Despatches from Dannystan (II)

Another curious passage from Roy MacGregor's article in Monday's edition of Canada's sub-National Newspaper:

Williams has been trying to gain access to Quebec power transmission lines for years without success.

(1) For how many years has this trying been happening, exactly?

(2) So when Danny (and not his notional minister of natural resources, whoever that is) announced this thing back in April... was he just kidding? Was it a success, and simultaneously not a success?