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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: 2, Interesting) by Vanderhoth on Monday February 17 2014, @06:00PM
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]
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Nerdfest on Monday February 17 2014, @07:57PM
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.