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Ryan Bridge: Energy Crisis - Where are Labour in all of this? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of decent, hardworking Kiwi provincial union jobs. Yes, union
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  Speaker 1: jobs are hanging in the balance today. Electricity spot price
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  Speaker 1: is peaking at one thousand dollars per megawatt hour. In
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks. Power companies they're basically canceling
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  Speaker 1: deals for Kiwis to heat their homes this winter, and
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  Speaker 1: businesses literally shuttering operations, rationing power producing less. Think of
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  Speaker 1: the ports that will be affected by that from provincial
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand. Think of the competitive advantage that we are losing.
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  Speaker 1: What's the problem Not enough sun, not enough rain, not
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  Speaker 1: enough wind for our renewable energy sources. Plus we have
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  Speaker 1: a gas shortage. This problem will continue in part because
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  Speaker 1: labour canceled the oil and gas exploration into the future.
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  Speaker 1: This is my generation's nuclear free moment. Now the rubber
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  Speaker 1: has hit the roads. The oil and gas investment and
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  Speaker 1: exploration has gone through the floor. Investment confidence has gone
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  Speaker 1: through the floor. Where are our leaders in this crisis? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Jacinda's in Chicago doing carmel Mania. We know that probably
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  Speaker 1: still dining out on the nuclear free moment. James Shaw
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  Speaker 1: Grant Robertson are both in very cushy one percent jobs
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  Speaker 1: probably not worrying about putting the heat pumps on. I
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  Speaker 1: would think Megan Woods was the Minister of Energy who
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  Speaker 1: signed off on the band and she is still in parliament.
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  Speaker 1: She is the shadow Energy minister, so where is she today.
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  Speaker 1: The government yesterday issued a challenge to labor to help
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  Speaker 1: dig our way out of this crisis at four pm
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  Speaker 1: major announcement. What has been the response. Not one tweet,
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  Speaker 1: not one Facebook post, not one press release from them.
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  Speaker 1: They were unavailable to our producers for an interview at
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  Speaker 1: five forty five am this morning. Don't know why. No
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  Speaker 1: statement even we asked them for a statement if they
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't appear on the program. No statement either, folks. This
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  Speaker 1: is spray and walk away Polyty. It's a classic case
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  Speaker 1: and it looks a little bit now that they're not
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  Speaker 1: talking like it's cowering in a crisis too. And they
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  Speaker 1: were warned. MB told them a ban would cost one
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  Speaker 1: point two to two twenty three billion dollars in lost royalties.
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  Speaker 1: They told them that Method X would up and leave
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  Speaker 1: if this went ahead. She disagreed, she sprayed and then
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  Speaker 1: she walked away. Hipkins also not available for our interview
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  Speaker 1: this morning. He has tweeted, I'll have more on that later,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm sorry. If you've got the energy and resources
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  Speaker 1: to boot the sector up, shipe Creek at least have
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  Speaker 1: the decency to front up. For more from News Talks dB,
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