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Shane Jones: Resource minister attempts to attract mining companies, says he won't surrender to 'woke-ism' · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Resources Minister Shane Jones is on a mission to sell
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  Speaker 2: our minerals on the global stage. He's heading to Australia,
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  Speaker 2: then he's heading to the US. He's attending mining and
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  Speaker 2: geothermal conferences, hoping to push for growth change. Jones is
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  Speaker 2: with me this morning. Minister, good morning. Hey, what are
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  Speaker 2: you hoping to get out of this?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, obviously we've got to promote the fact that we've
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  Speaker 3: got a sense some endowments of minerals. They've been hidden
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  Speaker 3: for a long time as various governments have come to
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  Speaker 3: a preoccupation and thanks ridden denial of how important minerals
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  Speaker 3: can be to our growth.
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  Speaker 2: Isn't the problem though, You'll say I'm pro minerals, let's
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  Speaker 2: dig it up, and then investors might say, well, what
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  Speaker 2: about your opposition who could be in next year?
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  Speaker 3: The Yeah, the problem that and I've had this discussions
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  Speaker 3: with various other media. The problem that we've got. They said,
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  Speaker 3: if we don't have a strong voice, which I represent,
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  Speaker 3: and it's been absence since Helen Clark's time, then we
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  Speaker 3: all just surrender to the shullness and the wocism, and
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  Speaker 3: it's keeping us poorer. And I think what investors are
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  Speaker 3: warming to is that in New Zealand there is a clear,
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  Speaker 3: loud voice that's standing up and pushing back the tide
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  Speaker 3: of ignorance. And look, if we don't do this, New
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  Speaker 3: Zealand's going to be poorer for it.
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  Speaker 2: You've said you we've got strong growth in permit applications.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any numbers?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Sadly, the recent crappy economic figures said that the
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  Speaker 3: mineral sector wasn't doing well, but what it referred to
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  Speaker 3: actually was the decline in oil and gas. But there
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  Speaker 3: are hundreds of permits that have been processed. There's virtually
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  Speaker 3: no one who is in a waiting line being mucked around.
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  Speaker 3: I took over the role the end of twenty twenty Tree.
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  Speaker 3: I suggested to Envy that all decisions should be made
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  Speaker 3: by myself personally. They promised me that they could handle it,
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  Speaker 3: and they've lived up to their word. These are not
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  Speaker 3: environmental permits. These are permits that enable you to go prospecting, exploring.
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  Speaker 3: You still have to sort out a land use permit,
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  Speaker 3: and of course that's where we strike dock but TAMA
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  Speaker 3: is introducing economic criteria into the Conservation Act that should
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  Speaker 3: accelerate the pace at which the system allocates land use
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  Speaker 3: consents to the extent that the mining is on dock land.
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  Speaker 2: There's a Utah governor, Spencer Cox I was reading about
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  Speaker 2: last night, who's doing a trade mission here. Have you
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  Speaker 2: met with the governor? And apparently there's eighty of them here.
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  Speaker 2: They're quite interested in critical minerals.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, my officials are well and surely engaged with not
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  Speaker 3: only this particular delegation, but we've got in our mineral
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  Speaker 3: sands on the west coast down around Hokateka and Westport,
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  Speaker 3: all known as Monocyte and within that mineral are a
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  Speaker 3: host of other incredibly important rare earth minerals. And look,
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  Speaker 3: there's no shortage of interest coming out of the States
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  Speaker 3: and various other places. So behind the scenes, we've got
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  Speaker 3: our own little global races to who can work closest
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  Speaker 3: with the permit holders in New Zealand. But the reality
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  Speaker 3: is they've got to step up to the plate and
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  Speaker 3: spend their money because we're a free market, open liberal
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  Speaker 3: trading economy, and money walks sort of crap walks, and
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  Speaker 3: money Talks.
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  Speaker 2: Same James, Minister for Resources with US this morning.
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