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I think you are on the wrong chat site....

why does the government need any more responses? they can make a decision now. you know they can. more responses = more reasons for further deliberations and delay. How much evidence do you need before you realise the game plan?

Everyone clearly agrees with your 11.38 post............ .........except for the government

Trump card? Have they only just noticed these mines? The government granted their permits, for goodness sake. The government won�t make a decision. Just accep it...

Look, the CAB�s 14 year assertion is just noise. The government could and should have granted the permit long ago. There is no requirement to prove up the entirety of an ore deposit in order to secure a license. The government, being unwilling to make a decision, love all this to-ing and fro-ing. It suits their agenda perfectly. Several other mining permits have been granted over the years in Sweden without the need to prove up an ore body to such a degree, some of which are closer to Laponia, I might add. Sure, if the scoping study results look encouraging, chuck them in for comments from all and sundry. That, too suits the government, but it won�t make them make a decision. As an aside, everyone is already talking about the next �deadline� in March. A deadline is a date, by which some clear action or decision should happen. So, it�s not a deadline, is it? The government have never said ok, answer these few questions and we�ll make a decision. They have kicked the can down the street so often, I actually feel sorry for the can. ATB

Kurt has said on many occasions that the already submitted application documentation warrants the granting of the license. Because he knows the scoping study is separate.

You do not have a case to rest. The scoping study does not form part of the application.

If a scoping study was a requirement of the application process, it would have been carried out 5 years ago. BEM took it upon themselves to commission the study for their own good reasons. Nothing to do with the application process. The government know full well there is more of the ore body to prove up as any hypothetical mine is in development. The point is the governernment are not obliged to consider the study�s findings. As you have pointed out, the government will not make a decision which is open to challenge. Imagine if the government said yes on the basis of the scoping study results. A challenge would immediately be made on the grounds that the scoping study falls outside the remit of the application process, which it does. Just my opinion .

What does?

More wishful thinking Suzy. The application documentation is closed and forms 100% of the information the government is obliged to consider. Have the government specifically requested the results of the scoping study? No.

I know full well that you have not filtered me. The scoping study results will not be admissible as part of the application process. The application documentation was completed some time ago as you we�ll know. Of course Kurt is upbeat. He is attending a mining conference and it is his job. Negative and positive are not labels I recognise as I have said many times. There is only valid and invalid.

And with respect, where and when is that � point � The goVernment is the highest authority. They hold all the cards. Who can put a deadline on the government to make a decision? Without a legal challenge from the company, there is no deadline which the government will accept.

No. Never. Because the swedish government will not make a decision.

It is incredible to me that, after almost 5 years there are people whose opinion of all this relies on their wishful thinking rather than the relentless and overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

Absolutely... The one that drives me crazy is could of, should of etc. It is could have should have. Both verbal and written laziness and abuse of our language. Even BBC presenters do it.

Sadly the government has no interest in making a decision at all...

Completely unnecessary. The government have been in a position ti decide for a long time.

There would be more requests for comments. Eventually you will accept my assessment of this circus. The government have thrown the process out of the window and gone awol. KB has referred rather more obviously to the law this morning, which is now the inevitable path he must take unless he chooses to throw in the towel.

Thanks once again for your comments. I am not going to post on here for a while. The people who have believed for over 3 years that the concession is about to be awarded and the SP will immediately rocket are clearly misguided, in my opinion. The fact that the fifth anniversay looms with no sign of a conclusion does nothing to shake their delusions. Of course they are entitled to that view. I look forward to looking in from time to time to see how excited people are telling one another they are at watching paint dry and paying for the privilege. Good luck with your own stake.

The wagons have been circled once again. As long as you keep biting, I�ll keep on baiting. I can�t be any more generous with my advice than that.