With the lack of detail provided by council, no way to be sure if NTL or the council is behind the overall delay. To be fair, the council probably don’t have to disclose anything further and if they did it could be material to the outcome.
They may be waiting on information from NTL – but could be a hypothetical case of
1. Standard request for A, B and C from council for TMP
2. A, B and C provided by NTL
3. Subsequent request for D from council
4. D provided by NTL
5. Subsequent request for E from council
6. E provided by NTL
etc.
Which means the council statement could be correct after step 1. (which would be NTL delay). Equally possible is they are at step .3., 5. etc. which wouldn’t really be NTL’s fault, but still technically correct that they are “awaiting formation, from New Talisman Gold Mines LTD…”
Alternatively, we don’t have much more information from NTL themselves in the last quarter announcement. So we are almost equally in the dark here. Though the wording in the last quarter around “a continuous review process” would seem to me to infer that we are currently in one of the hypothetical step 3. or .5 scenarios above.
All speculation, can’t wait to put this (accepted) TMP behind us.