GRITtv: Jeff Biggers: Beyond Blankenship

As the community around the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia mourns its dead and papers report that miners are not being allowed to attend their friends' funerals, S&P Equity Research upgraded the company's stock from a "hold" to a "buy."

Just another example of profits before people, notes Jeff Biggers, author of Reckoning at Eagle Creek: The Secret Legacy of Coal in the Heartland. Biggers joins us via Skype to talk about the tragedy at the Massey Energy mine and the legacy of coal, and warns that while it might be easy to point fingers at Massey's egregious violations of safety rules and its grandstanding CEO Don Blankenship, the entire mining culture is fraught with the same problems.

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[henchman696]

Great segment very informative. You need more longer clips like this one.