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Speaker 1: Heather do to see Allen and jeez, that old Allen

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Speaker 1: g terminal idea didn't didn't last very long, did it?

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Speaker 1: Seven weeks? That's it, from the minute they announced it

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Speaker 1: on the ninth of February to the first knife they

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Speaker 1: stuck in it today, seven weeks to the day. Now,

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Speaker 1: before you come at me arguing that the LNG terminal

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Speaker 1: hasn't been killed, yes it has. It is dead. The

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Speaker 1: Herald report this morning that multiple ministers are privately admitting

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Speaker 1: that they may have to kill the project did not

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Speaker 1: happen by accident. This is one oh one of how

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Speaker 1: you start killing off an idea in politics. You start slowly,

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Speaker 1: and by the time you get around to actually killing it,

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Speaker 1: in about let's say three months, two or three months,

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Speaker 1: people have got around, got used to that idea. And

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Speaker 1: then the morning, the fact that the Prime Minister was

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Speaker 1: on this morning talking to Mike and not sounding super enthusiastic,

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Speaker 1: I think should have backed up that suspicion. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you could say, if you could pick me up on

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Speaker 1: anything here, it's that it's not one hundred percent dead.

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Speaker 1: There's always a chance something changes and it slips through.

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Speaker 1: But I say the chances of death. I'd put that

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Speaker 1: at around about eighty to ninety percent today. And it's

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Speaker 1: not for the reasons by the way that we're being told,

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Speaker 1: which are that gas prices are too high because of

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Speaker 1: Operation Epic Fury. We already knew seven weeks ago that

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Speaker 1: an LNG terminal would be at the mercy of international

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Speaker 1: gas prices. That was one of the main warnings about

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Speaker 1: the thing. Currently, we paid domestic gas prices. A minute

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Speaker 1: you start importing it, you're paying international prices. The real

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Speaker 1: reason that this is being cut is because it was

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Speaker 1: never a good idea, and I think they had to

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Speaker 1: run it out to really realize how many people think

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Speaker 1: it's a bad idea. One billion dollars for what is

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Speaker 1: essentially a short term fix is a hell of a

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Speaker 1: lot of money, and that's assuming by the way that

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Speaker 1: it is built to the quote, it might cost a

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Speaker 1: lot more than a billion dollars if we know what

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Speaker 1: infrastructure projects in this country do. And it is a

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Speaker 1: short term fix because unless we suddenly strike a massive

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Speaker 1: gas find in the next few months, this country is

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Speaker 1: going to have to wean itself off gas. You are

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Speaker 1: going to have to stop using gas. You're going to

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Speaker 1: have to start using something else. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: it is, but probably electricity in your house, and industrial

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Speaker 1: and commercial use something else altogether. Storing gas in a

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Speaker 1: terminal was only ever going to be for that transition

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Speaker 1: while we wind ourselves off. That's a lot of money

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Speaker 1: to pay for transition, plus forcing us to pay for

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Speaker 1: it with an LNG levy was political toxin in a

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Speaker 1: cost of living crisis. So it's double political toxin and

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Speaker 1: a cost of living crisis that just got supercharged by

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Speaker 1: a war in Iran. So consider this one, I would

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Speaker 1: say already dead because it was never a good idea.

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