Drilling employee charged
PA Wellington Charges have been laid against a drilling company employee who allegedly backed his truck into a group of children as they returned from a drilling site behind Coromandel Hospital. Protesters, fighting the drilling, said they were shocked at the man’s behaviour and the absence of police when the incident happened. “But it illustrates how insensitive the whole operation is,” said the group spokeswoman, Ms Jan Conland.
“Thanks to an anomaly in the mining legislation, the company concerned, Barrack Mines of Australia, has been able to operate without any public hearing,” she said. The company runs under a mining licence issued in 1954 as a special quartz claim.
Residents are protesting against the use of an old licence A,
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