The New Zealand's Solid Energy, the largest coal mining company in the country and a state owned enterprise has been exposed for hiring private investigators to infiltrate local environmental activist groups.

Apparently this kind of story is not new in the Aukland area code, but the activities of Solid Energy and the PI firm hired to do their dirty work, Thompson & Clark, are getting a great deal of no-doubt unwanted attention...

Read all about it in the Sunday Star Times.

-- MDT

Labels: activist groups, infiltration, New Zealand, Solid Energy, Thompson and Clark