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A Little Insight at the Pike River Recovery

A Little Insight at the Pike River Recovery

A Little Insight at the Pike River Recovery A Little Insight at the Pike River Recovery , 8.13 MB
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

The government has announced the establishment of a new department to evaluate the prospects for re-entry of the Pike River mine drift.  Up to $23 million dollars over three years has been budgeted to the new department which was announced on the seventh anniversary of the disaster which killed 29 people. 

Lucy Austin spoke to the minister responsible for the effort, Andrew Little, and asked him to elaborate on the details of the recovery project and agency.