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Now why aren’t we all in line to give them 20 million smacks in the face?

The Environmental Protection Agency has finally penalized the giant Massey Corporation, an enormously wealthy mining company doing serious business in Kentucky, West Virginia and elsewhere. They apparently found in excess of 4,500 places where mine runoff had tainted nearby waters. News to the you and me. Daily life to the locals.

Of course, I feel like we’ve seen this before. To this day, Exxon has not payed up for the damage done at the Valdez oil spill. They made separate settlements with other parties (with various catches) but never paid the court’s remaining fine, much less the original. I’m predicting repeated appeals and a chopping of the fines to a even more negligible amount.

Make you sick? Not as sick as the people who’ve been drinking those tainted waters, I bet. If you don’t already know, mine runoff is nasty, nasty, nasty stuff. Real bad. Read on…

Mining Giant to Pay $20 Million EPA Fine

On a design note, am I the only one who sees two topless mountains with a fire blazing between them in the Massey logo? Either some designer was very cunning or his sub-conscience was working overtime. Take a moment to Google mountaintop removal images. It’s as though the logo really is meant to be a very literal symbol of the corporation’s methods.

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