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Speaker 1: Now the swing and miss I'm afraid to tell you

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Speaker 1: contact ad as an energy as in the power company

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Speaker 1: wanted to build a wind farm in Southland. They've been

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Speaker 1: turned down. Are they not the first? They will not

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Speaker 1: be the last. Close to three hundred million dollars and

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Speaker 1: hundreds of jobs are now not going to happen. Also,

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Speaker 1: the need to build fifteen gigawatts of additional capacity in

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Speaker 1: the next twenty five years will not be happening either.

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Speaker 1: So far we've built three gigawatts. We're entering what's actually

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Speaker 1: less than three. We're entering yet another winter where it's

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Speaker 1: touch and go on power supply. The minister's been busy

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Speaker 1: whacking his finger at the gent tailor's. The Climate campaign

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Speaker 1: has bark on about the role of renewables. We continue

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Speaker 1: to import record amounts of coal to cover the gap.

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Speaker 1: We've cut a deal to keep Huntly going ever longer

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Speaker 1: because the renewable dream is getting further and further away.

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Speaker 1: Renewables may or may not be the answer to our

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Speaker 1: problem at all. The simple truth about water, sun and

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Speaker 1: wind is there beyond our control. Coal and nuclear isn't.

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Speaker 1: But we seem to insist renewables are what we want

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Speaker 1: to do and yet we don't do it. That is

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Speaker 1: nimbiism as far as I can work out, it's going

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Speaker 1: to kill us. We seem happy to be shocked every

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Speaker 1: year at the coal pile. We seem to be happy

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Speaker 1: to be unhappy the idea we don't have enough power

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Speaker 1: to get us through winter. The industry tells us they're

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Speaker 1: investing in wind and solar, but are they? How many

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Speaker 1: get turned down versus how many actually get the go ahead?

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Speaker 1: Are we actually progressing or taking a step forward and

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Speaker 1: then a step back? Here's your ultimate irony. There's been

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Speaker 1: a lot said about this government's fast track law. Right

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Speaker 1: their fast track law is actually just an extension or

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Speaker 1: an amendment of the old fast track law which Labour

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Speaker 1: produced during COVID. Under that fast track law, this particular

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Speaker 1: wind project that I talk of got turned down. So

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Speaker 1: is a no fast track or no track. He question,

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Speaker 1: if you can't get a wind farm through under fast track,

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Speaker 1: are we actually into solving issues or not? For more

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Speaker 1: from the mic asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks

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