At least eight miners have been killed and 70 others are trapped in a series of mine accidents across China. From AFP: Four miners were killed in a gas explosion in a mine in western-most China’s Xinjiang region Thursday,...
Read MoreChina’s coal mine director has announced that coal mines in the country have gotten safer and will continue to do so: Accidents last year killed 2,631 coal miners, much lower than the peak of 6,995 deaths in 2002, said...
Read MoreNews of many major coal mine accidents never see the light of day due to cover-ups and local corruption. From the New York Times’ Sharon LaFraniere: For nearly three months, not a word leaked from the heart of China’s coal...
Read MoreFrom AP: Accidents in China’s notoriously dangerous coal mines killed nearly 3,800 people last year, state media reported Saturday — a toll that is a marked improvement from previous years, but still leaves China’s mines the world’s deadliest. A total of 3,786 were killed in mining accidents in 2007 — 20 percent lower than the […]
Read MoreFrom News.com.au: Energy-starved China will boost coal output by 400 million tonnes a year by 2010 by streamlining the industry and opening a string of new “super” pits, state media reported today. Widespread closures and mergers will leave fewer than 20 firms, including six to eight new “super coal production enterprises’ with a yield of […]
Read MoreFrom China.org.cn: The country’s top work safety official has admitted it will be tough to reduce the number of small coal mines to the targeted 10,000 by 2010. Li Yizhong, minister of the State Administration of Work Safety , said the goal is becoming more unattainable as some areas are setting up new mines despite […]
Read MoreFrom People’s Daily, via sohu.com, translated by CDT: The government won’t pay for the death of peasant workers who are working at illegal coal mines, said the Taiyuan Bureau of Land Resources. Instead, workers and mine owners will have to take responsibility for mine accidents and deaths, the bureau said in the Notice to Migrant […]
Read MoreThick dust is choking the air and settling over every living thing in China. Linfen, China is probably the most-polluted city in Earth. Farmers wheat crops are diminishing due to dark, sooty, and hollow kernels. Crops like cotton too fragile to survive, via Digital Journal: The cause of all this is coal pollution. But nobody […]
Read MoreFrom The Wall Street Journal: On the edge of this dusty farming hamlet, the massive smokestack of the half-finished Xinfeng Power Plant looms as a monument to China’s out-of-control demand for energy. Unlike two other power plants nearby, Xinfeng isn’t supposed to exist. China’s electricity regulators never authorized the $362 million coal-burning plant. But in […]
Read MoreFrom Shanghai Daily: It’s been another deadly year so far for China’s coal miners – though not as deadly as 2005. And for officials who invested in coal mines and colluded with owners to ignore safety violations, the first eight months of 2006 have put hundreds under investigation. Mine accidents in China killed 2,900 people […]
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