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Grant McCallum: Northland MP on the class action lawsuit against Transpower for the 2024 power outage · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: The Northern Pylon fiasco is heading to court. Remember last
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  Speaker 1: June you had the workers removing the bolts, the pylon
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  Speaker 1: falls over and region goes dark for days. Twenty thousand
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  Speaker 1: businesses hit and now they're taking Transpowder court to get
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  Speaker 1: their money back. Thank you very much. Grant McCallum is
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  Speaker 1: MP for North and joining me now, Hey Grant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good morning. Right.
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  Speaker 1: What was the damage?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they've estimate it anywhere between sixteen eighty million dollars
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  Speaker 2: losses across across the region. So that will be ultimately
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  Speaker 2: have to be proven by people if it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be if the claim is going to be successful.
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  Speaker 1: You're supporting this.
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  Speaker 2: I encouraged anyone who wants fields. They've been hard done
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  Speaker 2: by the explore all avenues and some local businesses have
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  Speaker 2: and I think and all powers them because there were
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  Speaker 2: definitely losses across the North and now the question is
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  Speaker 2: whether they're legally stacks up and they get something out
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  Speaker 2: of it.
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  Speaker 1: It does it? Well, what's your have you have they had,
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  Speaker 1: they've obviously got a legal opinion on that they think
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  Speaker 1: it does.
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  Speaker 2: It's not my place to get from the court process,
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  Speaker 2: but let's just see where it lands. But we all
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  Speaker 2: know what happened, and the reports are showing what happened,
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  Speaker 2: which to this day is still bigg as belief. But
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  Speaker 2: so yes, there's a legal process and let's follow it through.
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  Speaker 1: Has there been any ongoing effects, like obviously there was
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  Speaker 1: the few days where they were down, But did it
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  Speaker 1: cause it? Is it still causing problems?
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  Speaker 2: Not directly, but I know it put a lot of
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  Speaker 2: stress on one or two businesses I know up north.
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  Speaker 2: The loss of power for a big business like J
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  Speaker 2: and L the mill in Ti Tire, which is out
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  Speaker 2: of they they didn't compare come for four or five
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  Speaker 2: days was significant and that's a business that, like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of mills, are struggling, so that was not helpful
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  Speaker 2: to them. So yeah, the effect has been lingering, you
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  Speaker 2: might say, But yeah, I know there've been a number
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  Speaker 2: of business owners who have been quite annoyed with the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing and the fact that Transpower and their of
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  Speaker 2: you haven't and their of you haven't compensated them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Grandel's having a look at your electric
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  Speaker 1: numbers from last election. Are you worried about next year?
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  Speaker 2: I'm working hard to get around the Electra mate and
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  Speaker 2: do my best. The electors will make their mind up.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always worried about what electors want, and I get
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  Speaker 2: out there and listen to them. But I guess I
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  Speaker 2: drove up to ky Tyre from home. That's three hours
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  Speaker 2: each way to attend the memorial service an amazing man
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  Speaker 2: from Kai tire monty night. It was a really really
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  Speaker 2: amazing services. It was a real leader and all. So
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  Speaker 2: it's the sort of thing you do.
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  Speaker 1: You granted you one of these backbenchers worried about your boss.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, he's doing a tough job. Really, well,
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  Speaker 2: come on, you're I knew you'd go here in this conversation.
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  Speaker 2: You guys can't help yourselves.
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  Speaker 1: We can't, so you said, so, excellent job. You would
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  Speaker 1: never roll.
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  Speaker 2: Them, No, of course not. He will need us into
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  Speaker 2: the and the election. He will election.
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  Speaker 1: Good to talk Grant mcclor People North For more from
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