CNN: Sago miners' kin seek truth, solutions

[DeepModem Mom]

Sago miners' kin seek truth, solutions
West Virginia governor calls hearing a step toward 'closure'
Tuesday, May 2, 2006

BUCKHANNON, West Virginia (CNN) -- Relatives of coal miners killed in January's Sago Mine disaster spoke of heroes and heartbreak Tuesday as they asked an investigative panel to look for ways to ensure others don't endure similar pain.

They also wanted to know exactly what happened in the mine and how they came to be told their loved ones were alive, only to find out hours later there was one survivor.

"We all deserve the truth, and we deserve to know what happened on January 2," said Shelly Groves Rose, whose father, Jerry Groves, was one of 12 miners who died after an explosion at Sago near Tallmansville.

"Show respect for our lost loved ones" by "answering our questions fully and completely and, most importantly, truthfully," she told the panel of mining and government representatives, including West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin.

Manchin said at the public hearing that a joint state and federal investigation into the incident is ongoing and that he has asked for a report to be completed by July 1. The report will detail what happened at the Sago Mine and recommend mine-safety improvements....

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/02/sago/index.html

[brook]

1. They certainly deserve

all the answers they seek. Unfortunately they'll get double-speak and lies. There is not the respect for
life that one might imagine in a "Christian" nation. There never was.

"Bottom lines' make damned near everyone expendable.

Were it different, you'd see a few corportists heads roll from time to time. At best, what do you see? Half-assed 'investigations' which serve to supress real information a good deal of the time - and perhaps some innocuous fines that disappear down a rabbit hole.

There is no excuse for miners to die -save some really extraordinary situation. Unfortunately, safeguards cost money and require a caring heart to spend that money.