Please learn to trust the directors and management - that elusive oil strike is any day now.
Meanwhile, first class travel, accommodation, big salaries and perks, consultancy fees and wining & dining are required to keep bringing the opportunities (like Tunisia, Indonesia etc) to strike that oil.
And of course, NZOG had nothing to do with Pike River Coal beyond being a shareholder.
Judge: Pike River Coal guilty of safety breaches
Last updated 14:44 18/04/2013
Pike River Coal Ltd has been found guilty of nine health and safety failures in a damning judgment that blames it for causing the November 2010 blasts and deaths of 29 men.
Judge Jane Farish announced her decision to convict the company, which is in receivership this afternoon after a two-day hearing last month.
She said she found in relation to three charges that breaches by Pike River Coal were ''causative of the explosion and the subsequent deaths of those men who perished''.
''In this case, there were fundamental breaches of the Health and Safety in Employment Act which led to the unnecessary deaths of 29 men.''
Her full decision will be released in two weeks.
The former Labour Department, now part of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, laid nine charges under the act against the mine's owners.
They related to methane, strata and ventilation management, mitigating the risk of an explosion and impact, plus health and safety management for contractors, subcontractors and their employees in the underground West Coast coalmine.
Each charge carries a maximum penalty of $250,000.
During the hearing two witnesses told the court about the dire chances any blast survivors had of escaping because the mine had insufficient smoke or life lines, used to lead miners to the exit during a fire or explosion.
Australian mine safety expert David Reece and ministry health and safety inspector Jane Birdsall also criticised the mine's fresh air base at last month's hearing