Wooooo Hooooo Go BPH :)$$$$$$, page-6413

isnt past performance a valid reason?

they have a had a permit for years and drilled a duster and failed to redrill and now want an extension.

do they have experience in large exploration projects?

Refusal to grant an exploration permit
1.55. The grounds the Joint Authority may take into account for refusing to grant an exploration
permit, include, but are not limited to, circumstances where the:
a) Proposed work program is assessed to be inferior to that of a competing bid.
b) Proposed work program is assessed to be inadequate to significantly advance the
exploration status of the area.
c) Proposed work program does not support the technical evaluation.
d) Joint Authority is not satisfied the applicant possesses the financial capacity to facilitate
the proposed work program, in addition to other guaranteed work program
commitments in other titles under the OPGGS Act the applicant and/or parent company
has an interest in.
e) Joint Authority is not satisfied the applicant possesses the technical capacity to
facilitate the proposed work program.
f) Joint Authority is not satisfied the past performance of the applicant in Australia or
internationally


plenty there for them to make a case on. Naive to think that they cant make a case on some of these reasons.