1/2/2011 - Five years since Sago Mine Disaster http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/Five_Years_Since_Sago_112787564.html
http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2011/01/02/the-sago-mine-disaster-jan-2... (Excerpt) it's always worth remembering these words from the last Sen. Robert C. Byrd, spoken on the Senate floor after Sago: "I've seen it all before. First, the disaster, then the weeping and then the outrage. But in a few weeks, when the outrage is gone, when the ink on the editorials is dry, everything returns to business as usual."
Charleston Gazette staff writer Ken Ward Jr., a native of Piedmont in Mineral County, W.Va. and a graduate of West Virginia University, has covered the Appalachian coal industry for nearly 20 years. Since starting at the Gazette in 1991, Ward, 41, has received numerous regional and national reporting awards for his coverage of strip mining, pulp mills, timbering and medical waste incinerators.
Ward is a three-time winner of the Scripps Howard Foundation's Edward J. Meeman Award for Environmental Reporting. He has also received the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, an Investigative Reporters and Editors medal, and an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship.
He is chairman of the Society of Environmental Journalists First Amendment Task Force, founded in 2002 to "to address freedom-of-information, right-to-know, and other news gathering issues of concern to the pursuit of environmental journalism
More: http://groups.google.com/group/bob-mooney/web/ken-ward-jr
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This clip is from:
PBS premiere: "Sustained Outrage"
November 02, 2007
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/expose_2007/blog/ken_ward_jr/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/2007/11/sustained-outrage.html (26 minutes)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxBUZtXzDa0 (5 minutes)
The tragedy of the Sago mine disaster garnered the intense attention of the media in early January 2006, but few reporters dug deeper to find out if the deaths of coal miners could have been prevented. Until reporter Ken Ward Jr. and The Charleston Gazette did just that, by pouring over the accident reports involving hundreds of miners. Ward found that most miners do not die in disasters, in the glare of the media spotlight, but one by one, in mining accidents that could have been avoided if mine operators had followed existing regulations and safety rules. "They don't have to die," Ward concluded. "That's what the reports show. That's what the record shows."
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Farmington Wv No. 9 Mine explosion, November 20,1968, 5:30 a.m.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j16nXFwkVvk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1pqUaXdJ6k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_B3SiKJuGE
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December 6, 1907, 10:28 a.m.
clip from Davitt McAteer's 1985 25-minutes video - Monongah 1907
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nq2ryRSdpk
100 year rememberance from Italy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFfEZ-8kVO4
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07339/839118-51.stm
(Excerpt) Tomorrow, Mr. D'Andrea's persistence will bear fruit as a large group of Italian government officials, diplomats, two Italian television crews and 300 people from Canada, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey and Chicago arrive in the small northern West Virginia town to mark the 100th anniversary of the disaster and demonstrate what the fallen men of Monongah mean to them. These visitors will listen as a bell, cast at the Marinelli Foundry in Agnone, Italy, and installed in Monongah's town square
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07332/837184-42.stm
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Farmington WV Coal Mine No. 9 Disaster 1968by needleabuse12,371 views
excellent!
thomasrodd 1 year ago