October 2, 2024 • 6 mins
The Prince of the Provinces, Matua Shane, is on the warpath on the West Coast against Greenpeace and dim-witted creatures who dare stand in his way, and in the way of progress! He also has his say on the "mood of the boardroom" survey, the Dunedin hospital and we find out the cowboy origins of his name. But does that make him a cowboy?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So on yesterday's show, I got a text and from
Nick the Rockwasher, from Hoker Tecker who said, Hi, Jamie,
We've had a visit on the gold mine I work
on today and hok Atecker from our honorary coaster, mister
Shane Jones. And that's where we find him today, still
in Hoka Tecker about to make his way to Ross.
It looks like Shane Jones. You've got some fans on
(00:22):
the coast, but not so many in Wellington, especially in Greenpeace.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah. Sadly the Greenpeace and their fellow travelers thought that
they would use megaphones and call me an eco terrorist
and others foolish and juvenile terms. But look, they're not
going to shut me up or regional New Zealand on
the matters of mining and related industries. I'm the people's champion,
and these protesters are sticking up for a tiny elite
(00:47):
group who think that we should save the climate and
the planet first before we save our country and our economy.
They're never going to get me to change my views.
So that's why I'm on the coast on my way
to the end. You're mining shindig here on the coast.
They're very confident we're going to change the law fast
tracks not very far away, and we've relegitimized the existence
(01:09):
both of the coal mine industry and the gold industry.
We know coal is going to be eventually replaced over time,
but none of the schoolishness that we're seeing in England
where they're closing down coal power stations but then importing
all their energy from the European Union. We don't have
the option to import keep from either the Chathams or Tasmania.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Mind Joe, it's a sin, that's a crime that we
have been importing coal from Indonesia.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, there in lies the tragedy. We've got coal literally
under my feet as I wander around the coast. We've
got coal within spitting distance from the Huntly power station.
But of course we've had various regimes who have demonized
the coal industry. We can actually dig it up, we
can use it as a contingency fuel until such time
we make further progress in the transition. And a lot
(01:57):
of the coal exports are sorely new for steel, and
the last time I checked, Western civilization was built on
concrete and steel.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
If I was a batter skinker, Alizard or a blind frog,
I'd probably be reasonably worried about my future.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
No, I would practice the climate change rhetoric, and I
would begin to relocate to a place far less hazardous.
The country's inordinately expensive and the lucky and reality mate,
these species have been weaponized, catastrophized. I'm lot of the
business of getting ready of every critter. But at the
same time, we're not going to deify them. We're not
(02:34):
going to turn them into biblical creatures. While ordinary Kiwis
are going by the way because they can't pay the
bills or they can't find a decent job.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Seems like you're a biblical creature on the West Coast.
Look your Crown Mineral's Amendment Bill. What's that all about?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh too, But to it, we're simplifying some of the
rules around gold mining, and we're getting rid of getting
rid of the cinder Adern's band when she saw too
close down the oil and gas industry and twenty and
eighteen worst decision I've ever been involved in. As politicians.
It's a form of penance for me. We're reversing that
band and we're putting up in neon lights to the
(03:09):
rest of the world. We're open for business. Obviously, it'll
take time before the large explorers or even the domestic
ones come forward and expand the size of the gas
fields and extract more gas. We've got an option of
bringing it into the country, but why not use our
own indigenous resources before we worsen our current account deficit
(03:30):
by having to expand our impulse when we have the
ability to boost our resilience by using our own resources.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, okay, you're very popular on the coast. You're going
to be in Dunedin tomorrow. Are you going to sweep
in and build a hospital overnight? That might get you
into the top ten on the Mood of the Boardroom survey.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Long since given up bothering about what's in the mood
of the boardroom. The boardroom represents the people that are
beggaring the industry. In terms of the power industry, I
mean they're sitting in the parlor counting all the money
while exporters are finding it difficult to survive. Companies are
literally closing down and garden variety qwies are considering packing
(04:10):
up in droves because the power companies can't do their
job properly and aren't delivering to New Zealand a secure
and affordable level of energy. No, Dunedin's going to get
a hospital. There was never any suggestion there's going to
be no hospital. The reality, however, is that we're all
living within a set of straightened circumstances and my friend
mister Bishop went down there just to lay out the
(04:32):
full parameters of what these projects cost in a perfect
world and what we can afford. I think it's just
a bit of a bet up. And naturally there are
people in and around Dunedin associated with the university and
other sectors who don't like their government, and I think
it was an opportunity for them to take a cheap shot. Well,
I'll be in Dunedin and they'll find them much was
(04:53):
not one to cow.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So are we going to have sort of like a
gunfight at the ok Corral or in our case the Octagon,
You squaring off against Grant Robertson. I take it that's
who the dig was against.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Look, Granting the team from Labor. They had every opportunity
to deal to this hospital issue. There's a great debate
as to whether it's at the right place. Should the
chocolate factory have been pulled down? But Sadly those issues
are in the past. Down We've got to create an
institution that meets not only local needs but as affordable
across the entire nation.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I was named after a cowboy, and the name of
the cowboy was Shane. At the end of that movie
acted was acted out through Allan Ladd. The final line
is Shane, Shane, come back. And that's what I want
to hear.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, they love you on the coast. Maybe that's because
you are a bit of a cowboy. Now, just on
that mood of the boardroom survey Stanford one, Simon Brown
two Willis three Bishop you make bishop for Collins five
Lux and six Winston seven. No sign of Shane Jones,
I reckon when they do your report card at the
end of the year, they say, must try harder with greenpeace.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
While the reality, mate is that's not the territory that
I'm seeking to harvest results from the boardroom. My territory
is out on the provinces, in the regions, and a
lot of the businesses out there are modest sized entrepreneurial characters,
i e. The mining industry, IE, the aquaculture industry, the
(06:20):
fishing industry, and these regional businesses. They're the ones in
twenty twenty six that will have a lot to say
as to who's got power in the next three years
of our government. And I'm totally disinterested in sucking up
to anyone in the corporate boardroom.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And that's why they call you the Prince of the
Provinces Martoa, Shane Jones, Thanks as always for your time
on the country.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
See it buddy. Bye.
So on yesterday's show, I got a text and from
Nick the Rockwasher, from Hoker Tecker who said, Hi, Jamie,
We've had a visit on the gold mine I work
on today and hok Atecker from our honorary coaster, mister
Shane Jones. And that's where we find him today, still
in Hoka Tecker about to make his way to Ross.
It looks like Shane Jones. You've got some fans on
(00:22):
the coast, but not so many in Wellington, especially in Greenpeace.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah. Sadly the Greenpeace and their fellow travelers thought that
they would use megaphones and call me an eco terrorist
and others foolish and juvenile terms. But look, they're not
going to shut me up or regional New Zealand on
the matters of mining and related industries. I'm the people's champion,
and these protesters are sticking up for a tiny elite
(00:47):
group who think that we should save the climate and
the planet first before we save our country and our economy.
They're never going to get me to change my views.
So that's why I'm on the coast on my way
to the end. You're mining shindig here on the coast.
They're very confident we're going to change the law fast
tracks not very far away, and we've relegitimized the existence
(01:09):
both of the coal mine industry and the gold industry.
We know coal is going to be eventually replaced over time,
but none of the schoolishness that we're seeing in England
where they're closing down coal power stations but then importing
all their energy from the European Union. We don't have
the option to import keep from either the Chathams or Tasmania.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Mind Joe, it's a sin, that's a crime that we
have been importing coal from Indonesia.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Well, there in lies the tragedy. We've got coal literally
under my feet as I wander around the coast. We've
got coal within spitting distance from the Huntly power station.
But of course we've had various regimes who have demonized
the coal industry. We can actually dig it up, we
can use it as a contingency fuel until such time
we make further progress in the transition. And a lot
(01:57):
of the coal exports are sorely new for steel, and
the last time I checked, Western civilization was built on
concrete and steel.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
If I was a batter skinker, Alizard or a blind frog,
I'd probably be reasonably worried about my future.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
No, I would practice the climate change rhetoric, and I
would begin to relocate to a place far less hazardous.
The country's inordinately expensive and the lucky and reality mate,
these species have been weaponized, catastrophized. I'm lot of the
business of getting ready of every critter. But at the
same time, we're not going to deify them. We're not
(02:34):
going to turn them into biblical creatures. While ordinary Kiwis
are going by the way because they can't pay the
bills or they can't find a decent job.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Seems like you're a biblical creature on the West Coast.
Look your Crown Mineral's Amendment Bill. What's that all about?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Oh too, But to it, we're simplifying some of the
rules around gold mining, and we're getting rid of getting
rid of the cinder Adern's band when she saw too
close down the oil and gas industry and twenty and
eighteen worst decision I've ever been involved in. As politicians.
It's a form of penance for me. We're reversing that
band and we're putting up in neon lights to the
(03:09):
rest of the world. We're open for business. Obviously, it'll
take time before the large explorers or even the domestic
ones come forward and expand the size of the gas
fields and extract more gas. We've got an option of
bringing it into the country, but why not use our
own indigenous resources before we worsen our current account deficit
(03:30):
by having to expand our impulse when we have the
ability to boost our resilience by using our own resources.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Well, okay, you're very popular on the coast. You're going
to be in Dunedin tomorrow. Are you going to sweep
in and build a hospital overnight? That might get you
into the top ten on the Mood of the Boardroom survey.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Long since given up bothering about what's in the mood
of the boardroom. The boardroom represents the people that are
beggaring the industry. In terms of the power industry, I
mean they're sitting in the parlor counting all the money
while exporters are finding it difficult to survive. Companies are
literally closing down and garden variety qwies are considering packing
(04:10):
up in droves because the power companies can't do their
job properly and aren't delivering to New Zealand a secure
and affordable level of energy. No, Dunedin's going to get
a hospital. There was never any suggestion there's going to
be no hospital. The reality, however, is that we're all
living within a set of straightened circumstances and my friend
mister Bishop went down there just to lay out the
(04:32):
full parameters of what these projects cost in a perfect
world and what we can afford. I think it's just
a bit of a bet up. And naturally there are
people in and around Dunedin associated with the university and
other sectors who don't like their government, and I think
it was an opportunity for them to take a cheap shot. Well,
I'll be in Dunedin and they'll find them much was
(04:53):
not one to cow.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
So are we going to have sort of like a
gunfight at the ok Corral or in our case the Octagon,
You squaring off against Grant Robertson. I take it that's
who the dig was against.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Look, Granting the team from Labor. They had every opportunity
to deal to this hospital issue. There's a great debate
as to whether it's at the right place. Should the
chocolate factory have been pulled down? But Sadly those issues
are in the past. Down We've got to create an
institution that meets not only local needs but as affordable
across the entire nation.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
No.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I was named after a cowboy, and the name of
the cowboy was Shane. At the end of that movie
acted was acted out through Allan Ladd. The final line
is Shane, Shane, come back. And that's what I want
to hear.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, they love you on the coast. Maybe that's because
you are a bit of a cowboy. Now, just on
that mood of the boardroom survey Stanford one, Simon Brown
two Willis three Bishop you make bishop for Collins five
Lux and six Winston seven. No sign of Shane Jones,
I reckon when they do your report card at the
end of the year, they say, must try harder with greenpeace.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
While the reality, mate is that's not the territory that
I'm seeking to harvest results from the boardroom. My territory
is out on the provinces, in the regions, and a
lot of the businesses out there are modest sized entrepreneurial characters,
i e. The mining industry, IE, the aquaculture industry, the
(06:20):
fishing industry, and these regional businesses. They're the ones in
twenty twenty six that will have a lot to say
as to who's got power in the next three years
of our government. And I'm totally disinterested in sucking up
to anyone in the corporate boardroom.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
And that's why they call you the Prince of the
Provinces Martoa, Shane Jones, Thanks as always for your time
on the country.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
See it buddy. Bye.
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