From Bic's link :
"... the Infowars article was an alarmist, far fetched,interpretation of the original announcement"
A few thoughts on this, the above is what I have come to expect from that group of sites, Infowars, Prisonplanet, Lewrockwell et al.
However, I have found Snopes is not much better in regards to using the smallest detail to refute a story that is actually true, there have been a couple of stories about Obama that can be verified by YouTube video that Snopes has said were untrue based on irrelevant details .
With the above in mind I leave this in the "neither confirmed nor denied" category.
One question the Snopes denial raises is , if "mine rescue" is one of the topics Why is the Russian Ministry of Natural resources not mentioned, or our own Mine Safety orgs ?