Posted on 11/21/2009 1:03:51 AM PST by myknowledge
BEIJING — An explosion at a coal mine in northeast China early Saturday killed 31 workers and left 82 trapped, state-run China Central Television (CCTV) said, the latest deadly incident to hit the industry.
The blast happened at 2:30 am (1830 GMT Friday) at a mine in Heilongjiang province, according to a statement issued by the State Administration of Work Safety.
A total of 528 miners were working in the pit, near Hegang City, when the blast occurred, the state administration said.
The previous toll given by CCTV was 15 dead and 114 trapped.
The mine is owned by the Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group, based in provincial capital Harbin.
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RIP.
God Bless the trapped victims! Lord Jesus do miracles for these poor men, save them Lord!!!!
"See? Coal mines kill more than Moslems in the military!"
When he announced his intentions to regulate coal-fired power plants into the ground (and his support for "green" policies in the U.S.), and when he continued the "China first" policies of the Bush administration, the market responded.
And China is building one or two new coal-fired power plants a week.
Hence the pell-mell rush for more Chinese coal.
Hence the unsafe conditions.
Obama's fault.
Cheers!
See my post #6.
China also has no petroleum reserves, so in addition to using coal to fire power plants and for industrial processes, China has built a few coal-to-liquid-fuel conversion plants, and will probably build more, hell or high water be damned.
I was wondering what they did with the Obama Protestors they arrested put them in the mines then bury them alive ?
hmmmmm makes one wonder
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HEGANG, China (Reuters) - The death toll from China's latest coal mine disaster reached 92 on Sunday, state television said, and hopes dimmed that more survivors would emerge after a gas blast at a colliery in the nation's far northeast.
Chinese television news said 528 workers were in the mine at Hegang in Heilongjiang province when the blast erupted in the early hours of Saturday, and 420 had been rescued by Sunday.
Some 16 miners remained trapped or unaccounted for, the evening news broadcast said.
Reporters in Hegang were taken by officials to see 20 or so rescue workers descending into a tunnel still belching smoke, preparing to scour tunnels for survivors or bodies.
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The Xinxing mine in Hegang lies near China's border with Russia...
How near? Near enough to slip across the border during the chaos of yet another mining accident?
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