A long-delayed hydroelectric project in the Waitaha Valley on the West Coast receives fast-tracked consent, promising energy resilience, job creation, and emissions reductions after 20 years of setbacks and reconsideration.
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That requires us to put in place an energy strategy that makes sense and is coherent. We're not gonna do the mistake that the Labour Greens government did where you created $800 megawatt power prices and low and middle income working people lost their jobs. Unacceptable.
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