
44 Control for Aluminum Production
meet nancial targets, and the authority not having sufcient focus or
capacity to monitor progress and act accordingly.
A Royal Commission of Enquiry
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into the Pike River Coal Mine disaster
in New Zealand on November 19, 2010, which killed 29 people, found
that “… In the last 48 days before the explosion, there were 21 reports of
methane levels reaching explosive volumes, and 27 reports of lesser, but
potentially dangerous, volumes. The reports of excess methane continued
up to the very morning of the tragedy. The warnings were not heeded.”
The company had only one mine, and it was the sole source of revenue ...