RE: Defamation of Character Suit Needed The aboriginal groups want a share of the royalties and they have been trying to tell the government that they can't issue the EA without the royalty deal in place. Avanti has been saying that how the government divides up the royalties has no bearing on the EA. Obviously the government has not made a deal with the natives and this is the natives trying to blackmail the situation. If I can see this - so can everyone else - so this should not go far at all since governments aren't big on blackmail and the civil servants that have been doing the EA have doe their job thouroughly and well.
All this does is maybe raise the profile of the project a touch.
If I was the ministers - I would sign the approval quickly to shut this sillyness down.