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Coal Mine Fire Threatens Power

posted by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @05:53PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-in-my-backyard dept.

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."

[Ed. Note] we're working on fixing article submission, thanks for getting this to us via alternate means.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by mattie_p on Monday February 17 2014, @05:55PM

    by mattie_p (13) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:55PM (#896) Journal

    Also, Kill it with Fire!

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by dilbert on Monday February 17 2014, @05:57PM

    by dilbert (444) on Monday February 17 2014, @05:57PM (#898)
    I'd like to apologize for the lack of news coverage...the press were too busy covering a few dozen dead birds over a 5 square mile solar panel array in the middle of the desert.

    • (Score: 1) by Vanderhoth on Monday February 17 2014, @06:02PM

      by Vanderhoth (61) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:02PM (#905)

      Dude, you totally beat me to it... And now I'm getting Slow Down Cowboy!

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      "Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe

      • (Score: 1) by dilbert on Monday February 17 2014, @06:09PM

        by dilbert (444) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:09PM (#911)
        It's because you took the time to find an appropriate URL while I just threw the snark out as quickly as possible. That 'slow down cowboy' has hit me a few times as well.

    • (Score: 3, Funny) by regift_of_the_gods on Monday February 17 2014, @07:34PM

      by regift_of_the_gods (138) on Monday February 17 2014, @07:34PM (#979)

      Maybe they were dead canaries that fled the coal mine before it exploded?

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Vanderhoth on Monday February 17 2014, @06:00PM

    by Vanderhoth (61) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:00PM (#901)

    At least it's not killing birds like solar plants do ;)

    Funny how that discussion took place this morning. When it comes to renewable energy there are groups that jumps all over bird strikes for wind and frying birds for solar, but how bad oil and coal are are completely left out of the equation. And here we have a story about a huge fire, that seems to be being almost completely ignored in the media.

    Just ask yourself, "What would Fox News do?"

    http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/17/074 5210 [soylentnews.org]

    --
    "Now we know", "And knowing is half the battle". -G.I. Joooooe

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Monday February 17 2014, @07:57PM

      by Nerdfest (80) on Monday February 17 2014, @07:57PM (#1004)

      I'm sure most of the oil companies have a large media relations group whose job it is not only to make the oil companies look as good as is possible, and help in making sure their competition don't.