Press Release – Socialist Equality Group 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 …
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.
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
New Zealand: International mining experts release plan for full investigation of Pike River disaster
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.
The Socialist Equality Group’s (New Zealand) webinar included speeches by Bernie Monk, whose son was among the 29 men killed, and electrical engineer Richard Healey, who has extensively investigated the disaster.
Sunday, 18 April 2021, 4:06 pm
Families of most of the 29 men who died following a
series of explosions at the Pike River Coal mine in November
2010 are continuing to demand a thorough underground
investigation of the disaster, in opposition to the Labour
Party-Greens government’s attempt to shut it
down.
After more than a decade, no one has been held
responsible for the disaster, despite a royal commission in
2012 finding overwhelming evidence of unsafe and illegal
practices by the company, which put production and profit
ahead of workers’ safety. The police, state regulators,
the courts and successive governments have shielded those
responsible from accountability.