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Speaker 1: So fast track's got a problem. And you may have

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Speaker 1: noticed this, it's not fast enough. Eight months in only

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Speaker 1: wait for it, two projects have been approved, not even started,

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Speaker 1: just approved. The mining in Tartanaki is still with the

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Speaker 1: C word consultation aka delayed, and word is that every

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Speaker 1: man and his dog is lining up to have their say,

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Speaker 1: including Mount Tartanaki. Literally quite how you ask a mountain

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Speaker 1: it's thoughts and feelings is beyond me. But are we

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Speaker 1: even surprised about this at this point? Shane Zones' is

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Speaker 1: mythed he says. The EPA, which is looking into all

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Speaker 1: of this stuff, has apparently hired a former forest and

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Speaker 1: bird lawyer to do that. Good luck everybody, all this

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Speaker 1: while we got eight hundred million bucks worth of minerals

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Speaker 1: just sitting there under the ocean. Now, all of this

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Speaker 1: could have been avoided if the government didn't cave to

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Speaker 1: the media and the legal scholars and the green mafia

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Speaker 1: and just give the politicians all the power in the

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Speaker 1: world to override whatever they want. So the delays and

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Speaker 1: the consultation are actually by design. And in Auckland you've

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Speaker 1: got Eden Park. Eden Park they tell us, is choking

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Speaker 1: under regulation. So why not use your new RMA superpowers

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Speaker 1: to unshackle it. I ask, well, you can't. Why you

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Speaker 1: have to consult first? Why because again the government specifically

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Speaker 1: designed the r law changed this way so that they

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Speaker 1: would have to the windmills they want to put it

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Speaker 1: in South Tartanaki. One local HAPU is taking their opposition

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Speaker 1: to this to the United Nations. You can see the

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Speaker 1: problem here, can't you. This country is its own worst enemy.

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Speaker 1: We bitch and moan about the GDP number last week,

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Speaker 1: we freak out about the manufacturing jobs disappearing, and rightly so.

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Speaker 1: But as soon as it's time to do something about it,

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Speaker 1: to create something new and industry or a mine, we

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Speaker 1: oppose it. We slow it down, we delay. So either

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Speaker 1: we accept that you can't have everything for nothing, and

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Speaker 1: that creating new jobs and growth will cost us something,

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Speaker 1: but it's worth it, or we accept that actually we're

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Speaker 1: poor and happy to stay that way. For more from

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