Jean,

I am doing my best to see if Noront management can do that for us by forwarding my concern to them.  This issue of obtaining information about the status of our EA, not to mention why it is taking so long to approve, is a nightmare.  Noront's EA request was started close to 8 years ago.  There is absolutely no reason why this EA should not be done, signed, sealed, and delivered.  The fact that Noront management does not appear overly concerned about this, and has not kept us shareholders informed, is very puzzling.  Either they are not worried whatsoever about its approval, or they have been given assurances that it will be approved.  Either way, all this talk about everything other than the EA I should hope means it's in the bag.

TM.