The owner [Alpha Natural Resources] of Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia [Massey mine] where 29 miners died last year in a violent explosion, is ready to pay $209.5 million to settle civil and criminal claims related to the blast...One big question remains: Will Don Blankenship, whose mine-coal-at-any-cost business philosophy is seen by many as ultimately responsible for the disaster that killed the 29 men, and who is currently the subject of a criminal investigation into the disaster, be held personally responsible?