Coal CEO Shock Allegation: Feds Replaced Vent at Mine, Causing Explosion, Blamed Me in Coverup
‘And because if they don’t tell the truth about it, coal miners remain at risk of natural gas ‘
May 12, 2017 9:09 AM
By Grabien Staff
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BLANKENSHIP: "But the big issue here we need to go back to every time is, Senator Manchin and the government have not told the truth about this explosion, and coal miners are at risk throughout West Virginia. They basically placed a Pennsylvania ventilation system on a West Virginia coal mine. I won’t go into why that’s important, except to say that in West Virginia there’s typically so little gas that you want to sweep it out of the mine. In Pennsylvania the systems are designed to capture the gas and sell it in many cases. And when they came in and changed the ventilation plan, over the objection of the miners, they put their lives at peril and they lost their lives and the government felt they need to cover that up."
