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Speaker 1: Right now though, from one disaster to another. That pylon

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Speaker 1: up in Northland that fell over and caused something different

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Speaker 1: impacts and damage across the region. Transpower is going to

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Speaker 1: be paying one million dollars towards resilient power projects for

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Speaker 1: Northland following that transmission tower collapse. Grant McCallum is the

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Speaker 1: North and the MP. He's with us this morning, Grant,

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Speaker 1: Good morningding right.

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Speaker 2: And the difference between this and the cyclone damage is

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Speaker 2: that this was not an act of God. It was

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Speaker 2: an active and competence.

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Speaker 1: But we all know that, yes, quite right. Is this

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Speaker 1: enough to make up for it?

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Speaker 2: No, of course not. I don't think anyone's under illusion

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Speaker 2: about that. But I think one of the lot of

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Speaker 2: people don't realize is that Transpower do not have to

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Speaker 2: guarantee power supply. It's in the act. And so to

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Speaker 2: actually get them to give up cough up with anything

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Speaker 2: is it was quite a challenge, to be fair, but

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Speaker 2: we managed. So we managed to squirrel a million dollars

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Speaker 2: out of them, which we'll use to a region wide

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Speaker 2: projects and benefit of Auckland. Not not a lot of

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Speaker 2: money really, but at least it's an acknowledgment in a

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Speaker 2: good will payment sense that they did actually cause some

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Speaker 2: harm to the people of Northland.

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Speaker 1: What do you reckon The cost was teams of millions?

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Speaker 2: Well, well it was. I've seen estimates ranging from forty

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Speaker 2: to eighty million, So take your pick, you know.

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Speaker 1: And they gave you one. They gave you one.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but they started at zero and when they are

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Speaker 2: obliged to do nothing in this case. So that's so

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Speaker 2: we did our best to get some money out of them.

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Speaker 2: Do you say that's what we came up.

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Speaker 1: Do you think there should be some kind of lord

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Speaker 1: change so that they're not they're obliged to do more

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Speaker 1: than zero.

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Speaker 2: Well, ultimately, I suppose that would come down to then

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Speaker 2: how much you will paid to pay for power? Because,

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Speaker 2: as it had explained to me, if we if we

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Speaker 2: may have to make everything more resilient, it'll cost more

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Speaker 2: and the power prices go up. So I think as

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Speaker 2: long as people that undo bolts unnecessarily, we should be fine.

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Speaker 1: Right Northland, I didn't realize this. Northland, you're actually a

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Speaker 1: net exporter of energy. You've got your geotherm on their kaikar,

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Speaker 1: You've got a big solar going in. Can you are

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Speaker 1: you confident in the lines the distribution to get it

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Speaker 1: down country to us.

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Speaker 2: This is a real opportunity. We actually we're not quite

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Speaker 2: in the explorer right there on the verge. We've got

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Speaker 2: the potential that if we upgrade the transmission lines from

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Speaker 2: Marsden Point North up to Kaikohe and kok Tire and

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Speaker 2: I was arguable we can then generate another six hundred

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Speaker 2: biger Watson concended energy, including increasing they them Natha and

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Speaker 2: that will make a real difference to Northland and also

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Speaker 2: supply energy from the North into Auckland, which will help

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Speaker 2: them because at the moment all their energy comes from

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Speaker 2: your south.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it wo'd be lovely to have some from you guys.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, you know, what's it to if

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Speaker 1: we get you charge charge away. But you know what

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Speaker 1: happens as soon as Auckland's involved and you know everything

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Speaker 1: will be done, it will be fixed and done quickly.

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Speaker 2: You know. Well, well you know that there might be

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Speaker 2: a word called leverage. We can be trying to use

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Speaker 2: that absolutely.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks very much for your time this morning. Great

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Speaker 1: to have you on. Grant McCallum, Northland MP. So there

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Speaker 1: you go, youre getting a million bucks, which is as

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Speaker 1: it says better than none.

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