Monday, January 03, 2011
McAteer Wrapping Up UBB Investigation
WEST VIRGINIA....
J. Davitt McAteer, the man appointed by former Governor Joe Manchin to head up the investigation into the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion, will head underground later this week for a look at part of the mine. McAteer says his investigative team is also wrapping up interviews, but it's unfortunate that several key people, many of them Massey Energy executives, including former chairman and CEO Don Blankenship, refused to answer their questions. McAteer says the big task ahead is reviewing testimony from nearly 300 interviews along with the evidence and information they collected from inside the mine. McAteer says he plans to release their report by the end of the first quarter of this year.
J. Davitt McAteer, the man appointed by former Governor Joe Manchin to head up the investigation into the Upper Big Branch Mine explosion, will head underground later this week for a look at part of the mine. McAteer says his investigative team is also wrapping up interviews, but it's unfortunate that several key people, many of them Massey Energy executives, including former chairman and CEO Don Blankenship, refused to answer their questions. McAteer says the big task ahead is reviewing testimony from nearly 300 interviews along with the evidence and information they collected from inside the mine. McAteer says he plans to release their report by the end of the first quarter of this year.# posted by Homer Owens @ 10:49 PM 
