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Coal prices are down and no one deserves it more than Massey Energy
Coal stocks are down, across the board. Bloomberg recently reported that the largest U.S. coal producer, Peabody Energy Corp., fell 5.2 %, to $40.96. The second biggest producer, Arch Coal Inc., fell 5.9 % to $21.08. Massey Energy Co., the largest Central Appalachia coal producer, plunged $1.40, or 4.6 percent, to $28.75.
via Clean coal vs. natural gas – Aug. 30, 2010.
You sickening bastards like killing coal miners don’t ya? Yeah I know you do. You don’t care about their safety at all especially Massey Energy. Well take this!
Why isn’t there a criminal investigation going on of Massey Energy?
An NPR News investigation has documented a dangerous and potentially illegal act at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia two months before a massive April explosion killed 29 mine workers.
On Feb. 13, an electrician deliberately disabled a methane gas monitor on a continuous mining machine because the monitor repeatedly shut down the machine.
Three witnesses say the electrician was ordered by a mine supervisor to “bridge” the automatic shutoff mechanism in the monitor.
via Massey Mine Workers Disabled Safety Monitor : NPR.
I’m sure Joe Main at MSHA is probably itching to lay the smackdown on Massey Energy if he’s not in the process of doing so already.
Protestors occupied a coal corporation in response to environmental violations
Three occupied Massey Energy subsidiary Marfork Coal Company, Inc.’s main office this morning at eight. The protestors plan to present a citizen’s arrest warrant and list of violations on the Marfork processing plant, Bee Tree Surface Mine and Brushy Fork sludge impoundment to company president Christopher Blanchard and Massey CEO Don Blankenship.
DC Indymedia: Protestors occupy W.Va. mining office in response to mounting environmental violations
If they are violating the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection’s codes, then why isn’t the state doing more to clamp down on Massey Energy.
Ha ha Massey Energy
So you all thought you could be slick and buy a judge eh?
After the Massey Energy coal mining company lost a $50 million verdict to a competitor, CEO Don Blankenship spent $3 million electing a friendly judge to West Virginia's Supreme Court of Appeals who went on to cast the deciding vote in a case that overturned the verdict.
But yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court handed a setback to Massey and other companies that use their financial clout to influence the judiciary, with a ruling that elected judges must recuse themselves from cases involving big campaign contributors.
