if both parties know that it will be a waste of time administratively speaking?

Good point

And probably consistent with everything we know so far

They may have some sort of agreement in principle and are just bypassing the formalities.....I would hope....

It does look like we are where we are going to be, market wise

If our earning 94% of the project outright, which is where are now, has no effect on the shares price, as it now appears, we may have moose pasture in the eyes of the market as was pointed out with the initial BFS release