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Speaker 1: Just go back to the oil and gas stuff that

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Speaker 1: starting to get a little nervous about whether we're ever

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Speaker 1: really going to be able to attract overseas investors back

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Speaker 1: into our oil and gas industry. When you think about it, right,

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Speaker 1: the world has known since October last year that New

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Speaker 1: Zealand was back open for business, because that is when

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Speaker 1: the coalition government won the election, and the coalition government

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Speaker 1: had made it very clear that when they got in

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Speaker 1: I think all three of the parties had made it

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Speaker 1: clear that they would reverse the oil and gas ban.

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Speaker 1: So since October the world new right. Things are going

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Speaker 1: to change in New Zealand. But from what I can tell,

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Speaker 1: no one from overseas is interested in coming to New

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Speaker 1: Zealand to do the work. And frankly, if no one's

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Speaker 1: registered an interest in nine months, I think we might

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Speaker 1: need to start getting realistic about this. It's probably over.

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Speaker 1: That ship has sailed. You can sort of tell also

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Speaker 1: by the language that Shane Jones is using that he

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Speaker 1: might know this too, because he's talking about all of

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Speaker 1: these efforts that he's making to try to make it

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Speaker 1: more appealing for investors to come back. It's talked about bonds.

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Speaker 1: Now he's talking about trying to give them really, really

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Speaker 1: long contracts. It's almost desperate stuff because I think that

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Speaker 1: he can already seeine months. No one's nibbling, and why

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Speaker 1: would they nibble. I mean Labour has already now on

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Speaker 1: multiple occasions, raised the prospect that they are open to

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Speaker 1: when they get back in nixing the projects all over again. Now,

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Speaker 1: investors around the world are going to read that right.

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Speaker 1: They're going to read that on one hand, the current

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Speaker 1: government is reversing the oil and gas band, but on

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Speaker 1: the other hand, the next government is going to just

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Speaker 1: put it back in place again. Who wants to put

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Speaker 1: billions of dollars of investment in and then have Rachel

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Speaker 1: Brooking from Labor or Michael Woods from Megan Woods from

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Speaker 1: Labour coming and ban your business all over again. I

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Speaker 1: mean what that means for us, like you know, in

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Speaker 1: the real world, let's think about that. That means for

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Speaker 1: us is that short of a miracle and short of

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Speaker 1: some overseas investor taking a punt on us, we are

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Speaker 1: probably going to have to make do with what we've got. Now,

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Speaker 1: that is not a good prospect because our gas is

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Speaker 1: running out faster than we thought it would. We are

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Speaker 1: facing lights out this winter because of a gas shortage.

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Speaker 1: We have been warned that. It seems to me, and

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say this because it's not great for

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Speaker 1: the environment, but it seems to me Huntley is going

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Speaker 1: to be a very busy girl burning all of that

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Speaker 1: coal for a very long time. For more from Hither

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