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Speaker 1: Now listen. I can't help but think the Transpower report

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Speaker 1: into the Pilon falling Over and we'll talk about it

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Speaker 1: shortly is one of those reports that has to find

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Speaker 1: things to say because the real reason for the report

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Speaker 1: was obvious. Nevertheless, there are twenty six recommendations now to recap.

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Speaker 1: The company that Transpower hires to maintain the pilons hired

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Speaker 1: a couple of clowns and didn't train them. They undid

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Speaker 1: a lot of bolts, and the Pilon fell over. The

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Speaker 1: report suggests that ultimately is Transpower's fault. I don't see

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Speaker 1: how you hire a painter he paints your house the

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Speaker 1: wrong color. Your wife tells you you're an idiot for

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Speaker 1: hiring the painter. As long as Transpower had checked that

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Speaker 1: a Maxim was a proper company. What is it they're

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Speaker 1: supposed to be doing. Are they supposed to bet the

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Speaker 1: company every time they do any work? Do they run

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Speaker 1: through the CB of everyone who touches a bolt? Or

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Speaker 1: is that the contractor's job the way it's the contractor's

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Speaker 1: job for everyone you hire in your life to do

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Speaker 1: anything for you. Certainly, the issue raised in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: one when an engineer four Transpower told the maintenance issues

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Speaker 1: were a thing that is on Transpower. Now they were alerted,

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Speaker 1: and yet they did nothing. That I suspect goes in

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Speaker 1: some way to the fact that Transpower are a monopoly,

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Speaker 1: and monopolies tend to be a little bit lax around

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Speaker 1: these things. The report recommends Transpower improved processes for maintenance

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Speaker 1: work on base plates. What's that mean, I mean it's

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Speaker 1: water blasting something. Do you need to hire a rocket

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Speaker 1: scientist to unscrew some bolts and have a laminated sign

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Speaker 1: on every tower saying only undo one bolt at a time.

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Speaker 1: Surely this is getting all a little bit forensic and

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Speaker 1: smacks of a report author making stuff up basically for

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Speaker 1: the sake of it. The simple truth is the beginning,

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Speaker 1: the middle, and the end of it is a Maxim

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Speaker 1: are a fault. They are the ones that didn't do

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Speaker 1: the job. The original report told us all this. None

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Speaker 1: of this is complicated. They weren't building the Hadron collide.

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Speaker 1: They were cleaning a tower. A maxim hired fools, didn't

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Speaker 1: train them, and untrained fools make mistakes. A maxim should

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Speaker 1: be sacked. They should be sued or made to pay

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Speaker 1: for the damage. The report says anywhere between thirty seven

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Speaker 1: and eighty million dollars, and that should be that transpower

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Speaker 1: are not devoid of complete repet sponsibility, given pylons are

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Speaker 1: on them. But the reason the CEO doesn't clean the building,

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Speaker 1: do the correspondence, and make all the boxes is it's

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Speaker 1: not possible, it's not reasonable, and that's why you hire

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Speaker 1: people to do stuff you can't. At some point in

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Speaker 1: the hiring process, the level of responsibility transfers from the

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