{"id":523012,"date":"2010-04-09T18:55:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011570901_westvirginiaminersdeadfromblast.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-09T18:55:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:55:12","slug":"west-virginia-miners-dead-from-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/523012","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia miners dead from blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mine owners, special-interest groups to blame<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Greed and special interest may be killing coal miners. [\u201cSearchers head back into mine,\u201d News, April 9.]<\/p>\n<p>There are two ways to mine: There is the traditional underground method and the surface method, neither of which are a safe industry. The underground method has an inherent chance of endangering human life, but is \u201cbetter for the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The owners of these mines have one thing in mind, and that is profit. Realistically, the cost and environmental damage is considered before the life of a human being. Before you get all environmental on me, nearly all surface mining can be recycled \u2014 and many do get recycled. It again comes to the cost of cleaning up the surface mines after their use is spent. This cleaning-up process provides jobs in all related fields, therefore miners could continue to work after the mine has run its course without contending the dangers of underground working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>There are environmental special interests such as the Natural Resources Defense Council, which has fought surface mining in Tennessee and elsewhere. Its video sounds like funeral music; its interest is the Earth and it could care less about the safety and lives of miners deep within underground mines of the Appalachian Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, both the mine owners and special-interests groups should be blamed for the West Virginia mining deaths. What is the life of a human being worth?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Jim Morris, Renton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mine owners, special-interest groups to blame Greed and special interest may be killing coal miners. [\u201cSearchers head back into mine,\u201d News, April 9.] There are two ways to mine: There is the traditional underground method and the surface method, neither of which are a safe industry. The underground method has an inherent chance of endangering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}