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  • Pa. coal town above mine fire claims massive fraud

    03/09/2010 5:39:41 PM PST · by JoeProBono · 20 replies · 917+ views
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    ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The few remaining residents of a Pennsylvania coal town decimated by a 48-year-old underground mine fire claim in court papers that a "massive fraud" is being perpetrated by parties seeking to grab the mineral rights to hundreds of millions of dollars worth of anthracite coal. In a filing late Monday, four property owners and the borough of Centralia asked a state appeals court to block Pennsylvania officials from seizing their homes. The state condemned the homes in the early 1990s but only recently moved to oust the remaining holdouts. The state's attorney on Tuesday dismissed the residents'...
  • Darvaza: The Door to Hell

    05/17/2008 2:47:52 PM PDT · by Ultra Sonic 007 · 38 replies · 3,083+ views
    This place in Uzbekistan is called by locals “The Door to Hell”. It is situated near the small town of Darvaz. The story of this place lasts already for 35 years. Once the geologists were drilling for gas. Then suddenly during the drilling they have found an underground cavern, it was so big that all the drilling site with all the equipment and camps got deep deep under the ground. None dared to go down there because the cavern was filled with gas. So they ignited it so that no poisonous gas could come out of the hole, and since...