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Jamie Mackay: The Country host on Shane Jones visiting 15 provincial centres to promote his $1.2 billion fund · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: And host of the Country Jamie McKay is with us
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  Speaker 2: this evening. He had Shane Jones on the show today. Jamie,
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  Speaker 2: how is he rolling out his PGF two point zero?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's what it is. He's only got one
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  Speaker 3: point two billion this time around, jack as Peaster, Yeah, peanuts.
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  Speaker 3: He had three billion to splash around last time under Cinda.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll see how he goes. And well, I guess
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  Speaker 3: on your show today you've gone from one great Northland MP,
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  Speaker 3: my old mate Grant mcnational to Shane Jones. So Marta,
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  Speaker 3: Shane the Prince of the provinces. He's off on a
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  Speaker 3: series of summits around the region, fifteen of them. He's
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  Speaker 3: got that one point two billion dollars to spend in
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  Speaker 3: the regions to improve productivity. He wants to grow and
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  Speaker 3: strengthen the economy. These summits are going to take place
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  Speaker 3: over the next six to eight months, and I think
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  Speaker 3: the first one is in Nelson on August the twelfth.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be really interesting to see. I
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  Speaker 2: mean it is. It has to be said, so much
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  Speaker 2: more focused than the first iteration of the PDF, which
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  Speaker 2: is not a high hurdle to clean. But yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be very interesting to see how that
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  Speaker 2: has rolled out. Now the primary sector is going to
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  Speaker 2: have to rely on new tools and technologies in order
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  Speaker 2: to lower it to missions if it is to hit
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  Speaker 2: targets outlined in the government's newly released draft emissions reduction plan.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, And as you alluded to, Jack Shane Jones
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  Speaker 3: was on the country today and he wasn't having a
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  Speaker 3: bar of decarbonization if it meant de industrialization. And here's
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  Speaker 3: what he had to say.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to be very careful that decarbonization doesn't become
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  Speaker 4: de industrialization. But these green hobbits are not going to
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  Speaker 4: be permitted by New Zealand. First New Zealand to undermine
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  Speaker 4: the existence of our industry. We have the ability to
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  Speaker 4: achieve net net climate change positive outcomes. This notion that
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  Speaker 4: you're cut down every chimney stack and that you have
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  Speaker 4: to close down industry to enjoy some green nirvana when India,
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  Speaker 4: when China are building coal fired power stations every day,
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  Speaker 4: in my view, least bear the falsehoods of that Green Party.
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  Speaker 4: But most importantly, I'm never going to worship at the
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  Speaker 4: altar of climate change gods.
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  Speaker 3: If you want God, go to church. So there you go, Jack,
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  Speaker 3: That's what Martua Shane had to say. And of course
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about the government's newly released draft emissions reduction
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  Speaker 3: Plan and that they reaffirmed when they released this their
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  Speaker 3: commitment to price emissions in agricultural for the agricultural sector,
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  Speaker 3: should I say from twenty thirty, So there's no free
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  Speaker 3: lunch there beyond twenty thirty. Some of the tools shed
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  Speaker 3: and this is one of the issues that farmers had Jack.
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  Speaker 3: They're saying, we want to do it, we want to
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  Speaker 3: reduce our emissions, but give us some tools to do it,
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  Speaker 3: and things like low methane, sheep genetics, vaccines, you name it.
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  Speaker 3: All these things that are coming on to the market.
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  Speaker 3: They're expecting some of these new tools may be available
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  Speaker 3: to New Zealand pasture based farmers from twenty seven twenty
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  Speaker 3: eight and the other one. And this is Shane's solution.
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  Speaker 3: He would just keep planting trees un till he got
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  Speaker 3: to a carbon neutral sort of situation. The government's keen
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  Speaker 3: to partner with the private sector to plant trees. This
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  Speaker 3: includes native forestation on crown Land. Wonderful idea, but the
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  Speaker 3: trouble with native forest jack for anyone who's tried to
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  Speaker 3: establish them. They're slow. They take a lot of tender
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  Speaker 3: love and care as opposed to a dirty older or
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't say a dirty old an exotic pine tree. You
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  Speaker 3: can plunk them in the ground and away they go.
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  Speaker 3: It's instant gratification. Natives aren't that easy.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're certainly not. Hey, thanks, Jamie, appreciate it as ever.
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  Speaker 2: That is Jamie McKay, who is the host of the Country.
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