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Pike River mine disaster

Rolfe said:
I was getting a great deal of stick for suggesting some people might actually have done something to save Alison Hume (see http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=169278).

However, I totally see where everyone was coming from on this occasion. If a team had gone in, all that would have been achieved would have been more loss of life, and it's obvious those in charge knew that.

Rolfe.
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Yes. Different scenario entirely. This sounds more like the Blantyre Mining Disaster in 1877, when 207 lives were lost in a village then no larger than Greymouth is now. The Ayrshire "rescue" involved a casualty in plain sight in a hole with no gas problems.
 
vIQleS said:
I heard something this morning which surprised me a little.

The news was talking about the Board or directors or somesuch having a meeting and considering whether to reopen the mine or not, and one of the criteria for consideration was "...the fact that 29 people had died."

Now all sympathy for friends and family and so forth, but I completely fail to see how dead people factor into the question of whether we should reopen this (profitable, labour-hiring, commodity-producing) mine.

Safety, potential for similar events in the future, ecological considerations, stuff I've not thought of, sure - but deaths per se - I don't get it. Are they afraid that the ghosts are going to come back and haunt the place?
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Don't forget they're going to have to go to the trouble of having it blessed by a Kaumatua if they do decide to reopen, or hell, probably even if they don't.
 
If they do, they will have to spend a lot of money on ventilation and insurance.
Cost benefit analysis will ultimately decide.
 
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