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The Government’s three waters reform programme is a “strongly politically-motivated approach” to centralise core functions, says experienced company director John Palmer.

An urgent warning: NZ Labour government moves to seal Pike River mine The New Zealand government’s Pike River Recovery Agency (PRRA) resumed work this week on installing the first of two seals in the Pike River underground coal mine. The Labour Party-led government is intent on ending an underground investigation into the November 2010 disaster in the mine, which killed 29 people. It has brushed aside the objections of the Pike River Families Group Committee, which represents the majority of the 29 families. These families are demanding that the investigation proceed into the mine workings ...

Stop the New Zealand government’s plan to seal Pike River mine! The Labour Party-led government is racing to shut down the underground investigation of Pike River coal mine. It aims to prevent the recovery of evidence that could lead to prosecutions of those responsible for the disaster which killed 29 workers in November 2010. The Pike River Recovery Agency (PRRA), which has only explored the mine’s drift or entry tunnel, intends to pull workers and equipment out and start sealing the mine this week. Nobody from Pike River Coal Ltd. has been prosecuted for the company’s egregious viola...

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