PRC Pike River Coal

[minimoke]

Is it possible that Bathurst may consider picking up some of Solid Energy's assets, such as pike?

you are making the same mistake others have made. The are no assets because they can't get to the coal.

[Balance]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7412...-five-years-on

[Absolute144]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7412...-five-years-on

Reader may also like to google: "Methane drainage royal commision on the pike river coal mine" for an understanding of why the mine was so dangerous, why there is 99% pure methane behind the barriers 170 metres into the mine - why it is so difficult to re enter.

[Marilyn Munroe]

Reader may also like to google: "Methane drainage royal commision on the pike river coal mine" for an understanding of why the mine was so dangerous, why there is 99% pure methane behind the barriers 170 metres into the mine - why it is so difficult to re enter.

Thanks for the recommendation. The part of the Royal Commissions report you reference makes for grim reading.

Boop boop de do
Marilyn

[minimoke]

Thanks for the recommendation. The part of the Royal Commissions report you reference makes for grim reading.

Boop boop de do
Marilyn

Fair to say I reckon that mine owner's and management left it to their own common sense to run the mine with a methane risk as they saw fit. Despite the Royal Commission I find it very disappointing that in the new legislation the expression "hazard"is not defined anywhere - with the politicians expressly relying on company managers to use their common sense.

Also worth mentioning to keep this thread current is that the High Court has declined the families request to review the decision Worksafe made not to prosecute Peter Whittall.

The stage is now well and truly set for some other dodgy company to kill people and there will be no repercussions.

[Monkey Poms]

The news at the moment. Apparently pike is sitting in solid energys books at $1.4m. Could be an option there for some - go on make them an offer.

I think $1.4 equates to the land value fencing and the road structure.

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On a lighter note ( the flag).
Top sporting events such as athletics. When there are Kiwis in the final and no Poms,
the best part of 65 million Brits are willing the Kiwis on to win.

Replacing the old flag with one depicting a common fern, well it won't
have the same stimulation for some Brits.

Replace it with a Kiwi on the flag,then outside world can immediately relate to it.

Monkey Poms.

[Balance]

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/nation...lawful-bargain

Mr Whittall deserves his day in court just as the families of the miners killed in the explosion deserve their day in court.

Then, only then will justice be done and be seen to be done.

NZOG management and directors should also have their day in court to explain properly how they funded and kept on funding the development of this bomb until it killed 29 people.

[Balance]

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/opinio...ion-talks.html

Excerpt : "the deal was they dropped the prosecution and the mine company coughed up a few million dollars in compensation - blood money, as many of the families saw it - and they want justice, not cash".

[minimoke]

Best of luck to the families and to justice. This is NZ's darkest day of shame from beginning to end!

[Baa_Baa]

Best of luck to the families and to justice. This is NZ's darkest day of shame from beginning to end!

Ditto that, a sad, sorry and deplorable state of affairs. Bring our men back home to their loved ones, or at least try to. I have family lines back to the Granity and Denniston mines, they would turn in their graves knowing of this debacle. It sickens me about the pain the families have gone through, deserted by the government and the bosses get paid off! Despicable. Bring our men back home.