Monday, August 20, 2007

Mining Disaster

As of this writing, it is reported that officials of Murray Energy, co-owner of Utah’s Crandall Canyon Mine, may soon declare the six miners trapped in an August 6 cave-in dead. Mine owners are also considering closing the area of the mine where the six miners likely died and making it a permanent memorial. But...owners also insist they will continue to dig in other areas of the mine.
Question? How will the other Crandall Canyon miners feel about resuming work on a mountain that has so far claimed three rescue workers and where six of their former buddies probably lie dead?
Maybe a better question is whether they should even be asked to go back to a mine that in the very near future will be part mine, part tomb and part memorial?
Glad it's a question I don't have to answer.
What do you think?

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