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New Zealand government rejects experts’ plan to fully investigate Pike River mine disaster On May 27, New Zealand’s Labour Party-led government formally rejected a Conceptual Development Plan submitted by international mining experts to investigate further the Pike River underground coal mine, to uncover the precise causes of the 2010 disaster that killed 29 workers. The Independent Technical Advisory Group (ITAG) produced the plan on behalf of 23 of the 29 families of the men who died at P...

New Zealand: Pike River mine disaster families oppose government plan to end underground investigation Dean Dunbar in 2016 at the families’ blockade on the road to Pike River mine. The announcement by Andrew Little, the minister in charge of the Pike River Recovery Agency (PRRA), shocked and angered many families of the 29 men who were killed when multiple explosions tore through the mine, beginning on November 19, 2010. For ten years, successive National and Labour Party governments, along w...