The <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> has received more statements from New Zealand, the UK, Australia, and Canada, demanding justice for the 29 men who died in the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster.
Pike River Coal Limited (NZE:PRC) (PINK:PKRRF) Chairman, John Dow, advises that New Zealand Oil & Gas Limited (NZE:NZO) has appointed a Receiver to the company at the request of the Board of Pike River Coal.Read Full Article▸
This update from Pike River Coal Limited (NZE:PRC) (PINK:PKRRF) addresses some information that the Company has already provided in interviews with reporters present in Greymouth at this time. It is provided for the purpose of bringing those matters together for more general release by the Company, including via the market release platforms of NZX and ASX.Read Full Article▸
They said the fan recovery would cost $8 million and take 12 weeks using standard mining techniques to get past a roof fall blocking the top of the tunnel. However, the Government has said while the Pike River Recovery Agency would review the plan, there was no blank chequebook.
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Dame Fiona Kidman and her husband Ian at the Pike River protest in 2016. The Pike River Recovery Agency is planning to seal the mine early next month to allow the site to be handed over to the Department of Conservation for inclusion in the Paparoa National Park. Some of the families have issued a statement saying they accept the Government’s position.
Statements of support from New Zealand, Australia and the US for a full investigation of the Pike River mine disaster
The World Socialist Web Site
is publishing statements of support for the Pike River Families Committee, representing 23 of the 29 families of the men who died in the 2010 Pike River coal mine disaster in New Zealand. The families are fighting to overturn the Labour Party-led government’s decision to end an underground forensic investigation of the mine. The government aims to prevent the recovery and examination of evidence that could be used in criminal prosecutions of those responsible for the disaster.
The lessons of the 1994 Moura mine disaster in Australia
Terry Cook, a long-standing member of the Socialist Equality Party (Australia) delivered this speech at the webinar “
.” The webinar was hosted by the Socialist Equality Group (New Zealand) to discuss the causes of the 2010 Pike River disaster and the efforts by successive New Zealand governments, abetted by the trade unions and the entire political establishment, to protect the corporate criminals responsible.
Dear friends and comrades.
When I first heard the news of the Pike River mine disaster, my mind raced back over the many similar deadly mining incidents in Australia that I have been assigned by the party to cover to establish the truth and alert the international working class.