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Report says Crandall Canyon collapses were result of 'inadequate design'

Retreat mining was the cause of the disaster, and Murray knew full well this was the cause, not the phantom earthquake he was so determined to blame the fiasco on.

Looks like Murray and his holdings are in for one helluva wrongful death suits from the families of the victims, and rightly so...

Part of this disaster rests squarely on the Bush administration and its penchant to downgrade any regulation that might impact the oil, mining, pharma and banking industries...

Murray may well now be the most untrusted individual in his industry and with government regulators.

More than the families suing the ass off Murray and his holdings, the government regulators need to inspect all his holdings with a fine tooth comb because what he allowed at one mining operation he would have allowed at all other mining operations.

No more profit-motivated death and carnage of the innocent hard working middle class Americans. NO MORE!

Well, let's see... Put a mining company executive in charge of mine safety...and gee whiz! Mining Disaster!

Put a Pharma lobbyist in charge of the Food & Drug Admin...and gee whiz! Poisonous toys and food!

Put an airline lobbyist in charge of the FAA and...gee whiz! Thousands of inspections go undone, cancelling hundreds of flights...

Put a horsie lawyer in charge of FEMA, and...gee whiz! Heckuva job, Brownie!

Put the guy who lobbies for banks in charge of bank policy, and...gee whiz! Subprime mortgage meltdown!

And the freemarketeers continue to tell us that "regulations are bad" and the "market will regulate itself". So when it comes down to rich people protecting us, or elected officials protecting us, do you still want to rely on those who have profited from all of these disasters?

And Utahns continue to elect the people who make it happen. So we have dead miners, poisonous toys, uninspected airplanes, foreclosures aplenty, and no disaster response. But at least we ain't socialists, right Cletus? Yeeeha!

I just hope the families receive the closure they deserve and that those responsible take responsibility. The memorial is well deserved.

once you start taking suports down, THAT is a recipy for trouble,. murry should know this better than anyone he desirves what ever he gets.?

Well looks like we all know that Murray was telling bold face lies to protect his butt and wallet by placing the blame on an earthquake. Well I hope these families can find some peace from all this at last. But, I'm also some are quite angry at the cover up and all the lies from the Old Man Murray. Now to afraid to show his face.

Well that settles it, one man, with the help of one State is wholly and clearly responsible for every woe this nation is enduring. Anonymous and Senhor Tambor got it nailed down. The other 49 States and its citizens should fix Nation by invading the White House and Utah. I did not know Bush and Utah controlled this Nation. Sorry, I can't make the A to Z connection.

Does being responsible for people's deaths make you a murder?

Remember how the Deseret News made Murray out to be the victim?

The miners should recive title to the mines as compensation and they should organize them into cooperative business with the mines as owners.

"Mine Safety Agency Bespatters its Own Image." It's not a headline from last week after the report on MSHA and its failures leading up to and during the Crandall Canyon disaster, but a headline from July 11, 1984 in the Louisville (Ky.)Courier Journal. At that time, MSHA was expanding "cooperative enforcement." During this time there was also a CNN documentary entitled, "Mine Safety, Death and the Bureaucracy," alleging lax and corrupt enforcement of the mine safety laws.
Just making a "historical" note for the record.