No doubt management of Noront needs to be on their toes as any major will be looking at what ever methods available to them to gain an upper hand on all others at the expense of everyone to gain the advantage. Big business is shrewd and only have the best interest on their shareholders (suppose to anyways)at hand and WILL step on anyone who gets in their way. The best senario is to develop a situation where a couple of majors start to bid against each other. (watching for any signs of collusion of course)
I am also waiting for results on DE2 and look for positive results also. In the meantime while we wait I thought you may enjoy this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfz2XDXaeqc