For the first time, the criminal trial over the deadly White Island eruption hears evidence from the three brothers who own the volcano.
It is the position of the prosecution that there was a duty on every defendant to understand and manage the risk of allowing tours on the island.
Survivors of the eruption have told the court they did not understand the risk when making the decision to visit Whakaari.told the court tours to the island presented a one in 20 chance of a "mass casualty event". "The family first got involved with White Island through my grandfather, George Raymond Buttle. He was a sharebroker and he was involved in the island when the island was being used by the White Island Products Limited to mine the island for sulphur," the statement said.
"People say, 'why did you buy it?' And he just said 'Oh I thought it would be nice to own a volcano'." That was 1914. It was more than 100 years later on December 9, 2019 that 47 people were on Whakaari when it moved beyond its level two alert warning to a full-scale volcanic eruption.Over the six hours of questioning by Worksafe NZ investigators, the Buttle brothers repeatedly reference the long-running relationship the family had with GNS Science.
"Our fundamental belief is that if GNS were unhappy with the decisions being taken, they would certainly have elevated it, not only to us, but to Emergency Management Bay of Plenty."
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