A Watercare press release has been quick to state that the company is to be prosecuted alongside Canadian Pacific in relation the the Onenhunga blast, in which Canadian born engineer and mother of two Philomen Gulland was tragically killed, six other people were injured in the blast. Watercare and Canadian Pacific to be prosecuted following…
Pike River Mine would’ve been illegal in Australia, or in most first world countries for that matter. Ean Higgins, the old-school Australian journalist vilified in New Zealand for asking “difficult questions” at the Pike River disaster press conferences and called a “tosspot” and “boorish” by Gerry Brownlee, was one of the journalists who managed yesterday…
Police and Department of Conservation officials met today with families of men killed in the Pike River Mine to deliver the shattering news that recovery work at the mine is to be abandoned. Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the families and friends of the dead men, who must now learn to grieve for…
Today’s editorial in NZResources.com, written by Ross Louthean, has expressed astonishment at the police being in charge at Pike River Coal and “making it known what could and could not happen.” In a report headed “Mine rescue must not remain with Mr Plod” Louthean said that, in the view of his Australian mining colleagues, this…
The Sydney Morning Herald published today a startling interview with historian Gerry Morris, who grew up in a Greymouth mining family and who lost his grandfather in a mining accident near Greymouth in 1940. (For more about Mr Morris’ background read the article here.) Mr Morris was critical of the way the in which the…
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