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Speaker 1: The ski season kicking off this weekend, and joining us

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Speaker 1: this morning is Paul Anderson. Paul's with NZ Ski, the

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Speaker 1: chief executive. Paul, Good morning, Paul. Can you hear me?

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Speaker 2: Hear me?

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Speaker 1: Oh? There we go, gotcha? So what's happening? How much

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Speaker 1: snow we got?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Look, we're looking really good down in Queenstown at

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Speaker 2: the Remarkables and Corny Peaks. We had a storm rolled

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Speaker 2: through late last week dropped about twenty to thirty centimeters

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Speaker 2: in our mountains. But more importantly, we've had a good

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Speaker 2: eight days solid of snowmaking and we've got some pretty

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Speaker 2: incredible snowmaking systems down here. So we've got up to

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Speaker 2: a meter of snow now on our main trails and

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Speaker 2: looking good for openly non Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic. And what's the situation like with all of the lifts?

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Speaker 1: Are they all working and good all that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: You're all ready to go from a business both side

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, We've had a busy summer getting everything ready

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Speaker 2: maintain and doing all our maintenance on our lists and

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Speaker 2: snowmaking systems and so forth. So we for day one

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Speaker 2: we're going to be running with top to bottom skiing,

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Speaker 2: not all lists will be open. That's usual for the

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Speaker 2: start of the season. But where we're going to have

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Speaker 2: a current peak, our current Peak Express, which means we

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Speaker 2: can get our skiing top to the bottom and get

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Speaker 2: all the way to the top of the mountain and

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Speaker 2: have some great scheme and similarly over its remarkables Kurvey

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Speaker 2: based Express and the Alta Chairlift are both going to

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Speaker 2: be running.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've got because there's the expansion happening right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, looks that's work we've been doing. We've got aspirations

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Speaker 2: to push the remarkables over to the next valley in

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Speaker 2: the coming years. We've got an application and the fast

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Speaker 2: tracked process and working hard to make sure we can

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Speaker 2: get all those studies done towards the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic, Paul Goodlick. How is the Is the fast track

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Speaker 1: process easy? Because it sounds like it should be easy

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Speaker 1: because it's got fast on the front of it, but as.

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Speaker 2: Actually it does well. Yeah. Look, the thing with the

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Speaker 2: part trek process is that brings all the hard yards

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Speaker 2: up front, so for us it means we have to

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Speaker 2: do a lot of studies rightfully. So once you've got

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Speaker 2: the information ready, we expect it to be really efficient

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Speaker 2: dealing with just that one agency, the Environmental Protection Agency.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe talk to me this time, Nick Chair

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Speaker 2: and we'll see how we're going. But I'm hopeful of it.

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Speaker 2: The signals from the government are that they really want

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Speaker 2: these projects to get off the ground.

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Speaker 1: Nice one, Paul. Great to have you on the show.

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Speaker 1: Paul Anderson, who's with us the indeed SKI chief executive.

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