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Pictures

By Erin | Published: April 7, 2010

I’ve been looking through the pictures of the mine Dad and I visited in 2006 (Rivers Edge) while reading updates on the search for the four missing in Upper Big Branch. I remember how odd it felt to watch light disappear after a certain distance, to know that absolutely no sunlight could reach us. The [...]

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Just Sayin’

By Erin | Published: April 7, 2010

Sago, 2006, thirteen miners dead: non-union. Crandall Canyon, 2007, six miners and three rescuers dead: non-union. Upper Big Branch, 2010, at least twenty-five dead and four missing: non-union.

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Lost

By Erin | Published: April 6, 2010

I watched a video on CNN.com today about a man who died underground in the mine explosion, and his family talked about how he loved mining, how it was his life, his passion. And in the wake of a disaster like this, everyone wants to talk about how dangerous coal is, how it pollutes the [...]

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