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Massey CEO Blankenship Calls Lethal Mine Disasters 'Unavoidable' [1]

"Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship is certainly making the rounds today, in support of his company’s latest PR campaign — this one an all-out effort to convince the public that the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster was an unavoidable act of God."

Ken Ward Jr. report in the Coal Tattoo blog for the Charleston Gazette July 22, 2010. [2]

SEE ALSO:

"Mine Officials Slam Massey Claims on Ventilation" (AP) [3]

Disasters [4]
Environmental Politics [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Public [7]
Source: Coal Tattoo [2], 07/23/2010
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/massey-ceo-blankenship-calls-lethal-mine-disasters-unavoidable [2] http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2010/07/22/massey-ceo-don-blankenship-on-coal-mining-disasters-oftentimes-they-are-unavoidable/ [3] http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/07/22/us/politics/AP-US-Mine-Explosion-Ventilation.html?_r=1&ref=news [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/disaster [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-politics [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81