Pike River families are welcoming Allied Concrete’s decision not to supply the concrete required to seal the Pike River Mine.
Allied has contacted Sonya Rockhouse, whose son Ben was killed in the mine, to assure her they will halt supply until the dispute over re-entering the mine is resolved.
“We are incredibly relieved by this decision,” says Sonya. “Allied has shown real moral strength in stopping this work and is a great example of a good family business.
“We understand this means the sealing of the mine cannot go ahead, and we’re grateful to Allied and to all of the Kiwis who have supported us to stop the mine being sealed.
“We have never lost faith in New Zealanders’ belief in doing the right thing, and we’re hoping that this sends a message to the Government to follow suit and to honour John Key’s promise to get our boys out.
“We have international and local experts who say the drift is safe to enter. There may be the bodies of our boys in there as well as evidence that shines a light on what happened that terrible day.
“All we want is the chance to go in and check before our boys and any evidence is sealed away forever.”
It’s not just safe it’s necessary
Some chap from Howick in the Herald Letters – Monday, 14th November 2016 – said a drone or self-driving robot via university group capability could go in to check the conditions and he would lead the project; crowd funding may be needed, but it would be a fact that if the government refused even that to go into the mine, then they have other reasons for wanting to seal the mine. What are they?
yes that sounds good J a decent robot not the rubbish type we sent in last time its like sending a boy to do a mans job. I am happy to donate funds I bet others are to if it means we have a chance of getting any of our men out.
then they have other reasons for wanting to seal the mine. What are they?
then they have other reasons for wanting to seal the mine. What are they?
then they have other reasons for wanting to seal the mine. What are they?
then they have other reasons for wanting to seal the mine. What are they?
Come on Steve, get real and forget the conspiracy theories.
I agree – go in if it’s safe.
If not don’t kill more people. Don’t forget there are still two bodies in the Strongman mine.
Otherwise the mine becomes a mass grave which family can visit. The bodies are there just as if they were underground with a cross or whatever on top.
Don’t forget most people lost at sea are never found and my uncle lost in WW2 like many thousands of others is still missing.
Remember Big John. ” They never reopened that worthless pit, they just placed a marble stand in front of it.”
Pike River is a different though, because it was decided to NOT EVEN TRY and rescue survivors. The narrative was that “there were no survivors”, so urgency wasn’t required. Now imagine that from the positioning of the bodies (let alone potential scrawling in the sand, final notes etc) that the narrative that they “were definitely all dead” was a lie? How does that make the Government look? IMO, there is ZERO chance John Key is going to let us find out what really happened down there, because the risks TO HIM PERSONALLY are far to great.
Okay Patrick but most people go to work and come home from work not get buried @ work. I don’t trust our current government ( they have told too many porkies ) they will mine again when we are all gone its all about money not people when are Nzers going to wake up and realize our current government only cares about money and profit. War is different you cannot compare the issues you raised with the Pike miners this is an issue of principles here and giving false hope and making false promises is not being principled
I’m sure you are right and an idiot like me is wrong.
Do you have some birch sticks to beat me with as I obviously deserve it?
I am so stupid I didn’t even realise that the Pike River mine was owned by the government – “they will mine again.”
The good thing is that you and Nitrium will take over and recover the bodies – congrats.
You are a couple of fantastic Kiwis and you show the PM and most of the rest of the experts plus the PM as the lightweighthe they are.
When are you going in as we are with you and will hold the bastards back who want to stop you as they are behind the so obvious cover up.
Guess I’m stuffed again but I thought the Strongman mine was a civilian disaster but perhaps the war was still on in the 60s and they just forgot to tell me.
Don’t mention the war – but I didn’t think sailors, climbers etc who are never found were at war – silly billy me. and I had this notion it ended in 1945.
Incidentally, there is a building in Wellington where one expert says it should be pulled down and another says it’s safe.
They can’t be both right.
As the expert on everything we need you to be the deciding voice.
It’s not an “obvious coverup” more a “potential cover up” since. The Government and “experts” have constantly spun a line about the survivability of the disaster (i.e. there was none whatsoever). What if that turns out to not be true? They might have been right all along (i.e. that they were all instantly killed), but imo they can’t possibly KNOW that with 100% certainty. Going down into the mine to recover the bodies might well uncover some very uncomfortable revelations for all involved. Key and the mining cronies attitude is very much one of “don’t wanna know”. Can you really blame them, given the ramifications if it turns out to be wrong?
It’s a simple question Patrick;
if the government refused even that to go into the mine, then they have other reasons for wanting to seal the mine. What are they?
No conspiracy – no people involved, just possible answers to questions. Key promised every help to the people left behind. Was that a lie?
Now I get it. This isn’t about the families at all it’s about politics.
What a shame.
The PM certainly promised help to the families, but it appears that the advice he has is unanimous that it is too dangerous to send more live people in.
The families seem to have the opposite advise, so we come cack to the Wellington building.
Fear not. If the advice he was given was actually the opposite it would have leaked out within hours.
If the conspiracy theory were true that “they” are ‘Covering up” it would also have leaked out as good people are not going to go along with a cover up.
The best conspiracy theory I heard was when the congregation of a mosque in Central Java were told after the twin towers that it was organised by Jews and the proof was that more than 2000 Jewish Twin tower workers stayed home that day. When asked if I thought it was true, I answered ” Two people couldn’t keep a secret like that let alone 2000.”
That’s the trouble with all conspiracy theories – they rely on not one but many people keeping a big secret.
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