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Small Business Resilience In Energy Change

1 items · 1 aliases · peaked week of 24 May 2026 · first seen 29 May 2026

A podcast discussion with Shane Jones, Associate Minister of Energy, examines the government's $1.2 billion gas transition loan scheme for small businesses, highlighting concerns about financial risk, bank lending priorities, and the moral tone of green energy advocacy while pled

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  • And uh I think it's fair to say this is the less risky approach. We can outsource the due diligence to the banks. Um the banks have worked with Treasury to the best of my knowledge. Um geothermal for a number, like there's a firm called ST. I think they make cardboard something in Kawedo, they can go to geothermal energy. Uh, there are some uh problem child uh children, for example, the Fucker Tiny Mill. Uh, I think there may be a need for some bespoke solutions. But you know, there's in the top ten users of gas is three thousand eight hundred, four thousand Kiwis employed there. Uh, the gas is dropping precipitously in another five years. We're down to fifty petajoules. We're continuing to look for gas with the two hundred million dollars that we've got on tap.
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