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As long as the bid keeps up with it. Otherwise we just get a massive spread.

It would make sense for the Minister to react to the Ambassador in that way. It must be a little embarrassing for the Slovene government that an Ambassador feels it necessary to get involved on behalf of a company. They wouldn't do it lightly.

3p by Christmas Baxter?

SP still not above 0.6p. That's still an MCap of less than £14 million. Let's hope Colin gets on well with the Minister.

Don't think I would word it as forcing the Ministers hand as such. On an open forum the Minister has to be given some credence. We've seen how the Slovene media has used the tweets and emails that have been against them, as they see it.

In fact anyone emailing Sophie Honey were replied to in just that way with an email saying to contact AST for information.

Good post Crumble. I believe Colin is of the same way of thinking. He's always been like that in past dealings. When you're actually dealing on the ground you get to know the local way's and conform to them. That's what he's been doing up till now. But many back in the U.K. have different way's of thinking that seem sensible here but wouldn't work there.

Good article. Look at the proximity to Hungary and Croatia in conjunction with the following extract:

"Small-scale hydraulic stimulation is regularly carried out in our immediate vicinity, in Hungary and Croatia."

It's already happening in the immediate vicinity.

Just spoken to HL again and they don't need ten working days notice, just five days. However they should still action any requests if they are able to.

There is no number on HL for corporate actions. You have to call their general number and they then deal with their 'corporate actions' department.

The darkest hour is the one before the Dawn? I think she's been laid off though.

He could have issued an RNS two weeks ago referring to 'unsupported news reports', having to meet with the Minister first and assuring shareholders nothing had changed. Rather than the knee jerk reaction we had with threats of legal action.

He needs to meet the Minister before he can say anything. All he currently has is what's in these news articles. That's not something he can RNS on. Oh wait, he has done already after the Minister's tweet two weeks ago.

The country and foreign investment has to suffer because of one vulgar email? That's just not credible.

A good, reasonable statement. Hopefully will calm the situation and provide information to the Slovene public so they can see the common sense of developing the gas field.

He resigned because he was pushed. In business if you resign, you retain all the benefits of resigning. If you're sacked you lose those benefits. Hence he 'resigned'.

Trouble is the Environment Minister overrides the Courts when it comes to government policy.

Johnny, it's a green stitch up. They're attacking AST and the British Ambassador.

The bit after welshandproud's translated piece:

Another procedure in which control was ordered is related to the requirement to carry out a preliminary procedure for examining the maintenance of productivity in the extraction of mineral resources. The application was made by Geoenergo, the project leader in Petišovci, owned by Petrol and Nafta Lendava. Initially, they applied for permission to "restimulate the two wells" and later renamed the name of the procedure into "maintenance of productivity in the extraction of mineral substances".

It is a key permit that would allow the start of gas extraction in Petišovci with so-called hydraulic low-volume stimulation. This would significantly increase the capacity of the existing two wells or prolong their lifetime.

After the introduction of control, Ascent Resources has been threatened by the procedures before the EU Court due to delays in examining their role, and threats of alleged shareholders of Lebnu have appeared on social networks. In Geoener, the pressure on Arso was denied.

Non-parliamentary parties for the defense of the British ambassador
The non-parliamentary parties Pirati, Solidarity and ZL-DSD urged Foreign Minister Mira Cerar to invite UK Ambassador Sophie Honey for lobbying and alleged pressure to obtain permits from the British gas extraction company in Petišovsko polje. The non-governmental organizations Mladinska zveza Brez izgovora, Slovenian Odontology Society, Ecologists Without Borders, Institute for Youth Participation, Health and Sustainable Development and Non-Governmental Environmental Organization (Rovo) joined the invitation of three parliamentary parties.

Environmental activist Gorazd Marinček said on behalf of non-parliamentary parties at today's press conference that the ambassador was lobbying for a hydraulic breakdown for the British company Ascent Resources for the production of natural gas in Petišovci, although he knows that such gas extraction is banned in her country. "In particular, the ambassador lobbied for fracking with then Prime Minister Cerar and economic minister Zdravko Počivalšek in the sense that the state authorities should speed up licensing," he said.

Marinček added that the British company in the elaborates of hydraulic stimulation fluid defines water as mixed chemicals, but which are labeled as toxic to all living beings with international labels. He also drew attention to the alleged pressure from the British company Ascent Resources. According to him, he presses the Slovenian administrative authorities inadmissibly, but, as Marinček put it, the prescribed deadlines are adhered to when assessing and issuing permits.

The environmentalist I apparently give too much credence to are causing more trouble:

https://www.dnevnik.si/1042846579/slovenija/1042846579