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Speaker 1: So in new reports is that we can import liquefied

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Speaker 1: natural gas into the country. It is possible, but it

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Speaker 1: is expensive and we would only use it occasionally. The

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Speaker 1: report's been commissioned by our four main power companies. Paul

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Speaker 1: Goodeve is the Claris chief executive, the gas company involved

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Speaker 1: in with us.

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Speaker 2: Now morning, Paul, Lorena, Heather, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very well, thank you. So it will cost up

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Speaker 1: to a billion dollars. This is a pipe dream, then,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I think that we shouldn't get fixated on the costs.

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Speaker 2: I think the most important thing about allergy or any

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Speaker 2: energy form is not what a cost, is the value

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Speaker 2: that it brings. And what we saw last winter is

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Speaker 2: the cost of not having a fuel like this. And

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Speaker 2: that's what we want to think about, is not we

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Speaker 2: know that we can do it. Now, we've got to

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Speaker 2: work out whether it's actually worth doing it, and if

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Speaker 2: the focus needs to be on the value that it brings,

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Speaker 2: not necessarily the cost.

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Speaker 1: Well, well, I mean, I guess that's what I'm getting to, right.

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Speaker 1: Is it worth doing it if it costs up to

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Speaker 1: a billion dollars and we only, as you guys say,

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Speaker 1: use it occasionally.

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Speaker 2: I think that that is the next stage of work

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Speaker 2: that we need to undertake is to ascertain where it

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Speaker 2: fits in the scheme of music engenergy system. What we

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Speaker 2: did some work on was both a standard sized imputation terminal,

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Speaker 2: which like you said, is a very significant capital cost,

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Speaker 2: but we also looked at a smaller, maybe more New

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Speaker 2: Zealand appropriate sized project which would be able, which we

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Speaker 2: be able to do for probably a capital cost of

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Speaker 2: around two hundred million plus.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So which would you go for? Would you go

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Speaker 1: for the big one that costs a loss but the

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Speaker 1: gas is cheaper or the small one that costs less

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Speaker 1: but the gas is twenty five percent more.

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Speaker 2: Expensive And that's that is the issue that we need

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Speaker 2: to work through now, and so that is part of

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Speaker 2: the reason that we are issuing this report with our partners,

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Speaker 2: so that we can have a discussion about what the

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Speaker 2: best best solution for a new.

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Speaker 1: Gene you could import al and g Paul, would you.

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Speaker 2: I certainly think it's part of the energy mix that

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Speaker 2: we need to fuel our economy going forward. So we

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Speaker 2: are we are advocates of having a range of fuel

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Speaker 2: twenties zone the energy system, and I think Gullanty is

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Speaker 2: part of that next all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Thanks Paul Paul good Eve, Clari's chief executive.

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