Massey CEO Don Blankenship (Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife)
Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship will not cooperate fully with a probe into the catastrophic mine explosion that killed 29 workers at the company's West Virginia coal mine last April, according to a story today by Charleston Gazette reporter, Ken Ward, Jr.
The explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine was the deadliest U.S. mining disaster since the 1970s. The story was front-page news at the time and for days afterward. But the national media spotlight shifted from the tragedy -- and from questions about Massey's poor safety record -- when the BP DeepWater Horizon rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico two weeks later.
We’ve just confirmed that retiring Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship no longer plans to appear next week to be questioned by state and federal investigators who are looking into the Upper Big Branch Mine Disaster.
via Breaking news: Blankenship to take the 5th « Coal Tattoo.
