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Speaker 1: A not unfair question to ask as we return to

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Speaker 1: the power crisis of twenty twenty four, is are we

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Speaker 1: being told the full story? T WYVE at the third time,

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Speaker 1: third time has been asked to reduce power Method X

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Speaker 1: is allegedly and throws of cutting another deal with the

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Speaker 1: government over gas. As you just heard, Winstone has already

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Speaker 1: announced they're closing. They're not alone. The Major Energy Users

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Speaker 1: Group this week is asking us, all of us to

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Speaker 1: use less power. So how bad is this? Who knows

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Speaker 1: how bad this is? Are they not telling us? See?

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Speaker 1: I read an article that involves one of the mill

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Speaker 1: workers right being laid off. He talks of the meeting

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Speaker 1: the other day where the boss was in tears. A

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Speaker 1: lot of people are in tears. This is a town

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Speaker 1: of one thousand people. Two hundred and thirty are losing

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Speaker 1: their jobs. People text me and talk of heitching. I mean, yes,

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Speaker 1: you canhitch. It's not an unfair point, but you can't

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Speaker 1: hitch forever. And a lot of the smaller players aren't

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Speaker 1: using enough power to hitch. A major point is not

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Speaker 1: the hero now, as Simeon was trying to point out

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Speaker 1: the fact, it's the fact it's not a one off

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Speaker 1: each and every winter, transpower tells us about cold mornings

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Speaker 1: and supply issues. This is at the same time that

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Speaker 1: whatever the power companies are investing in clearly doesn't cover

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Speaker 1: the gap and clearly doesn't take into account evs, ARTA

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Speaker 1: centers AI. If an aluminium smelter can't do what it

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Speaker 1: wants to do, and if a mill can't even open,

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Speaker 1: we aren't really forging ahead in a new tomorrow, are we?

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Speaker 1: With AI and data centers springing up all over the place?

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Speaker 1: Methodex is now a company that sells gas, not produces methane.

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Speaker 1: How many people are giving up? How much to scrape through?

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Speaker 1: And if we scrape through? What then? Apart from the

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Speaker 1: sigh of relief? What then? What's the plan? Is the

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Speaker 1: investment as it stands providing us with a future proof

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Speaker 1: level of power or not? Does anyone really know? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't blame the worker in the article, but he

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Speaker 1: asked why the government doesn't bail the mill out given

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Speaker 1: Mercury supply the power to the mill and the government

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Speaker 1: own a big steak in Mercury. See, when you're asking

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Speaker 1: questions like that, pretty much everything is broken. For more

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Speaker 1: from the mic asking breakfast listen live to news talks

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