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- Fairfax Video, January 2013 (4)
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- A video of an interview with Terry Huggins about a boulder crashing into the side of his neighbour's house in Sumner. The boulder came lose from the cliffs above and smashed through the deck of the house into one of the supporting poles. It is the third large boulder to hit the house, with one also lodged in a bedroom.
- Creator(s)
- Rachel Young, Daniel Tobin
- Date
- 1:08am 25th January 2013
- Tags
- boulder, Sumner, Terry Huggins, cliff, rock fall, Media, Communications and Journalism
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- Fairfax Video, March 2012 (4)
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- A video of an interview with Mark Yetton, Engineering Geologist at the Port Hills Geotech Group, about their work to assess the risk of rock fall and cliff collapse on the Christchurch Port Hills.
- Creator(s)
- Marc Greenhill, Daniel Tobin
- Date
- 5:14am 8th March 2012
- Tags
- rock fall, cliff collapse, cliff, engineer, geologist, Port Hills, Port Hills Geotech Group, risk, Media, Communications and Journalism
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- Fairfax Video, May 2013 (10)
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- A video about the removal of 'Rocky', a 15-tonne boulder which tore through a house in Heathcote during the 22 February 2011 earthquake. The video includes an interview with Jan Kupec, Chief Geotechnical Engineer at CERA, about the dimensions and path of the boulder. It also includes interviews with James McKenzie, the manager at the Mt Hutt Ski Area who purchased the rock, and Phil Johnson, the owner of the Heathcote property who put the rock on sale.
- Creator(s)
- Daniel Tobin
- Date
- 1:08am 31st May 2013
- Tags
- Rocky, boulder, rock fall, Jan Kupec, CERA, James McKenzie, Heathcote, Mt Hutt, Phil Johnson, Media, Communications and Journalism
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- Fairfax Video, December 2013 (1)
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- A video of a press conference with Gerry Brownlee announcing a CERA review which will change the zoning of 270 Port Hills properties. Brownlee announces that 247 properties will change from green zoned to red zoned and 33 properties will change from red zoned to green zoned. The properties that have been rezoned red have an unacceptable level of life risk from cliff collapse and the potential of debris inundation.
- Date
- 1:53am 6th December 2013
- Tags
- Gerry Brownlee, Port Hills, zoning, press conference, CERA, cliff collapse, rock fall, debris inundation, red zone, green zone, residential red zone, red zone, Media, Communications and Journalism
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- Fairfax Video, June 2013 (1)
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- A video of an interview with Andy Cole, site supervisor at Geovert, about the procedure for blasting rocks in Hillsborough. The rock-blasting work was paid for by two Christchurch couples whose properties were red-zoned and red-stickered. The couples hope that the blasting work will encourage CERA to change their land zoning from red to green, allowing them to rebuild their homes on the same sites.
- Creator(s)
- Daniel Tobin
- Date
- 4:56am 11th June 2013
- Tags
- rock fall, explosion, Geovert, Andy Cole, Hillsborough, residential red zone, red zone, red sticker, CERA, Media, Communications and Journalism