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Speaker 1: Yet another mill is likely to close. This time it's

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Speaker 1: car to Hold Harvey's Eves Valley sawmill near Nelson. One

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Speaker 1: hundred and forty two jobs could be lost if this

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Speaker 1: does happen. Tasman mayor Tim King lives next door to

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Speaker 1: the mill and he's.

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Speaker 2: With us now, Hey Tim, Hey, how you go?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, Thank you Tim. It doesn't sound like

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Speaker 1: this time it is related to the price of energy.

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Speaker 1: It just sounds like the Cora mill is very efficient.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I mean this is just a pure business decision.

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Speaker 2: This is a very efficient saw mill. There's actually been

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Speaker 2: a lot invested in it in the last five years

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Speaker 2: to make it as efficient as possible. It's just that

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Speaker 2: Calrora was more efficient and they obviously want to source

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Speaker 2: all their sawn timber from a single location. So yep,

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Speaker 2: not due to energy prices or anything to do with

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Speaker 2: this mill itself. Just so happens there's one mill that's

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Speaker 2: more efficient than this one.

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Speaker 1: Which says to me then that it's probably a case

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Speaker 1: of you guys not being able to change their minds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, from the conversations I've had over the course of today,

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Speaker 2: that's absolutely the perception I've got there's no chance of

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Speaker 2: this decision changing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well tell me you know for your area, how

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Speaker 1: devastating is the loss of one hundred and forty two jobs.

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Speaker 2: It's very significant and it's so obviously the most significant

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Speaker 2: impact and most immediate is on those one hundred and

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Speaker 2: forty two people directly employed at Ease Valley, but there

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Speaker 2: is a wide range of other businesses that support these

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Speaker 2: Valley saw It's a big component of the forestry sector

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Speaker 2: in this region. So it's a very significant impact. So

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Speaker 2: if it does go.

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Speaker 1: Ahead, and it sounds like it's going to what happens

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Speaker 1: to the land next to you.

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Speaker 2: From what? Again? My understanding is it's going to be

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Speaker 2: retained in the ownership of Carter Holt Harvey. The mill

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Speaker 2: will be mothboard, the recently installed equipment is likely to

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Speaker 2: be disassembled and shipped to Carrel or another location, and

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Speaker 2: this land will ultimately the fate of it will be

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Speaker 2: decided by Cardhold Harvey at some point in time.

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Speaker 1: All right, Tim, thanks for talking to us. Appreciate at

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Speaker 1: Tim King Tasman.

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