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Have you ever been to a fish disco? It
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would cost you about 700 million quid if
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you want to see what it's like. I'm
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looking at the report into some of the
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absurd planning measures holding back or
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adding costs to infrastructure projects
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in this country. An extraordinary report
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produced yesterday. More than£700
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million pounds was spent on fish
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protection measures at Hinckley Point
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nuclear power station in Somerset that
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will save I'm reading here just under
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one salmon uh and about a quarter of a
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sea trout per year. You heard that
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right. This is an extraordinary thing.
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They call it the fish disco. It's meant
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to deter fish from coming anywhere near
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this infrastructure. Why do we do this
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to ourselves as a country and then
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complain that we have no growth and we
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can't get things built? There's a lot
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more examples in here. There's examples
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of the offshore wind farm in the North
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Sea where Natural England, God bless
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them, said that um there are some gilots
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breeding about a 100 kilometers away
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that might fly into that area in search
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of food. Experts said that's unlikely.
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Nevertheless, it added about 170 million
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pounds uh through predator control and
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bird hotel measures um onto that
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project. We have become a country of
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bird hotels, fish discos, 20 mph zones,
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breakfast clubs, motability schemes, and
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we worry and complain about not having
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enough growth. Uh anyway, one month till
