Families picket road to prevent the sealing of New Zealand’s Pike River mine
This morning, family members of some of the 29 workers killed in the Pike River mine disaster, as well as their supporters, held a protest blocking the road to the mine site on the West Coast of New Zealand’s South Island.
Families and supporters picket on the road to Pike River mine (Photo by Kath Monk)
The action is part of the fight by 22 of the 29 families to stop the Labour Party-Greens government from permanently sealing the mine and preventing the forensic examination of evidence about what caused the November 2010 explosions.