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G Lane

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

If you look to the right there, you can see in all its glory the Huntly Power Station.

The Agenda
"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

Is that a terracotta?

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

It's quite a nice color.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

It's commissioned between 1973 and 1985, so it's a bit old.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

Stevenson's ute in the back there.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

We'll just give him a wave.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

There you go.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

Hey, how you going?

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

You're in the Hilux as well.

The Agenda
"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

So that, yeah, you don't often see a couple of dudes in a car with headsets on doing a podcast.

The Agenda
"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

But the towering chimneys are visible from kilometres away.

The Agenda
"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

And the station became the focal point for early environmental debates in New Zealand, Mashie, because it uses the river quite a lot to cool.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

Yep.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

And also heavily coal as well.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

So it was quite controversial in terms of its emissions.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

Okay.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

However...

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

It isn't flashy, but it's foundational, Mashie, because when we don't have any rain.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

That's how they talk about me.

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"Great Routes Of NZ: Rainbows End To The OutBack"

If we don't have any foundational.