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Old 22nd Dec 2007, 09:05
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Another coal mine

And as if there isn't enough coal being dug out of the ground in China to feed their billowing factory chimneys, there was a good photo in yesterday's SCMP of the top of one of their mountaintops being blown to smithereens, (to the tune of 6 million cubic metres of soil and rock), for the purpose of exposing yet another seam of black gold.

As a consequence, we'll no doubt continue to be living with the resultant burnt pollutants here in Hong Kong every time a northerly wind drags them down over the coast, (read: pretty much every winter, all winter long), for years to come.
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