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NZOG - no Pike River compo
New Zealand Oil and Gas shareholders voted yesterday not to pay reparation of $3.41 million to the Pike River families.
New Zealand Oil and Gas shareholders voted yesterday not to pay reparation of $3.41 million to the Pike River families.
NZ Oil & Gas says it's satisfied it "did the right thing" following the disaster at its subsidiary Pike River Coal, as it posts an after-tax profit of $16.7m.
The Ministry of Economic Development has put 23 exploration blocks, mainly offshore, up for tender in its annual tender round.
Police could have sealed the Pike River mine and saved any potential survivors...
Normalising profits to bury the bottom line shouldn't be the norm.
Mine contractors are waiting for money months after catastrophe.
Budget documents reveal a power cable to the Kupe gas and oil field has failed and is the subject of a $95 million insurance claim.
Tony Kokshoorn says authorities involved in the Pike River mine disaster have failed to communicate "from day one".
Police last night told families of the Pike River mine victims that there was a possibility rescuers had identified a body in the mine. There was also evidence that rescue boxes in the mine had been opened.
A Royal Commission of Inquiry into the deadly Pike River mine blast, which starts today, will have a massive impact...
Families of the dead men still at Pike River want the recovery of their loved ones' bodies to be a condition of a proposed sale of the mine.