I am tired of the mine companies getting away with murder. They always say, "We are all family here." Well, they aren't. They conduct horrible industries whereby people are a commodity and they are sacrificed for safety and prudent practice. In the decade whereby alternative energies are state of the art, why are the American people still being sold a bill of goods regarding fossil fuels?
There is absolutely NOTHING in any of the reporting I have read yet that holds the company responsible or seeks to answer the question, Who, What, Where or Why. The company is doing a very good job of steering the attentions of the public from anything except the current rescue efforts. That sort of 'public awareness' campaign to save the image of the company and prevent fiscal responsibility toward the families and area is well planned and evasive.
With the USA Plutocracy seeking to over throw the government, all the reporting seems a bit aloof and victimizing to allow this to happen still yet again. I realize a miracle is necessary at this point, but, I sincerely believe that should be left up to the ministers and not the company.
Is the Union anywhere to be seen here? Are they doing anyone any good?
There is absolutely NOTHING in any of the reporting I have read yet that holds the company responsible or seeks to answer the question, Who, What, Where or Why. The company is doing a very good job of steering the attentions of the public from anything except the current rescue efforts. That sort of 'public awareness' campaign to save the image of the company and prevent fiscal responsibility toward the families and area is well planned and evasive.
With the USA Plutocracy seeking to over throw the government, all the reporting seems a bit aloof and victimizing to allow this to happen still yet again. I realize a miracle is necessary at this point, but, I sincerely believe that should be left up to the ministers and not the company.
Is the Union anywhere to be seen here? Are they doing anyone any good?
...Four miners were still missing, (click title to entry - thank you) and the officials said it was likely that those men also had been killed in the explosion on Monday.
A recovery operation was called off early Tuesday morning because high levels of methane gas made the mine unsafe for rescuers. Workers were boring holes into the mine to try to get more oxygen inside.
“The bodies will not be recovered until the mine is ventilated,” Ronald L. Wooten, the state’s mine health safety director, said at a news conference early Tuesday.
The accident was the worst in an American mine since Dec. 19, 1984, when 27 workers died in a fire at the Wilberg Mine in Orangeville, Utah.
The explosion occurred about 3 p.m. Monday at the Upper Big Branch mine, 30 miles south of Charleston, in Raleigh County.
The mine, which employs about 200, is owned by the Massey Energy Company, based in Virginia, and operated by the Performance Coal Company.
Mine safety officials said that there were three groups of miners affected by the blast. One group consisted of nine miners who were leaving the site at the end of their shift in a vehicle known as a “man trip.” Seven of the miners in the man trip were killed by the explosion while two others were injured and taken to the hospital by rescue workers.
A second group of 18 miners was said to be working a bit deeper in the mine, closest to the area where coal was actually being extracted. All 18 of them died.
A third group of four miners — the ones still unaccounted for — was even deeper in the mine...
