Tuesday, 20 July 2021, 4:29 pm
The Health Select Committee of Parliament responded late
last month to the petition (signed by more than 46,000
people) for a rescue helicopter to be based on the
Coromandel over the busy holiday periods. The committee took
into account written and verbal submissions from both the
National Ambulance Sector Office (NASO) and Whitianga
residents Stephan Bosman (the “petitioner”), Walter
Russell and Kevin Pringle.
The Select Committee’s
response to the petition is promising. They recognised
“…the complexity of delivering road and air ambulance
services in regions like the Coromandel, with widely
dispersed populations, separated by rural and often winding
Danielle Clent14:26, Jul 15 2021
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At least one person was trapped in the vehicle for two hours.
Five people were injured in a crash in Northland overnight, with at least one patient trapped inside a vehicle for two hours. Emergency services were called to the scene on McIntyre Rd, in Kawakawa, just after midnight on Thursday morning. Rescue helicopters from Northland and Auckland were also dispatched. Police said a vehicle, carrying five people, crashed into a tree.
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The ute crashed into a tree on McIntyre Rd, Kawakawa. A spokesperson for Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust said its crew helped a man, in his 30s, who had been trapped inside a vehicle for two hours.
Sharnae Hope18:12, Jul 05 2021
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Prior to 2019 the Coromandel Rescue Helicopter Trust was based in Whitianga for more than 12 years.
A battle to bring a lifesaving helicopter service back from the dead is heading to the Beehive. For more than a decade a Whitianga-based chopper service was on the spot to fly people out of potentially deadly situations until the Ministry of Health axed the service in 2019. Residents have been rallying to return the service ever since and Coromandel MP Scott Simpson is backing them. The ministry has made a deliberate decision to “prioritise Auckland and Northland ahead of people in Coromandel and I don’t think that s good enough”.
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Scientists at the Earth Sciences department of the University of Oxford demonstrate how to directly extract valuable metals from hot salty fluids (brines) trapped in porous rocks at roughly 2km below dormant volcanoes. They propose that this green-mining approach will sustainably provide essential metals for a net-zero future.
Magma underneath volcanoes releases metal-rich gasses that ascend toward the surface. These gases separate into brine and steam as the pressure drops. Most of the dissolved metals in the original magmatic gas become concentrated in the dense brine, which gets trapped in porous rock. The less-dense and metal-depleted steam continues to rise to the surface, where it forms fumaroles, the gases, and steam seen at the many active volcanoes around the world.