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Submitted on behalf of user "crutchy" #179, who writes:
"I don't seem to be able to use the 'Submit Story' feature at the moment... I just thought I'd flag a little saga currently unfolding near where I live. An open cut coal mine that supplies coal to a nearby 1600MW power station in Victoria, Australia, has been on fire for over a week. This could threaten electricity generation in the area and might have been deliberately set.
What might be more interesting is the lack of news media attention to it."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by crutchy on Monday February 17 2014, @09:00PM
we're lucky it's only covering a portion of the exposed coal batters... if we get another 40+ degrees C day i think the media might become more interested because the whole mine might literally go up in smoke, which will all but completely disable the power station (they might be able to truck some coal in from nearby mines)
it's quite a large mine... not the largest in the world by any means, but it's hard to grasp the scale of things from photos
the risk that i'm a little concerned about is that the affected coal seam is one of the largest in the world... it's about 30 metres thick and close to the surface, and i live right on top of it (along with many thousands of others all over the Gippsland region)... i've heard of what happened to Centralia in the US