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Ryan Bridge: A little too much economic nimbyism going on · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: There's a form of economic nimbiism that's going on in
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  Speaker 2: this country. You've probably noticed it too. If we want
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  Speaker 2: to get ahead, surely we are all aware that there
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  Speaker 2: must be trade offs. There's no business, no growth, no
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  Speaker 2: economic miracle that comes about without a cost to someone somewhere.
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  Speaker 2: Whether it's intensive agriculture that can have an effect on
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  Speaker 2: the environment, whether it's water to run the data centers
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  Speaker 2: that power your smartphones. Every success costs you something. Generally,
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  Speaker 2: the trick is to be reasonable, take risks, mitigate them,
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  Speaker 2: or just be willing to wear the costs. The problem
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  Speaker 2: we have, I don't think is necessarily a lack of
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  Speaker 2: opportunities of wherewithal or enthusiasm, not even in many cases investment.
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  Speaker 2: It's just an Otargo just recently beautiful place, stunning, central Otago.
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  Speaker 2: There's a gold mine permit that's been issued there. You
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  Speaker 2: might have said that in the news. Sam Neil was
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  Speaker 2: dead against the project when I was down there, as
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  Speaker 2: are many others. You know, there's opposition, there's legal challenges.
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  Speaker 2: Fair enough, you know they've got houses in the area,
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  Speaker 2: worried about trucks on the road, then what it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: But it's also an area that would be serviced by
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  Speaker 2: this brand new hospital that Dunedin is getting. Half the
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  Speaker 2: town's buildings by the way, and Otaga wouldn't be there
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  Speaker 2: to begin with if it's not for gold mining. So
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  Speaker 2: the permits issued the rest us with fast track whatever.
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  Speaker 2: But how are you going to pay for that hospital?
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  Speaker 2: How are you going to pay for that hospital? Wanaka
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  Speaker 2: said no to a McDonald's in part due to concerns
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  Speaker 2: about healthy eating. Residents objected to a solar farm in
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  Speaker 2: part because of something called lunar reflection, that the moonlight
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  Speaker 2: might reflect off a solar panel like it would I
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  Speaker 2: don't know a lake or an ocean. I mean, come on,
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  Speaker 2: are we clutching its straws here or what. It's all
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  Speaker 2: well and good, but if we want stuff like new hospitals,
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  Speaker 2: highways and potholes fixed, you have to pay for them somehow.
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  Speaker 2: And there's a little too much economic nimbiism going on
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  Speaker 2: at the moment, I think for anyone to be seriously
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  Speaker 2: complaining about the state of things.
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