Sen. Byrd Rips Massey for Safety Violations After W.Va. Mine Explosion

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Byrd Rips Massey for Safety Violations After W.Va. Mine Explosion
By Mike Lillis 4/6/10 2:55 PM


From the office of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) comes this statement, in which the nine-term senator vows to discover “who was responsible” for yesterday’s explosion at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch mine, and to “hold those parties accountable.”

That’s about the same message coming from the other West Virginia lawmakers on Capitol Hill in the wake of the disaster. But then Byrd goes a step further, blasting Massey for its history of violations at the Upper Big Branch:



The Charleston Daily Mail reported today that inspectors have found more than 3,000 violations at the Upper Big Branch in the last 15 years, most recently being last month.

Four miners are still missing, but rescue workers have delayed their search due to high levels of methane gas in the mine.

Rocke and BYrd have enough stature to make some REAL demands, one would think. So what's going on?

(Thinking of heading up to WV now, to visit.)

(Hey we 3, ALL TOGETHER NOW!)

and you spend $6M on politicians, do those petty fines actually matter?

the "Industry Experts" write the laws.

"We must reexamine the health and safety laws we have put into place and what more may need to be done to avoid future loss of life."

REMOVE BLANKENSHIP.

Did you hear me?

I said REMOVE BLANKENSHIP. Send Don down in that mine and see how he likes it. And if he doesn't want to go, then shut down the mines, all of Massey's mines, freeze his personal assets and Massey's corporate assets and pay the unemployed miners out of those assets until Blankenship and Massey clean up their act.

It's real simple, folks. It's really very simple. MAKE THEM DO IT. You know what's the right thing to do. So just fucking do it.

Then, if you really wanta do something, start finding other ways to produce electricity than burning a fuel that wrecks the environment and kills people.

Try putting solar panels on, say, every third house in the desert southwest. I wonder how much electricity that would generate? Why don't we find out, huh? Would it cost any more than the costs of extracting all that coal and screwing up the environment, polluting the water, killing the people? Huh? Would it? WOULD IT??????????????

Jesus Harold Fucking Christ, can you people in Washington BUY a clue? I didn't think so.



Tansy Gold

from Blankenship and the Massey board of directors

57 citations last month alone and the operation just keeps running along?