Don Blankenship said Wednesday the arrests of actress Daryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and 29 others a day earlier do nothing to further the debate about coal mining. Blankenship says he’d rather debate Hansen and has accepted an offer from West Virginia Media to air a debate Thursday.
Hansen, however, has offered to participate in a public discussion Wednesday, but not an adversarial debate.
Hansen, Hannah and others were cited for impeding traffic and obstructing an officer after they blocked a road near a Massey processing plant in southern West Virginia. Their complaints centered on mountaintop removal, which involves blasting away ridgetops.
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