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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-12-06 03:22 PM
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West Virginia mine disaster: official whitewash
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0601/S00116.htm

The governor of West Virginia and a spokesman for the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) announced Monday that they will conduct a joint investigation and public hearings into the Sago Mine disaster that claimed the lives of 12 miners last week. A US Senate subcommittee also announced a public hearing to be held January 19.

Governor Joe Manchin made clear, however, that the joint state-federal investigation would not focus on the well-documented safety violations at the mine or why state and federal regulators allowed it to remain open. Instead, he said, the probe would concentrate on the communications failure that led miners’ families to believe the men had been rescued alive.
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expatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-12-06 03:46 PM
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1. This is a fucking outrage. I am so pissed.
How dumb do they think we are... and are they right? We need to scream about this.
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