Thunder on the mountain death at Massey and the dirty secrets behind big coal
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 cultur...
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Morgantown : West Virginia University Press,
2014.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Thunder on the mountain : |b death at Massey and the dirty secrets behind big coal / |c Peter A. Galuszka ; foreword by Denise Giardina. |
| 250 | |a First paperback edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a xxv, 300 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 21 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a With a new foreword. | ||
| 500 | |a Previously published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes notes and bibliographical references (pages 290-300). | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Death at Upper Big Branch -- Renegade CEO -- Up the Hollow -- The roots of Massey Energy -- Big Coal's ugly and bright future -- Strip-mining on steroids -- Dark as a dungeon -- Coal country culture wars -- Pulling the trigger on Don -- Asia's appetite -- Alpha's rotten apple. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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