{"id":625,"date":"2011-05-04T16:13:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T05:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/?p=625"},"modified":"2011-05-04T16:13:41","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T05:13:41","slug":"namibia-going-to-respect-previous-commitments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/namibia-going-to-respect-previous-commitments\/","title":{"rendered":"EXT &#8211; Namibia going to respect previous commitments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by the market activity in Extract Resources today (up 15%) the Namibian nationalization threat may not be applicable to EXT. However PDN&#8217;s fortunes aren&#8217;t seen by the market as being all that rosy (down 0.3%). Also today&#8217;s &#8220;Update regarding possible offer for Kalahari&#8221; could have been the positive factor&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>According to a story in miningaustralia: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningaustralia.com.au\/news\/aussie-miners-wont-be-affected-by-namibias-legis\">http:\/\/www.miningaustralia.com.au\/news\/aussie-miners-wont-be-affected-by-namibias-legis<\/a> &#8220;The Chamber of Mines in Namibia said Minister Katali told the organisation that changes won&#8217;t affect existing mine licences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Held rights won&#8217;t be affected,&#8221; a spokesman for the president told The Australian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t mean the state-owned entity will have a controlling stake&#8230;it&#8217;s not a form of nationalisation.&#8221; Australian-listed miners in Namibia said last week that the government has continued to be supportive of their projects. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningaustralia.com.au\/news\/aussie-miners-wont-be-affected-by-namibias-legis\">read full article<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nBut here is the tricky bit: According to  2\/5\/2011 &#8220;Update on Proposed Policy Changes&#8221; &#8211; Extract is confident that the proposed policy changes will not adversely affect its Exclusive Prospecting Licences (EPL) or its<strong> Husab Uranium Project Mining Licence Application<\/strong> (MLA), lodged on 10, December 2010. Now re-read: The Chamber of Mines in Namibia said Minister Katali told the organisation <strong>that changes won&#8217;t affect existing mine licences<\/strong><em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by the market activity in Extract Resources today (up 15%) the Namibian nationalization threat may not be applicable to EXT. However PDN&#8217;s fortunes aren&#8217;t seen by the market as being all that rosy (down 0.3%). Also today&#8217;s &#8220;Update regarding possible offer for Kalahari&#8221; could have been the positive factor&#8230; According to a story in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/namibia-going-to-respect-previous-commitments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;EXT &#8211; Namibia going to respect previous commitments?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}