TYT: Exposed - The Truth Behind The WV Mine Tragedy

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 10:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q79c_okixYM   Posted on YouTube: April 09, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 2088   Posted on DU: April 09, 2010 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1569

 

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Summary: Cenk explains how the pursuit of profit trumped the value of human life at Massey Mines with the help of political connections and money. You can http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/09/massey-ceo-blankenship-ha_n_531842.html|read about it here>.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. K&R

[OhioChick]

2. K&R n/t

[florida08]

3. this is so revolting

it's hard to come up with any logical thought. Blankenship should be hung and McConnell should be in prison. I heard Massey will pay for the funerals. I'd like to tell him to stuff it up his...

[EJSTES2005]

11. maybe massey had life insurance policies like walmart.....

to cover these types of "costs"

[truth2power]

4. On the Diane Rheim show this week, a guy named Watzman...

from the United Mining Assoc. was asked by a caller why these mine operators can't be charged with "negligent homicide".

Watzman did a sort of lateral shuffle and started talking about how difficult it is to prove the operators did anything deliberately to cause the accident. So...might as well move on etc.

The host (Diane was absent that day) failed to challenge this assertion. I think Watzman knew exactly what he was doing.

I am not a lawyer, but it seems that a case could be brought that the operators failed to do what a prudent person would do under the circumstances (negligence). Watzman wasn't going to go there.

Disgusting!

[ejbr]

5. k & r n/t

[davidhilton]

6. Sociopathic Behavior is not just a definition in a Medical Dictionary. . .

There are actually people who are sociopaths, loss of human life has no effect on them - they are hard-wired for this. . . .

[pleah]

7. K&R Voted!

[Wetzelbill]

8. K and R

[Enthusiast]

9. I'm not a fan of vigilante justice

but in Blankenship's case I could make an exception. I hate these fucks. My great grandfather was killed in a mine when his daughter, my grandmother, was 15 years old.

[20score]

10. It's not like they weren't warned about this when Bush put these people in power.

Makes me sick.

[EJSTES2005]

12. Regulations are for wimpy bleeding heart liberals.

Safety Regulations
Financial Regulations
Health/Life Insurance Regulations

These types of regulations slow down capitalism and lower profits. We all know Bush and his minions worked very hard to put these "Fox in the hen house" type of regulations and enforcement policies in place for the last eight years........


Sadly this surely is just the tip of a very massive anti-regulatory iceberg.

[Turborama]

13. K&R If a corporation is a 'person', can it be charged with manslaughter?

They can't have it both ways.

And they don't even care about the children, either.

Marsh Fork Elementary, Massey Energy's Shumate Coal Sludge Impoundment and Goals Coal Prep Plant



The Marsh Fork Elementary School in Raleigh County with the light green lawn and white buildings is in the foreground at left. Just behind the school is a blue bend in the Marsh Fork of the Little Coal River. Across the river to the right is the coal silo--just 150 feet from the school. Though not readily visible, train tracks run beside the silo. Concerned parents worry that coal dust and the chemicals used in processing coal and loading it from the silo onto the train are drifting onto school grounds. Prove this yourself--walk barefoot through the playground and take a look at your toes.

Across the river and left are the blue buildings of the Goals Coal Processing Plant, a subsidiary of Massey Energy. To learn more about the dangerous chemicals used in coal prep plants, see the Why Worry section of this website. Above the prep plant, a road zigzags up the face of an earthen dam holding back billions of gallons of coal sludge in Massey's leaking Shumate impoundment. A worker at this site, now alleges he is gravely ill from the chemicals used on site. He says portions of this dam where not constructed properly and Mine Safety and Health Administration records support his statements. Beyond the impoundment --that black lake of toxic goo--another Massey Energy subsidiary, Independence Coal, is starting an

1,849 acre strip mine. How crazy to have blasting at this strip mine above an impoundment held by a violation-prone earthen dam--just 400 yards from an elementary school!

From: http://www.sludgesafety.org/what_me_worry/marsh_fork/index.html




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[Petrushka]

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