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Speaker 1: This is the business How Sam Dickey wraps the year

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Speaker 1: on the markets for twenty twenty five. That's after six

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Speaker 1: thirty the sevening into Brady in the UK. Jamie McKay,

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Speaker 1: Host of the Country, joins us too. A big mining

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Speaker 1: project has gained fast track approval to expand operations and

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Speaker 1: Why He approval time for Why He North was cut

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Speaker 1: from an estimated weight for it five years to consent

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Speaker 1: to one hundred and twelve days. Hodaki District Me to

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Speaker 1: Toby Adams's with me tonight, Toby, good evening.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, How are you right? Good?

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Speaker 1: Think your shoes? That's quick, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: Got me answering the phone all the time it took

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Speaker 2: for them to get the content both Toby, Yeah, no, yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: that is that it took a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: process to get it to the fast track content. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: that is that is a quicker way of doing things

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Speaker 2: for sure.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that this means you will get pushed,

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Speaker 1: you know, more pushback than you would otherwise have gotten

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Speaker 1: to because the community hasn't had much of a say.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the community did get a little bit of

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Speaker 2: a you know, there was a short amount of time

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Speaker 2: that they could put some submission in, but council got

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Speaker 2: a little bit of time and we'd we'd you know,

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Speaker 2: we'd worked on it previously, so we have been working

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Speaker 2: with the company for a number of years. We kind

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Speaker 2: of knew the type of things that we needed to

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Speaker 2: put in there for a submission, and we've got a

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Speaker 2: lot of those things through. So we're quite comfortable that

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Speaker 2: the communities has been heard.

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Speaker 1: You've done the leg work?

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Speaker 2: What what are They're definitely done the leg work.

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Speaker 1: What are the benefits?

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of benefits for for the

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Speaker 2: workforce for sure. You know, it brings economic wealth into

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Speaker 2: the region. And there's a lot of people that say

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Speaker 2: that the gold profits go overseas, and that may well

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Speaker 2: be true, but there's a lot of employment locally within

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Speaker 2: the Hedaki region and further afield that really get that

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Speaker 2: benefit out of it. Good paying, well paying jobs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's they're five point two billion and additional gold

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Speaker 1: and silver exports, but that is the exports. Do you

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Speaker 1: know how many jobs are Do you have a number

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Speaker 1: of extra jobs for this particular.

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Speaker 2: Mind, Yeah, I mean I've been talking an extra three

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Speaker 2: hundred jobs, So that's a that's a that's a big employer,

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Speaker 2: so that just creates more families yet permanent jobs.

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Speaker 1: Great, what's not to like? What about the environment? Do

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Speaker 1: you know what is the worst case scenario with this

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Speaker 1: or is it kind of like it's why we already

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Speaker 1: do mining people are used to it, or are there

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Speaker 1: specific environmental potentially environmental flow on effects from this particular project.

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Speaker 2: There's always an environmental aspect to mining or any sort

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Speaker 2: of mineral distraction, whether it's a quarry, coal, dol silver,

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Speaker 2: whatever it is, is always going to be that environmental issue.

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Speaker 2: This is a company that we've worked with for a

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Speaker 2: number of years and I have to say that they

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Speaker 2: try as much as they can to be as environmentally

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Speaker 2: neutral as they possibly can. Obviously there's tailing steams, which

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Speaker 2: is the biggest concern that people have, but the manner

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Speaker 2: in which they construct them and look after them is

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Speaker 2: second to none. It's probably some of the best in

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Speaker 2: the world.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate your time, Toby. Thank you. Toby Adams, who's the

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Speaker 1: Hurdoki District mayor talking about the fat great news? Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean, unless you are Catherine Della Hunty, I don't

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Speaker 1: mean she's going to be stoked about this, but everyone

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Speaker 1: else I imagine, and why he will be pretty happy

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Speaker 1: with it.

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