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Speaker 1: So, as I told you yesterday, the Port of Todunger

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Speaker 1: has had another snag in its efforts to extend the

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Speaker 1: wolf at Sulfur Point. The port has been trying to

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Speaker 1: get this consented for years. It's had to fight objections

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Speaker 1: from local EWE and the Environment Court made an application

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Speaker 1: to be fast tracked, but then found out that the

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Speaker 1: application is on hold after a judicial review. Matt Cowley

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Speaker 1: is the CEO of Toting a business chamber and with

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Speaker 1: us Hey, Matt, Hey, Heather, I imagine this is hugely disappointing.

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Speaker 2: Well look, Leonard is a very cool, calm and collected guy,

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Speaker 2: as you would expect from many publicly listed company, but

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Speaker 2: for them to issue such a statement shows the level

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Speaker 2: of frustration out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because what are they frustrated by the fact that

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Speaker 1: they'd left a couple of words out of the application

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Speaker 1: and as a result of that the judicial review scrupped it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you wouldn't believe it.

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Speaker 3: They managed to get inside Shoesual two of the legislation.

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Speaker 3: They missed out a few words, so the High Court

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Speaker 3: judge obviously said, nah, it doesn't flit the scoll And

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Speaker 3: it's amazing how a little insignificant sand during has gotten

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Speaker 3: the way millions of dollars into our economy.

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Speaker 1: Does the E we have ediot like, is there any

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Speaker 1: merit to the ewe's objections here.

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Speaker 3: I don't know the ewe's case that much, but burn mitigation,

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Speaker 3: So even the Environment Court has said that the environmental

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Speaker 3: impacts are negligible long term, so the mitigation is kind

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Speaker 3: of what's holding it up, which of course can happen

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Speaker 3: while building is happening in underway. It's been five years

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Speaker 3: and there is a lot of frustration up there, particularly

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Speaker 3: missing cargo and shipping lines to the Americas, which is

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Speaker 3: obviously a big part of me and Brown's talk around

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Speaker 3: lining up with China's Belt and Road initiative.

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Speaker 1: What does it mean to get this, to get this

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Speaker 1: wolf done, the extension done. What would it mean for business?

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Speaker 3: It will obviously have a long term impact in terms

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Speaker 3: of greater capacity, because soon there's going to be bottlenecks,

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Speaker 3: and the last thing we need is supply chain bottlenecks,

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Speaker 3: you know, with ships eat being delayed or staying left

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Speaker 3: out at sea just waiting for their anchorage to come in.

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Speaker 3: And it's just that time delays which really impact and

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Speaker 3: having to tune ships away because the capacity is a

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Speaker 3: big no no, not what we need for this economy.

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Speaker 1: No, jeez, not at all. Now we are waiting. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: they were supposed to have the fast track hearing on

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Speaker 1: the first of September. Do we have yet any idea

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Speaker 1: when it will once they've managed to refile the paperwork

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Speaker 1: when we're looking at for that.

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Speaker 3: Ideally the government would amend the legislation immediately to clear

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Speaker 3: this up so they don't need to go through judicial review.

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Speaker 2: That's the ultimate involved.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, here's hoping, Matt. Thank you very much. Matt Cowley,

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