Hi Mark

I've slipped over from the NOT BB for a moment to comment on your post re "shackles".

After a moment of DD I wish to comment:

Macquarie bought 10%; (have seen zero 3d party confirmation of this) to date, as of this post. Also MacQ has a publicaly traded (TO) infastructure investmet sub ( HQ -Tor) which has a CDN Pres. appointed June /2011 who is also Ex BMO. (look it up on Google).

Didn't BMO do the $25M + wrts PP for PRB?? (while current Mcquarie pres.?ex BMO was i/c the infastructure unit)?

Why would McQ buy 10% of PRB? , I asked myself, so quickly following the last friday 10% purchase of NOT shares by the 10% Denver based hedger fundpurchase?

Possible answer: to finance/own/fee-for-truck-fee hwy. + hydro/solar/wind PRB(NOT) infastructure .... after they (McQ) makes a deal to facilitate/buy PRB control-influence and deal PRB to NOT ( or somebody larger, such as BAO) in return for a McQ 3P financing deal to finance NOT/PRB/ONT GoV infastructure to CLF/NOT/ PRB sites + others in ROF.

I think that ONT will utilize 3P funding finance model( lack of $$), (3P=private/public/personal/?) funding mechanism to enter partial ownership status in RoF (and get ownwer ship of infastructures royalty revenues), with McQ involved as a key source of financing.

Also, I suspect that these PRB shares will be BOT deal transfered to the either/and/or entities called CLF; NOT.... or their major controllers.

What do you think?

Peter