Agree our wildcat (scatter gun) approach has not done us many...

Agree our wildcat (scatter gun) approach has not done us many favours, in hindsight we would have been better served by undertaking a 3D survey of Icewine East in 2015 instead of the later 2D which would have been tax credit supported (& paid by the state promptly before the embargo on purchases by the state hit).
GBP in its original incarnation was led by Ed Duncan who has a strong geological background and who took full advantage of the Alaskan exploration incentives* to 3D and Lidar map their leases, they were in ~3years ahead of us but even so got badly burned when the tax credit scheme fell through in 2016/7 and ultimately resulted in the PANR purchase.
Back in the early days Jimbeaux & myself had a number of conversations regarding GBP's activities, had they been able to continue testing and drilling during the 2016-18 period who knows where they and us may have been today.