Utah mine owner "hurt by criticism"; says the mountain is "EVIL" & he's out of there.

[Bluebear]

Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy Corp., says he is hurt by criticism he did not do enough to find the miners.


HUNTINGTON, Utah (CNN) -- Rescuers trying to find six miners will begin boring a sixth hole down into Utah's Crandall Canyon mine Friday, and the search will stop if no signs of life are found, the coal mine's co-owner said.

"This is the last hole," Bob Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, said Wednesday evening. "If we don't find anybody alive in that hole, there's nowhere else that anyone ... would know where to drill."

Murray said work on the sixth hole, which will go down into the area where the miners were known to be working when the mine collapsed August 6, should be completed by Saturday.

However, he expressed little optimism that the effort would be successful, saying it was "totally unlikely" any signs of the miners will be found. Murray also said that he has already filed paperwork with federal regulators to permanently close and seal the Utah mine.

"I will never come back to that evil mountain," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/23/utah.mine/

[eleny]

1. Oh, so he's the wounded party

:eyes:

[Bluebear]

2. And the mountain is an evildoer. nt

[Disturbed]

5. Yeah, that mountain is "alive and evil". It hates him.

It's not his fault. This evil mountain killed miners. Will his defense at trial be "The evil mountain is to blame" or that he is insane?

[Dr.Phool]

16. If the mountain is so evil, name it Murray Mountain. Or Mount Murray.

[China_cat]

12. But it's so evil he wants to open new mines in it?

Asshole.

[Sal Minella]

18. Maybe the W35 bridge had a wicked troll living under it... yeah, that's it.

[Bluebear]

21. Those evil Norwegians!

[SoCalDem]

23. Didn't you hear?? It was the evil pooping pigeons.. n/t

[FooFootheSnoo]

40. no, don't blame it on the trolls

it was the dwarfs!! They don't take kindly to people being in their mountains.

[BurtWorm]

6. The miners just died. Their families just lost a member.

But HE has suffered criticism because of an EVIL mountain. Poor bastidge!

:crazy:

[CatWoman]

3. evil is what evil does

and evil knows evil.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. I saw his interview yesterday on MSNBC in which he was decrying the "evil" mountain...

What a ninny!:eyes:

I have my suspicions that he never WANTED the miners to be recovered (for fear that they would speak out against him and his shitty, unsafe mine).

[spinbaby]

7. I think two may have been illegal aliens

Two of the missing are very young (22 & 23) recent immigrants from Mexico.

[Bluebear]

9. 'What part of ILLEGAL don't you understand?'

:sarcasm:

[Cooley Hurd]

14. That's been my suspicion, also...

:grr:

[Binka]

30. That And He Doesn't Want Any Inspectors Combing Over The Mine

Did you hear his rude comment to a man at the funeral who handed him a buck because Murray has been such a cheap ass? "Son, you need to find the Lord." What sanctimonious claptrap from a fucking murdering greed head.

Also Prez SuckASSBush signed into law just yesterday new legislation making it easier for mine owners to circumvent even more regulations. :mad:

Bridges collapsing, mine tragedies, scaffolding falling, fireman killed.....this is what happened back in the glided age as well. No protection for the working man or woman. Have I mentioned how fucking much I hate these people today?

[Bluebear]

31. Bingo, my love. nt

[rateyes]

8. Evil is an anagram for

vile. And, that's what Murray is. I hope all the family's end up owning everything he has. What was evil is the way he mined the coal.

[YOY]

10. So...did he work Al Gore into the equation?

n/t

[I_Will]

11. ...the sixth hole, which will go down into the area where the miners were known to be working...

um, shouldn't that have been where the *first* hole was drilled 17 days ago? Or am I mis-reading this?

[Cooley Hurd]

15. Great question...

:shrug:

[Ghost in the Machine]

24. That was my first question too...

Yeah, I lost my car keys down the street, but I'm looking here because the light is better... :eyes:

[malaise]

13. Is that a diamond on the ring?

What a cold coal heart.

[Jack Rabbit]

17. He should be more concerned about criticism that he didn't do enough to protect miners

He should be more concerned about criticism that he didn't do enough to protect miners before the bump.

Bob Murray needs to be put in the slammer as as a repeat offender of mine safety standards. He must never be permitted to run a coal mine again.

[Subdivisions]

19. It's all the remote back-country mountain's fault this happened to him. n/t

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

20. Welcome To Reality Dipshit!

I said those miners were dead from Day 1. Hope and a rescue effort were fine and all, but these people should have faced the facts from the moment of the collapse, that it was not only likely, but HIGHLY Likely, that their loved ones were killed instantenously, or even if they survived, would have died within hours if not a couple of days.

[SoCalDem]

22. Typical republican-think.

Nothing is ever their fault
Everyone's out to "get them"
They get their "feelings" hurt, but never balk at attacking others with abandon
They are overly eager to "move forward" .."put it behind them".. "move on".. "look to the future"..."get over it"..

It's all just a game with them...they shatter people's lives and just kick it all off like wet underwear, and keep on walking..

[bleedingheart]

25. I watched him on TV last night for the first time...he is batshit crazy...

he prattles on like a crazy old man...it is so hard to believe that he had any brains to create a company ...

[spinbaby]

39. Senility, you know

Or maybe not-he had that conversation with a squirrel years ago.

[Raksha]

26. So first he blames God and now the "evil" mountain?

That has to be a new low even by RW buck-passing standards!

[BlooInBloo]

27. Better than being "hurt by falling mine roof".

[brentspeak]

28. Yeah, it's the mountain's fault. Evil, bad mountain.

I want to see this Murray guy behind bars.

[treestar]

29. Is the evil SOB hurt by any criticism regarding the safety of the mine

in the first place?

Reminds me of Georgie and Laurie saying that Iraq hurt them real bad.

:nopity:

[LiberalAndProud]

32. Right . . . the MOUNTAIN is evil.

wow.
just wow.

[HughMoran]

33. Personalizing a mountain that HE chose to dig into as "evil"?

He was the evil person who chose to throw safety concerns to the winds...

[Shine]

34. How can a mountain be "evil"?? He probably thinks it "hates" him, too.

cuz it's all about HIM, you know. :eyes: forget about those poor miners and their families....

[proud patriot]

35. he's a real piece of work that one

the mt is evil run away run away

[peekaloo]

36. Brokebank Mountain: I cain't quit yew as long as there's a buck to be made.

maybe they should drill a hole in his head to look for signs of sanity.

[killbotfactory]

37. The mine was scheduled to close in 2008

This fucker bought the mine for pennies because it's resources were exhausted and scheduled to close. Apparently, he had already decided to retreat mine the place to scrape out every ounce of value from it, and has now killed people thanks to his reckless greed.

[Bluebear]

38. And is acting like he is walking away from a FORTUNE instead of a spent mine! nt

[baldguy]

41. Ignoring health & safety regulations

And sacrificing people for profits is evil.