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The Times, p51

"The government will pay National Grid £630m to buy the business responsible for keeping Britain's lights on as it establishes a new public entity for running the energy system.

The National Energy System Operator, or Nesco, will be launched in October as an independent body that will bring oversight of the electricity and gas systems together for the first time, a move that Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, said would help to build a network 'fit for the future" ...

When you are persistently negative on a stock, it takes you time to realise you've got it wrong and the stock is sky-rocketing.

That time can cost you a great deal when you are shorting.

Suspect most of those suggesting shorting are talking the talk but not walking the walk: if they were walking the walk, they would have retired hurt to the pavilion following the recent multiplication of the share price by more than 8x.

The day's volume before any late reports:

AIM: 35.5m

Aquis: 49.6m

Total: 85.1m

Much better volume day: a delayed AIM trade of 20m just went through at the mid price.

Volume so far this session:

Aquis (2 trades): 49.2m

2nd trade was of about 34.9m at 0.041p at 10:35:35

AIM: 1.7m

Total: 50.9m

"Is a sale of the company in progress?"

Not according to the market.

What is Kemexon's average buy-in price? In the 1.50-1.70p range maybe?

But it is for 14.3m at 0.0438p so the market is on Aquis so far this morning.

Unable to post all of the extracts:

there's also a 3rd, beginning "In July 2024 ..."

... In May 2024, Alba announced that it had excavated nearly 33 tonnes of

That's the most recent information we have, I believe, (all from the interim results RNS of 30/08).

... Also in February 2024:

... - following a review of the plan for future exploitation of the historic waste tip at Clogau ("Waste Tip"), the Company announced that it had submitted a notification under Permitted Development Rights to carry out a trenching programme prior to submitting a planning application for the Waste Tip.

... In May 2024, Alba announced that it had excavated nearly 33 tonnes of

Bit early to describe the government as "this lame arriss Gov", imho. For his part, Ed Miliband appears to be tackling his brief with vigour.

"You ignore basic facts which don't fit your fantasy theories, just one example being that UKOG still don't meet the criteria to even lodge an application for the 1st round of funding".

Another fact, ZYX098, is that the government has changed and with it the timetable for implementing net zero policy has accelerated.

There are several mentions of the waste tip in the recently published interim results RNS, 30/08:

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/news-article/ALBA/half-yearly-report-and-first-blast-at-clogau/16641386

Volume of 735.4m shares, 6.60% of issued shares of 11.14bn, similar to Tuesday's figure (before the late -reported trade of 84.25m).

As the days pass, these figures add up. Is the buying spread across PIs? Or are we heading for a TR-1 from a significant buyer?

The price of gold continues to climb.

Alba have always kept their running costs as low as possible.

Extract some bonanza grade gold and the impact on their figures and the share price should be immediate.

The previous high was $2,531.70

https://www.kitco.com/charts/gold

Biggest volume stock on the market by a long way at present: 726.0m shares.

It's an interesting session this morning, really solid volume (549.4m reported so far).

Some buying pressure raising the bid.