The NOB article says at the end:

[Bill Boor, Cliffs’ vice-president of corporate development, contended that, unless directed otherwise, his sole focus remains proving up the value of the project.

He offered no direct comment on Noront’s ambitions, but responded that companies with viable Ring of Fire projects should be working together.

“We’ve got the same objective and making highly speculative statements isn’t all that productive.”], (underlined mine).

So, finally Bill recognized the merit of working in co-operation together. Presumably, NOT/Coutts is listening to Bill's advice...and gets rid of its adversarial stance against KWG (court case and all the talks about developing the RoF resources alone). Synergy is just common sense! May be Bill was instructed to say these words of wisdom, or he just wanted to turn around 180 degress to save his job at CLF.

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