Heather Duplessy-Allen

It's going to cost billions.

Diesel is not expensive.

We've already got the storage tanks up north at Marsden Point.

Diesel, though, is more expensive to burn in the long run than gases, but it actually works out cheaper to do the diesel if you're just doing it through to 2035 as a backup.

So if you burn it through to then, diesel costs us apparently an estimated $3 billion.

LNG costs us $3.5 billion.

Now, what makes this more interesting?

than just the fact that this argument is even being proffered, right, is who it's coming from.

It's coming from rewiring Aotearoa, which is the lobby group, who are all about electrifying New Zealand and building the solar panels, all the climate-friendly stuff.

Now they're telling us to burn diesel.

If you think gas is bad for the climate, try diesel.

14 past 7.

Comedian Chris Parker's just announced a new tour.

He's going to be in with us for a bit of a chat after 8 o'clock.

It's 16 past 7.

Now, the government's announced money to encourage youth at risk of going down a life of crime to instead choose sport.

$8 million is going to go into community projects.

The first wave of the funding has been released.

Blue Light Ventures gets some.

Brendan Compton is the CEO.