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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: 3, Informative) by beardedchimp on Monday February 17 2014, @06:05PM

    by beardedchimp (393) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:05PM (#908)

    Ha! That fire is but a youth stepping on my lawn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain [wikipedia.org] has been burning for 6000 years.

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by dilbert on Monday February 17 2014, @06:06PM

    by dilbert (444) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:06PM (#909)
    Apparently underground coal fires are not uncommon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_seam_fire [wikipedia.org]
    • (Score: 1) by beardedchimp on Monday February 17 2014, @06:10PM

      by beardedchimp (393) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:10PM (#913)

      Yep. The chinese are experts at putting them out since they started hundreds of them.

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by mhajicek on Monday February 17 2014, @06:55PM

    by mhajicek (51) on Monday February 17 2014, @06:55PM (#943)

    You mean since the world was created? Wow!

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