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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:22 AM Original message |
Utah mine VP: We will resume coal mining operations at Crandall Canyon! |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
1. and this doesn't surprise me...greed trumps safety... |
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King Coal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:31 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. It used to be that mining companies hated losing a mule worse than a miner dying |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:46 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. yes I have heard of the Ludlow Massacre |
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King Coal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 08:03 AM Response to Reply #11 |
14. Thanks Bleedingheart. My great grandfather was a cousin Jack. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 08:07 AM Response to Reply #11 |
15. What a great remembrance. Thank you for sharing that. nt |
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King Coal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:35 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. And not just on the companies part. Sometimes greed trumps safety for the miners too. |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 04:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. You are absolutely right about greed trumping safety. Check out |
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youngdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:26 AM Response to Original message |
2. Sorry asshole, that's a gravesite. NO mining in a grave site |
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cgrindley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
4. Why are people so much more outraged by this than by |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:34 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. The Chinese mine did not collapse, it was flooded out |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 09:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
19. Too busy being outraged about defective Chinese products |
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cgrindley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 12:42 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. My sister and brother in law taught at a Chinese university in the 1980s |
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backscatter712 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 04:21 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. Nobody's heard of it. |
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Fierce (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
5. Miners, stand up and organize! |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:36 AM Response to Original message |
8. Hey, what's a few dead bodies along the way? Cost of doing business. nt |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
9. they said this the other day....they would dig around the dead miners...ain't that America |
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theHandpuppet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:40 AM Response to Original message |
10. Wake up America! This is the price of our carbon footprint |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 03:55 PM Response to Reply #10 |
21. You said it. nt |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 07:56 AM Response to Original message |
12. Bad idea |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 08:00 AM Response to Original message |
13. Save the whales, shoot the seals |
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OlderButWiser (389 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
16. I must ask |
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spinbaby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 08:50 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. How much were the miners paid to begin with? |
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Uben (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 09:06 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. They get paid good |
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Disturbed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 04:28 PM Response to Reply #18 |
28. This is a non-Union Corp. The miners will do the work or |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
23. "That these brave men have not have died in vain" no doubt. |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 04:17 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. "died in vain" = "owner hasn't gotten his money. Fuckwads. |
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coco77 (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
25. What happened to the old man... |
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Bluebear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-21-07 04:20 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. "Whatever happened the Lord dictated" he said briefly today. nt |
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