Massey Energy Co.’s chief operating officer will not be joining the company’s new owner, Alpha Natural Resources after all. Alpha spokesman Ted Pile confirmed the company isn’t retaining Chris Adkins as originally planned. Abingdon, Va.-based Alpha completed its $7.1 billion takeover of Massey earlier this week. Adkins has been criticized since the April 5, 2010 explosion that killed 29 miners at the Upper Big Branch mine in southern West Virginia.