Friday, 9 December 2016, 12:33 pm Press Release: Stand With Pike
Bill English offered chance to stand with Pike
Stand
with Pike media release - 9 December 2016
Pike River
families congratulate Bill English on becoming Prime
Minister of New Zealand, and have requested a meeting with
him to discuss their new plan for re-entry of the mine’s
drift.
Bernie Monk, whose son Michael was killed in the
Pike disaster, says Bill English now has the chance to make
good on his predecessor’s promise. “We were told
everything would be done to get our boys out. But now, when
experts are telling us re-entry can be done safely, the
Government wants to permanently seal the mine.
“As the
new leader of the country, Bill English has the opportunity
to do the right thing and work with us to get our boys, and
any evidence of what happened, out of that
hole.
“We’ll be at Parliament on Tuesday and we are
hoping he takes the opportunity to meet with us and begin
putting things
right.”
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