New Zealand pledged to improve its workplace health and safety record, but 13 years later, Pike River Mine families say ... manage the risk of Whakaari. The owners of White Island — James ...

The owners of White Island — James ... into sharp focus because before White Island, there was the Pike River Mine disaster. In 2010, a series of explosions in the underground coal mine ...

“The mine was new and the owner, Pike River Coal Ltd (Pike), had not completed the systems and infrastructure necessary to safely produce coal. Its health and safety systems were inadequate ...

Aspen Mine Center Executive Director Ted Borden made ... In other city business, the council approved an agreement contract for AquaWorks as owner / representative to oversee the project of ...

About $6.3m will be paid to the owners of leased mining equipment arising from their priority rights, leaving about $73.7m to put towards Pike River’s debts. The Bank of New Zealand is a first ranking ...

which have spent more than a decade shielding Pike River Coal’s owners and managers from accountability for the extremely dangerous conditions in the mine. The grossly inadequate ventilation and ...

On March 9, New Zealand police announced that they had taken images of two more bodies inside the abandoned Pike River coal mine ... “Why haven’t the mine owners been made to recover the ...

"The mine was new and the owner, Pike River Coal Ltd (Pike), had not completed the systems and infrastructure necessary to safely produce coal. Its health and safety systems were inadequate," the ...

Pike River Mine was ceremonially opened on November 27 ... what happened underground – and perhaps some bodies would be recovered – when Pike’s new owner, Solid Energy, completed its government-funded ...

Human remains have been discovered for the first time in New Zealand's Pike River mine ... a number of attempts to renter the mine, but the mine's owners and the previous government refused ...

The Pike River mining disaster happened in November 2010 when two blasts ripped through the mine. Only two of the 31 miners on shift were able to escape. None of the miners' bodies have ever been ...