I'm personally not sure how anyone could be "relaxed" about thousands (I estimate indirect and direct impacts of about 4,000 jobs) gradually being lost over a few years seemingly with nothing down south to replace such a hit... The company tried to work with government several months back to put together a "business plan" and the Government were seemingly fairly unwilling to engage or even look into anything, so I doubt this incompetent bunch running the country will do anything now - can hardly say Rio didn't warn them! I also think this is alot deeper than just power prices. This thing has been around 50 years, and will be gone within 2... alot of high paying jobs have been created through it, alot more than immediate numbers (2,600) may suggest (almost too hard to come up with anything but an estimate). Jacinda said this is a "jobs jobs jobs" budget, but intention isn't reality... I look forward to the regional development minister commenting on this... there really is no positive way to spin this. Lets hope consumers get lower power prices, but I doubt this will actually happen.