Giving business a bad name

The press conference last week of Utah mine owner, Murray, was bizarre to say the least. Murray took time donated to him for an update on the missing miners and turned it into a twilight zone style of political rant.

His behavior hasn't improved. His claims that seizmic activity keeps the mine unstable is simply a mistruth. He lies.

The ground around the Utah mine has been over worked. Reports have been given to the press that tell of unstable and shifting dirt caused by years of deep mining and retreat mining. It was probably inadvisable to open another shaft in that mountain to begin with.

Still, Murray wants to insist it's God's work and not his incompetence and lack of over sight.

Now it appears what I feared has come to fruition. Even while MSHA officials are saying its too soon to give up home, Murray Energy Group officials are saying the bodies may never be recovered.

I mourn the loss of any jobs, especially when they come after a loss of life, but justice would be done imo if Murray had to liquidate his assets and give them all to the families of the 9 men who lost their lives and to those workers who are now unemployed.

It is men like Murray and his partner who give business a bad name.

For the record, no I don't think they'll be found and their internment won't be the first time the shafts they worked have become the tombs of lost miners.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/19/utah.mine/index.html

"It's likely that these miners may not be found," Rob Moore, vice president of mine operator Murray Energy, said Sunday.

Stickler told reporters he did not believe the time had come to give up. View the miners' profiles »

"People have survived extended periods of time without food," he said. "We have the food, the water, everything available that we can deliver to the miners as soon as we find them alive."