Utah Rescue "Has Not Gone Well" (Mine Co-Owner Murray)

Source: Reuters

Utah rescue "has not gone well"
By James Nelson

HUNTINGTON, Utah (Reuters) - Rescuers searching for trapped coal miners plan to bore a third hole into a collapsed Utah mine after another attempt to locate them with a camera failed, officials said on Sunday.

Miners burrowing out an escape route big enough for a person had to temporarily abandon their efforts twice over night as seismic "bumps" shook the new horizontal tunnel.

"Underground, it has not gone well," mine co-owner Robert Murray told a news conference. "They are the most difficult conditions that I have ever seen in my 50 years of mining."

Many milestones in the weeklong rescue operation have taken longer than expected, and rescuers have stopped making projections about when the holes being drilled into the rock would reach their goals.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070813/us_nm/mine_utah_dc

for Murray than it has for his miners.

cared about safety. I'm sure we'll hear more about him in the future but I hope it's true and that this wasn't caused by negligence.

would be likely to say he wasn't a good boss or that he didn't care about safety.

Just sayin'.

Thinking positively for the sake of the trapped miners, you know.

on Bob (bob up and kiss my ass) Murray.

been held accountable for anything in either the corporate or govt. world since I don't remember how long? Whatever happened with that other mine disaster a couple of years ago? Anyone called to account? Murray's still talking about an earthquake when the seismic evidence shows nothing of the sort.

And slightly OT, but I've heard little to nothing in the whore press about Gov. Pawlenty vetoing (I think it was) the transportation bill that might have been instrumental in preventing that bridge collapse. Guess he'll be running for Prez next time around.

can dream, 'eh?

Dreams. :)

And include their families, too. It's got to be awful for all involved.

There was no earthquake and there is no magma moving anywhere near there! Murray keeps talking about an accident, an act of God, when in fact it was a collapse brought about his company's mining practices.

and why does it seem that he has a lot of say in the rescue operation. Any operation would be doomed in his hands.

blasting would also show up as seismic shocks, so it's been mentioned at least once.

Getting fuel is just dangerous, whether you work in a mine, on an oil rig, as a logger, or in a nuclear plant. Wind, solar, and water are not only the cleanest sources but probably the safest for workers. So naturally our government isn't very interested in them!

I still can't believe Reagan had the solar panels that Jimmy Carter had installed on the White House roof removed. What an asinine thing to do.

:grr:

This link is well worth the read. Pretty good links within the main body.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/10/bob-murray-mine-owner-and-lightning-rod/

A good account of this man is in this link.

http://www.kentucky.com/233/story/11062.html

I can't stand listening to this nimrod. I pray that these men are all right. It seems like such a long time. Whoever was the newsman on CNN at ten was talking to a reporter on the scene (maybe Gary Tuchman?) that had a handful of papers saying that part of that mine had to be abandoned in early 2007 due to safety concerns and cave-ins, and the part that was abandoned was very close to the site of the current trouble. Reporter also said that Boss Hog had been fined numerous times for violations. Maybe some of this will be repeated on the 1 AM EDT newscast.

Anybody know that?

had been rescued after 11 days underground in a previous accident.

Mentioned here:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070812/ts_nm/mine_utah_dc

It was at a Chinese gypsum mine in Hebei Province two years ago.
http://english.gov.cn/2005-11/18/content_102191.htm

Still, it will take incredible luck to have a repeat here. :(

through and that in two days they would be in contact with the miners, and be able to provide air, food and water.

Besides the initial claim of an earthquake, everything these a$$halos has said has been 100% wrong or false.

They are either habitual liars or horribly incompetent. And it has cost people their lives.

Similar to the monkey man-boy acting as president in chief in the white house.

90 thousand a year to inspect mines in colorado...this guy is the laziest drinkingest dweeb ever.

I saw Murray on the teevee repeatedly talking about an imaginary earthquake and reminding reporters how often he goes "underground" himself to check on the progress of the rescue efforts. If a person was really upset about this tragedy, would he be so willing and able to spin facts and work on his image? It seems his only concern was getting on the air and lying. It tells me that Murray doesn't care for the miners, only himself. A truly worried person would not be able to mount such an aggressive PR campaign on behalf of himself.

I also heard MSNBC talk yesterday about how this had been "quite a week" for him.

"Quite a week" for the raving loony union-busting who lied about the "earthquake", who lied about retreat mining being performed on site, who used airtime to rant and rave about Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, the MSHA, the mining unions as well as Grumpy, Sleepy and Doc?

Also quite a week for the six miners and their families, but let's not talk about that.

This sanctimonious, mendacious, corpulent, MOTRHERFUCKER is a working mans worst NIGHTMARE. He is a virulent, cancerous, sack of corporate avarice. I hope a family member who is having "quite a week" does some serious ass kicking of fat boy Bobba The Hut.

this is it. It's just like other fossil fuels. We've already gotten the stuff that was easy to get. Now they have to mine deeper and more dangerous deposits, or strip mine our mountains away. Liquified and gasified coal is not the answer to our energy problems. There is no such thing as clean or safe coal.