Production at Solid Energy's Spring Creek underground coal mine has been halted after three safety...

The former chief executive officer of Pike River Coal has set up a mine safety consulting business. Peter Whittall was the boss of the West Coast mine when a series of explosions killed 29 men in November 2010.

Canadian oil company Apache has been talking up the prospects for onshore oil finds on the North Island's East Coast and is trying to play concerns about fracking and the local environment.

The former CEO of Pike River Coal has been criticised for refusing to appear at the Greymouth District Council hearings into the deaths of 29 miners in November last year. Gordon Ward was the chief executive until seven weeks before the final blast..