This video from the USA is called Sago Mine Tragedy Remembered.
From ABC News in the USA:
Mine Owner Faces Old Foes After CollapseYeah right. Maybe Mr Murray also prefers creationism to evolution biology, snake oil or snake handling to doctors … [Talking about creationism, it is now being promoted among US soldiers in Iraq].Bob Murray, Staunch Critic of Unions and Environmentalists, Rebuked for Comments
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Aug. 8, 2007
Bob Murray, chairman of Murray Energy, does not have a reputation for keeping his opinions to himself.
As six miners who work at a Utah coal mine that his company co-owns and operates remained trapped 1,500 feet underground Tuesday, Murray was on the offensive, insisting it was an earthquake and not dangerous mining procedures that had led to the collapse.
Murray, a former miner who survived two accidents on the job before mortgaging his home to found his company, has in the past taken on politicians pushing for more stringent safety measures, the environmental lobby and labor unions.
In the aftermath of Monday’s collapse at Crandall Canyon mine in Emery County, Utah, some of those old foes, including a U.S. senator, have offered new rebukes.
After last year’s Sago mine disaster in which 12 men were trapped and killed in West Virginia, Murray opposed legislation by lawmakers there and in his home state of Ohio that would require miners to wear emergency tracking devices.
Murray called the proposed legislation “extremely misguided” and accused the politicians of “playing politics with my employees’ safety,” the Columbus Dispatch reported.
Before the mine collapse, the businessman was most well known as a staunch detractor of global warming.
“The science of global warming is suspect,” Murray told the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in June.
The two accidents which Mr Murray himself had while still a miner should have made him more sensitive about workers’ safety. Unfortunately, it seems love of money has replaced feelings for fellow humans.
Update: here.
Miners killed in Indiana: here.
Lack of workers’ safety in Britain: here.
