This looks like a government funded/assisted "make-work" project, meaning that it exists to keep a number of people employed for a few years, with the help of government and private funding. The project will go on until it's no longer viable, and then it will cease to be... that will take about 10-15 years... each year the corporation will do a sales pitch get more funding, because they are "almost there".... In the end, nothing will come of it.