{"id":407,"date":"2010-04-06T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=407"},"modified":"2010-04-06T10:59:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:59:43","slug":"recent-mine-explosions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=407","title":{"rendered":"Recent Mine Explosions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the recent deaths in the West Virginia and China mines isn&#8217;t enough to make us switch to alternative energy, I don&#8217;t know what is.<\/p>\n<p>China said by the end of the year 8,000 less efficient and less safe coal mines will be closed. Their mines are less safe because they don&#8217;t have the OSHA requirements that we do. However, the United States does face disasters in mines still as shown in <a title=\"NY Times - Many Have Died In US Mines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/06\/us\/06disasters.html\" target=\"_blank\">recent and past events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Alternative energy like wind and solar don&#8217;t nearly have the dangers that mining coal does (and oil drilling for that matter). Alternatives saves more lives and reduces climate change, which saves our planet.<\/p>\n<p>If we do keep using coal (signs point to yes), we should most definately enact more restrictions on companies who mine. Massey Energy got fined $382,000 last year, <a title=\"Washington Post - 25 Dead In WV Mine Blast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/04\/05\/AR2010040503877.html?wprss=rss_metro\/va\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Washington Post<\/a>, for safety violations, allowing coal dust to pile up, and not having sufficient fire gear. That shouldn&#8217;t happen in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2007, I said the same thing with the collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine. There should have been more harsher regulations in place. I even blamed Bush for easing safety enforcements which could have prevented deaths in that incident (and, perhaps, the recent incident).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the recent deaths in the West Virginia and China mines isn&#8217;t enough to make us switch to alternative energy, I don&#8217;t know what is. China said by the end of the year 8,000 less efficient and less safe coal mines will be closed. Their mines are less safe because they don&#8217;t have the OSHA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,24,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-in-the-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}