The Westray Mine Disaster

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Today is a short little episode where I will be talking about the Weatray Mine Disaster. Where corporate greed and government incompetence signed the death certificate of 26 miners one day when they thought they were just going in for another regular day at work.

Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/westray-remembered-explosion-killed-26-n-s-coal-miners-in-1992-1.1240122

https://museumofindustry.novascotia.ca/what-see-do/coal-and-grit/tragedy-westray

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/westray-disaster

https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2393&context=scholarly_works

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