Conditional of possibility

In his year-end interview with the Transcontinental weeklies, O.D.P. says:

"And we could have the lower Churchill project underway," said Mr. Williams. "We could have a possibility of an aluminum smelter spinning off from the lower Churchill project."

"Could have". "Possibility".

That's awfully tentative for someone who is, or was, supposedly, "working towards a project sanction in 2009".