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Ryan Bridge: Looks like the LNG deal's dead in the water, for now
Energy is everything, but you can't have your cake and eat it too.
The LNG terminal is on ice 'till after the election. Shane Jones told Ryan Bridge Today as much last week.
The Taranaki project hasn't been green lit by Cabinet and there's no way it will be pre-election. There's also no way a contract of that sort would be signed by what is basically a caretaker government.
The Methanex closure buys time, but how much, we don't know.
The thing they said we need, the terminal, is now at the whims of the election and coalition talks.
Businesses and factories don't close just because of costs…
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