Govt cover-up of Pike River mine robot - claims NZ First

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NZ First say they can reveal that in late January, the Prime Minister received a proposal from Victoria University to re-enter Pike River mine using its robotic HADES underground mine disaster scout.
"Unmanned entry could easily have taken place by now, except this government does not want the public to learn the truth about what’s in there," says New Zealand First Leader and Northland Member of Parliament for Northland Rt Hon Winston Peters.
"On 26 January, the Dean of Engineering at Victoria University, Professor Dale Carnegie, actually wrote to the Prime Minister offering its HADES explosion resistant mine disaster scout. A robot specifically developed for Pike River but all he got back was silence.
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