Thunder on the mountain
Subtitle: death at Massey and the dirty secrets behind big coal
By: Peter A. Galuszka
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
ISBN-13: 9781250000217; 9781250018083
Subjects: Coal trade; Coal mines and mining; Massey Energy (Firm)
Description: On April 5, 2010, an explosion ripped through Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Mine, killing twenty-nine coal miners. This tragedy was the deadliest mine disaster in the United States in forty years--a disaster that never should have happened. These deaths were rooted in the cynical corporate culture of Massey and its notorious former CEO Don Blankenship, and were part of a cycle of poverty, exploitation, and environmental abuse that has dominated Appalachia since coal was first discovered there. And the cycle continues unabated as coal companies bury the most insidious dangers deep underground and hide the true costs. But the disaster goes beyond West Virginia. It casts a global shadow, calling into bitter question why coal miners in the United States are sacrificed to erect cities on the other side of the world, and how the world's voracious appetite for energy is satisfied at such horrendous cost.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.