Nicola Willis
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1,507 appearances
29 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Nicola Willis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And two, creating massive taxpayer costs if you're having to bail out everyone who needs to pay costs under the ETS.
So, in fact, that sort of an intervention could have been far more expensive than the taxpayer.
If we were to do one intervention for one firm in the emissions trading scheme, that would bring into large question whether the ETS is actually a real mechanism anymore.
Because if everyone thinks that they just get into a conga line and say, right, we're looking for the exception now, then the market doesn't work anymore.
And so, look, there are real challenges.
Pricing emissions causes impacts on the economy, and we're going to have to grapple with those.
No question about it.
You've got two?
No, you put up a couple.
Yeah, you think of different ones.
So there's three in there in the mix, and we have a meeting at quarter to nine that decides who gets up.
Usually the first question, which would go to Chipie or Barbara Edpins or whoever's taking the lead, they'll get a couple more, and then the rest of the subs get divided out over the other people who are asking questions.
Is this making you nervous, Mark?
Oh, the democracy thing?
Why is the case made that that wasn't just as important to keep that food production happening in Hawke's Bay?
So I think there's an important question to weigh up.
OK, what about the Martin Malt...
Well, yeah, but then I actually think in reality you may well see those things happening outside of the RMA.
Ngāi Tahu Farming manages 100,000 hectares of farm and forestry in the South Island.
And so, you know, of course they're going to have to work with local government in terms of how that operates.
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