) investor fatigue on my behalf.
I was wrong on the first point, and my fatigue has worsened.
Bozi ….. re reviews
My fear is that the board get unseated/ or at least a vote of no confidence, and the whole way forward needs reviewing again with God knows who at the helm.
Current BOD doing themselves no favours and certainly not winning over pi’s …… if they told us what was happening we may feel differently ( I realise of course they are restricted in what they can say to some extent )
Add - there were plenty calling for a strategic review of SOLG before the merger with CGP was announced so personally I'm not convinced it's fair to now label it as naivety, unless it comes with an admission that those calls were the same.
Hi Orthern - my theory is that once all permits have been achieved (I believe imminent which Scott may have also revealed but lets say 8 - 12 weeks), then development can start and this is when the funding proposal is revealed.
What’s strange about it, they were £4500 each incl vat, when you work the figures out allow for the grant it was £3800 incl installation and no Vat on the heat pumps. The gas boiler was £2500.
Perhaps a lot of people cannot afford the outlay initially but anyone that can and there are lots that can can easily justify the cost with the ROI. Just because you are too blinkered in your old habits does not mean everyone else is.
Electric is ridiculously cheap compared to fossil fuel energy and that is only going one way when they reduce the reliance on the electric price off of the gas price which the UK still does.
You carry on blowing your hard earned cash, on your fossil like ways, while everyone else moves into the 21st century.
I’ll appreciate the clean air in central London this weekend, having traveled 200m there and back thanks to the free public charger close by……..
BBG…. Why 8-12 weeks? I’d suggest if there is a deal lingering in the background… you’d be closer to 8-12 months
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Quady….show me one of your posts from prior to 22 mar 2013 then! Simple
While you’re at it, are you finally admitting you were wrong about the BHP bod percentage or am I going to have to take your pants down in front of everyone once more?
Orthern - I agree.
My belief is that they will not release a PFS update and or result of any SR as both are solely a tactic to delay things whilst permits are finalised over the next 8-12 weeks.
If a deal has been done which it seems the govt already knows about... it would be full of condition precedents which would largely be related to achieving the various main permit approvals therefore lets tell small stakeholders that we are running internal programs (Scott mentioned that we are preparing 'an internal PFS which will be presented to the Board in December/January. This is bullturd)
We have received some strong hints lately that ellude to a conditional arrangement being already agreed.... These are:
*All drilling has been stopped across tenements (they would only do this at the request of a potential buyer willing to pay a price they accept, and the buyer not wanting more value being realised by solg pre announcement of any pending deal).
*Govt illustrating that we are proceeding in various new articles ( why are they confident regarding the ability to fund the capex)
*Govt extending extraction permits (why halt the progress of all permits across Ecuador, however they announce that solgold's permit will be the only permit extended)
*Solgold finalising enviro permits and tailings dam survey (sounds like the eventual buyer of the project believes our low profile and credibility is better placed to secure these items. Proposing a process such as a PFS update can help buy more time - a major wouldnt care about starting small. The original PFS would be the target).
*Scott saying 'we won't develop this but its going to get developed' (we await the news).
...the Ecuadorian Govt and Solgold have major confidence in this project proceeding..... What do they know which us plebs don't know?
That’s strange, you were crowing you had two not long back at a cost of £4500 each
Normal families haven’t got that cash and if they did manage to save a few grand it’s more likely to be spent on a holiday or upgrading the car than some woke utopian wet dream.
They’ve got a boiler and a heating system already and if the country wasn’t held by the throat by transgender green extremists, we’d all have cheap power to keep warm
Addickt
They weren’t that expensive.
I had a new gas boiler fitted at a property last year and 2 heat pumps fitted at home, the difference in installation for both was £1300 fir the heat pumps on a property 3 times the size of the gas boiler property.
Admittedly I had panels, batteries and new radiators fitted as well to make it work more efficiently.
The cost of gas at home in October was the same as the heat pumps in January.
However heat pumps v gas boiler not that much difference in installation costs with the grant. Heat pump installation costs have dropped substantially since last year.
If I had had more time, and know what I know now, I would have swapped the gas boiler for a heat pump without question.
Good grief slug I know you are the most unintelligent poster on here, but to suggest you can't see any think older than 2013 on my site.
The answer is maybe I got banned and came back as another name.
That is beyond idiot as quady has been a member since 2011, which you still can't get your single Braincell round.
Maybe that has malfunctioned.