members are very close to the miners‚ and they will tend to be emotional. The employees will also be upset because if it were under different circumstances it could have been them trapped in the mine. The potential needs of the families would require more details about the accident that occurred to their relatives while at work. The families will need to know the exact time the incident took place‚ persons trapped in the mine‚ rescue measures being taken to save the miners and what is being done to
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Canada’s argument to the Ministry of Health that coalmining in Dunsmuir Coalmine‚ Belleville NS needs to be shut down as a moral good to the miners‚ in consideration of their health. I will argue‚ using virtue theory and utilitarian philosophy‚ that coalmining in the town should not be shut down‚ as shutting it down would not be ultimately beneficial to the miners and their families‚ and therefore would not be a moral good. Firstly‚ I will summarise Health Canada’s argument for the shutting down of
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and the ongoing substance abuse. The first problem commonly associated with the Appalachian region is the unemployment secondary to the downfall of the coal industry. A lot of families in the Appalachian region come from a long generation of coal miners. Sons followed in the footsteps of their dads and grandfathers straight out of high school‚ which is another reason why the unemployment rate is so high where coal mining is such a predominant occupation. These men being laid off have nothing higher
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2010. Many people from all around the world sat glued to their television sets watching a story that most feared would have a tragic ending. The Minera San Esteban Primera Mining Company had a job ahead of them that no company every wants to face. 33 miners were trapped in a small copper mine that had collapsed in northern Chile and they had to report this news to the families‚ employees‚ and eventually the world. The minters were trapped 300 meters below ground with very little food‚ oxygen or water
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Yet only time will tell if he truly will revitalize coal. He has put the image of “energy independence” in the mind of hopeful families and miners‚ yet what does that really look like? Potentially scraping EPA regulations that extend to the Clean Water Act‚ putting clean drinking water in danger (nationalgeographic).Even if the coal industry is restored it still will have to compete with natural
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Alpha Natural Resources in 2011. Twenty-Nine of the thirty one miners at the site were killed by the explosion. A state funded independent investigation would later find Massey Energy directly responsible for the accident. (www.sourcewatch.org) The explosion was ignited by high methane levels being a contributed factor. You have to ventilate the air in the coal mines so methane levels do not get high and cause an accident. The miners failed to do so‚ and they paid for it. They also did not rock dust
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He has made proposals to reduce the water use in California by building tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to increase the supply of water. One of the reasons California is in a drought is because of our history of dealing with the gold miners using hydraulic mining to mine gold‚ and damming the Tuolumne River to provide water for San Francisco. Although the use of of water has benefitted farmers and cities‚ it has not been in the best interest of the state because it has harmed the Native
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On the stairway leading to a courtyard below‚ two young girls hasten off to an adventure. The women overhear one of them saying‚ u0093Well‚ come along‚ then‚ and letu0092s leave the young things to their knitting.u0094 .......The pale woman‚ Mrs. Horace (Grace) Ansley‚ recognizes the voice as that of her daughter‚ Barbara. The other woman‚ Mrs. Delphin (Alida) Slade‚ says‚ u0093Thatu0092s what our daughters think of us.u0094 .......Mrs. Ansley says the girls were really speaking of mothers in general
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their own advantage” (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Anything that made the individual rise above others was considered immoral‚ by this thought the weak pulled down the stronger by moral judgment. This theory can be applied to the works of Horace Mann through the construction of Thomas Brudenbrook‚ the main character of his book who tries to
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news services‚ 2010). Their families‚ friends‚ and co-workers were worried frantically about their safety‚ and not being able to reach the miners left everyone at unease. The Rescuers and the Chilean Copper president’s came together to find a resolution as to the cause of this situation and how to rescue their employees. Families and co-workers of these miners have questions that wanted immediate answers‚ and it is the companies responsibly to
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