RE: STOW impact7 Sep 2021 15:37
sc,
Firstly there is no need to shout.
OK for
a: maybe I misread your deep whatever about lombard payments, maybe I never, but pointless debating it.
As for b:
I don't think anyone can be of any doubt that a payment for the licence fees are due.
As far as I know bpc/ ceg sent an amount to the govt in relation to the fees but the govt rejected it and now they are in discussions over the amount owed. So ceg obviously think that they must owe something or why send a payment in the first place.
As to the amount owed it was reported in the press, Tribune242.
"The minister, who could not be reached for comment yesterday, said on Wednesday that the government would not even consider the renamed Challenger Energy Group’s application to renew its four southern Bahamas exploration licences for a further three years - with an obligation to drill another exploratory well in Bahamian territorial waters - until the outstanding fees were paid.
Mr Ferreira asserted that Challenger had not paid its seabed lease fees since 2017, a sum that had reached to over $1.9m as of last year, with another $1m already owed for this year to-date."
So I have no doubt that Bahamian govt officials have the same integrity as say our own in as far as
I swear to tell the truth the whole etc etc.
The fact that ceg have not stated how much they believe they owe only leaves the figure of $2.9m as qouted.