Sunday, 16 May 2021, 3:50 pm
On May 11, a group of international mining experts
released a 23-page Conceptual Development Plan to expand the
underground investigation of Pike River coal mine in New
Zealand.
The document is a major step forward in the
fight to uncover the truth about the mine disaster in
November 2010 that killed 29 men. It was prepared by the
Pike River Independent Technical Advisory Group, which
consists of highly-qualified mining experts, including
former chief mines inspector Tony Forster. They wrote the
plan for free on behalf of 23 of the families of 29
men.
It demolishes the claims made by the Labour
Party-led government that to go deeper into the mine to