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ALBUM - SOLID ENERGY. 2000 - 2017.
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DescriptionThe final nail in the coffin for underground coalmines in New Zealand.
Spring creek opened in the year 2000. In 2017 they laid off staff putting the mine into care and maintenance. Spring Creek closed in 2017.
Solid Energy was valued at over Two Billion Dollars in 2011. It made a profit of 67 Million dollars in 2010. It was placed into receivership in 2015 then was declared insolvent and liquidated in 2017. The coal licenses were sold to private buyers. After 117 YEARS of OPERATION in NEW ZEALAND STATE OWNED COALMINES TERMINATED.Date of Photo2000 - 2017Map[1] ContributorTony Kokshoorn
Spring creek opened in the year 2000. In 2017 they laid off staff putting the mine into care and maintenance. Spring Creek closed in 2017.
Solid Energy was valued at over Two Billion Dollars in 2011. It made a profit of 67 Million dollars in 2010. It was placed into receivership in 2015 then was declared insolvent and liquidated in 2017. The coal licenses were sold to private buyers. After 117 YEARS of OPERATION in NEW ZEALAND STATE OWNED COALMINES TERMINATED.Date of Photo2000 - 2017Map[1] ContributorTony Kokshoorn
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Location (city or town)Spring creekOrganisation (eg business)Spring creek coalmine
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Category TagCoal Mining
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Date Created8th April 2025CommentsKeith Messenger
Don Elder got a huge payout for sabotaging Solid Energy. Green politics destroying another primary industry. Now we import shit coal from Asia to fire up our power station at Huntley to get us through the winter. Great planning.
Murray Fisher
Keith Messenger sadly the last coalition government don’t care about our jobs or the energy reserves. They were happily proving to their global puppet masters that they would stuff our country in the name of climate change. By using the imported coal the emissions are linked to Indonesia not NZ, therefore reducing our emissions. Playing the PC game and no doubt getting some financial kickback.
Don Spicer
Keith Messenger It was John Keys govt. That oversaw the demise of Solid Energy. Don Elder walked away with over a million bucks.
John Pearce
Let's hope Shane can get it and running again don't vote greens stuffed the west coast
Don Spicer
John Pearce Greens has nothing to do with it. It was under John Keys govt. That oversaw the demise of Solid Energy.
John Pearce
Don Spicer with the help of the greens
Guy Fitzgerald
Ssd day for all those mining families a west coast legacy and way of life ,some of the best coal in the world
Janine Halls
The decision should be up to the workers not some knob sitting in Wellington who knows sweet FA
Brodie Grave
Sad end really. Great collection of photos.
Ian Selwood
I suspect they J Key lead Government hammered the nails in the coffin of underground mining at the behest of Todd Energy who were backers of Pike River Coal.
Adrian Gardner
Every coal field needs a power station built on it. Out the ground into the boiler .
Ian Selwood
Sad fact is Labour Party was born on the Coast out of coal miner's. Then 100 year's later, with the help of their Green mates, turned around and stabbed their mining descendants in the back..!
Murray Saunders
I don’t understand how such a profitable mine went pop so quickly.
Was it due to politics?
Soz fir asking I don’t live on the coast anymore
Andy McNeish
Murray Saunders solid energy tried to diversify into alternative energy , bio fuels etc , didn’t work out , just really poorly run at the very top , Don Elder & his cronies has a lot to answer for
Murray Saunders
I don’t understand how such a profitable mine went pop so quickly.
Was it due to politics?
Soz fir asking I don’t live on the coast anymore
Keith Messenger
Don Elder got a huge payout for sabotaging Solid Energy. Green politics destroying another primary industry. Now we import shit coal from Asia to fire up our power station at Huntley to get us through the winter. Great planning.
Ian Selwood
Sad fact is Labour Party was born on the Coast out of coal miner's. Then 100 year's later, with the help of their Green mates, turned around and stabbed their mining descendants in the back..!
John Pearce
Let's hope Shane can get it and running again don't vote greens stuffed the west coast
Paul Thomas
Spring Creek - It was actually shut down by National and Solid Energy collapsed under National!
Phil Wright
And now they import it !!
Don Elder got a huge payout for sabotaging Solid Energy. Green politics destroying another primary industry. Now we import shit coal from Asia to fire up our power station at Huntley to get us through the winter. Great planning.
Murray Fisher
Keith Messenger sadly the last coalition government don’t care about our jobs or the energy reserves. They were happily proving to their global puppet masters that they would stuff our country in the name of climate change. By using the imported coal the emissions are linked to Indonesia not NZ, therefore reducing our emissions. Playing the PC game and no doubt getting some financial kickback.
Don Spicer
Keith Messenger It was John Keys govt. That oversaw the demise of Solid Energy. Don Elder walked away with over a million bucks.
John Pearce
Let's hope Shane can get it and running again don't vote greens stuffed the west coast
Don Spicer
John Pearce Greens has nothing to do with it. It was under John Keys govt. That oversaw the demise of Solid Energy.
John Pearce
Don Spicer with the help of the greens
Guy Fitzgerald
Ssd day for all those mining families a west coast legacy and way of life ,some of the best coal in the world
Janine Halls
The decision should be up to the workers not some knob sitting in Wellington who knows sweet FA
Brodie Grave
Sad end really. Great collection of photos.
Ian Selwood
I suspect they J Key lead Government hammered the nails in the coffin of underground mining at the behest of Todd Energy who were backers of Pike River Coal.
Adrian Gardner
Every coal field needs a power station built on it. Out the ground into the boiler .
Ian Selwood
Sad fact is Labour Party was born on the Coast out of coal miner's. Then 100 year's later, with the help of their Green mates, turned around and stabbed their mining descendants in the back..!
Murray Saunders
I don’t understand how such a profitable mine went pop so quickly.
Was it due to politics?
Soz fir asking I don’t live on the coast anymore
Andy McNeish
Murray Saunders solid energy tried to diversify into alternative energy , bio fuels etc , didn’t work out , just really poorly run at the very top , Don Elder & his cronies has a lot to answer for
Murray Saunders
I don’t understand how such a profitable mine went pop so quickly.
Was it due to politics?
Soz fir asking I don’t live on the coast anymore
Keith Messenger
Don Elder got a huge payout for sabotaging Solid Energy. Green politics destroying another primary industry. Now we import shit coal from Asia to fire up our power station at Huntley to get us through the winter. Great planning.
Ian Selwood
Sad fact is Labour Party was born on the Coast out of coal miner's. Then 100 year's later, with the help of their Green mates, turned around and stabbed their mining descendants in the back..!
John Pearce
Let's hope Shane can get it and running again don't vote greens stuffed the west coast
Paul Thomas
Spring Creek - It was actually shut down by National and Solid Energy collapsed under National!
Phil Wright
And now they import it !!
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West Coast New Zealand History (8th Apr 2025). ALBUM - SOLID ENERGY. 2000 - 2017.. In Website West Coast New Zealand History. Retrieved 20th Apr 2025 19:12, from https://westcoast.recollect.co.nz/nodes/view/34638