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Ryan Bridge: A little too much economic nimbyism going on · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: There's a form of economic nimbiism that's going on in
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  Speaker 1: this country. You've probably noticed it too. If we want
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  Speaker 1: to get ahead, surely we are all aware that there
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  Speaker 1: must be trade offs. There's no business, no growth, no
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  Speaker 1: economic miracle that comes about without a cost to someone somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it's intensive agriculture that can have an effect on
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  Speaker 1: the environment, whether it's water to run the data centers
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  Speaker 1: that power your smartphones. Every success costs you something. Generally,
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  Speaker 1: the trick is to be reasonable, take risks, mitigate them,
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  Speaker 1: or just be willing to wear the costs. The problem
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  Speaker 1: we have, I don't think is necessarily a lack of
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  Speaker 1: opportunities of wherewithal or enthusiasm, not even in many cases investment.
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  Speaker 1: I was just an Otargo, just recently beautiful place, stunning
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  Speaker 1: central Otago. There's a gold mine permit that's been issued there.
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  Speaker 1: You might have seen that in the news. Sam Neil
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  Speaker 1: was dead against the project when I was down there,
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  Speaker 1: as are many others. There's opposition, there's legal challenges, fair enough,
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  Speaker 1: you know they've got houses in the area, worried about
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  Speaker 1: trucks on the road then what it looks like. But
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  Speaker 1: it's also an area that would be serviced by this
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  Speaker 1: brand new hospital that Dunedin is getting. Half the town's
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  Speaker 1: buildings by the way, and Otaga wouldn't be there to
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  Speaker 1: begin with if its not for gold mining. So the
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  Speaker 1: permits issued. The rest is with fast track whatever. But
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  Speaker 1: how are you going to pay for that hospital? How
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  Speaker 1: are you going to pay for that hospital? Wanaka said
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  Speaker 1: no to a McDonald's in part due to concerns about
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  Speaker 1: healthy eating. Residents objected to a solar farm in part
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  Speaker 1: because of something called lunar reflection, that the moonlight might
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  Speaker 1: reflect off a solar panel like it would I don't
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  Speaker 1: know a lake or an ocean. I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 1: are we clutching its straws here or what. It's all
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  Speaker 1: well and good, but if we want stuff like new hospitals,
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  Speaker 1: highways and potholes fixed, you have to pay for them somehow.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a little too much economic nimbiaism going on
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  Speaker 1: at the moment I think for anyone to be serious
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  Speaker 1: complaining about the state of things. For more from Early
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