Wednesday, August 15, 2007

 

Daily Update 08/15/2007

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Efforts to free six coal miners trapped when a Utah mine collapsed nine days ago plodded forward Wednesday, with mine officials hoping to break through a third bore hole that might finally yield some evidence of the men.

Drilling started on the 1,415-foot-deep hole late Monday, and is about 1,300 feet west of a second hole drilled late last week. Ghostly video images from that cavern showed piles of rubble, including fallen coal and abandoned equipment.

Meanwhile, frustrations mounted over the slow pace of the digging and more questions arose over whether the company had engaged in risky mining methods that may have left parts of the mine dangerously unstable.

Some mining companies consider the "retreat mining" methods used at Crandall Canyon so dangerous they will leave behind coal rather than risk the safety of their workers.

Video images taken early Tuesday showed miners working to clear a heavily damaged mine shaft. They were only a third of the way to the presumed location of the trapped miners.

A mining executive estimated the digging would take up to another week.

"It's not fast enough for me," said Bob Murray, chief of Murray Energy Corp., co-owner and operator of the Crandall Canyon mine. "It's very painful."

Miners had advanced another 50 feet in the rubble-filled tunnel by Tuesday evening but still have more than 1,200 feet to go, Murray said.

Around the clock, shifts of 80 miners are digging and helping to remove the rubble. Much of their time is spent shoring up walls and ceilings before a 65-ton machine can safely resume clawing away at the rubble-filled mine shaft.

"We're doing the very best we can as fast as we can," said Richard Stickler, head of the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration. "You couldn't get another person into that working area."

The mine may have been made more dangerous by what Murray acknowledged was decades of digging using retreat mining, a common though sometimes dangerous method in which miners yank out a mine's pillars, grabbing the last of the coal.

Murray said the retreat mining took place before he took over the mine a year ago. He said no retreat mining was taking place at the time of the collapse, which he insists was triggered by an earthquake.

Government seismologists say there was no earthquake and that readings on seismometers actually came from the collapse.

Mine-safety experts say two sections of the Crandall Canyon Mine that collapsed in March may have been an early warning sign. They questioned whether the company — and the government agency that oversees its work — should have closed the mine then.

Instead, operators moved to another section and continued chipping away at the coal.

"Knowing all the issues, they made a conscious decision" to keep mining "because they wanted to recover that coal," said Tony Oppegard, a former top federal and state of Kentucky mine safety official who represents miners as a private attorney in Lexington, Kentucky.

Experts say Crandall Canyon was unstable for a combination of reasons.

The section the miners were working was being carved out in a pattern like streets on a city block, leaving pillars to hold up the ceiling. Officials at the Mine Safety and Health Administration say they had approved a plan to allow "retreat" mining there.

But experts question that decision because the area is bordered by two outer sections that had already been mined and collapsed, using a technique that leaves behind unstable rubble.

That means the last pillars were bearing much of the weight of the roughly 2,000 feet of mountain above, and as they were pulled down, the pressure on the remaining pillars would have increased.

Larry Grayson, who worked in coal mining for nine years until 1984 and is now a professor of energy and mineral engineering at Pennsylvania State University, said retreat mining is so risky that the mining company he worked for would not use it between two sections of rubble.

Murray has said that federal regulators and an outside mining engineering firm had signed off on the canyon's mining operation.


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While Britney Spears' attorney was railing against the media, Kevin Federline's attorney was doing some of the same -- from behind a bank of microphones.

Mark Vincent Kaplan echoed Wasser's sentiments outside of court today, agreeing that all matters of custody between Brit and K-Fed should be kept private and out of the media -- particularly things like their respective schedules. Given Britney's late night party habits, the paps know where the boys won't be -- with her!

When Kaplan was asked if the Fed-Ex is worried about his kids being in danger, Kaplan said simply, "Kevin is concerned that the more time the children are with him, he feels the more insulated they are from risks that would otherwise be possibly visited upon them."

While Kaplan wouldn't get into what he meant by "risks," he probably meant this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and ...

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Today: Plentiful sunshine. Very hot. High around 100F. Winds SW at 10 to 20 mph.

Tonight: Mainly clear. Low 76F. Winds SSW at 5 to 10 mph.

Tomorrow: A mix of clouds and sun with the chance of an isolated thunderstorm in the afternoon. High 92F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

Tomorrow night: Partly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Low 69F. Winds NE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30%.

Friday: Plenty of sun. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s.

Saturday: Mix of sun and clouds. Highs in the low 90s and lows in the low 70s.

Sunday: Partly cloudy with a stray thunderstorm. Highs in the mid 80s and lows in the low 70s.

My Daily Horoscope (Virgo)
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Quickie:
There will be some minor setbacks in store for you today, but nothing too serious.

Overview:
You're inspired to clean some corner of your home or office that doesn't usually get much love. Your positive energy makes it easier and considerably more fun than you would have expected.

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