Blast leaves 21 workers dead in China coal mine

[Dogmudgeon]

Brief news item. Scant attention in the MSM. I missed this one, too.

From the http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25554187/">Associated Press, at MSNBC.

BEIJING - An apparent blast at a coal mine in northern China killed 21 workers, a state news agency reported Sunday.

Four miners were rescued by emergency workers, Xinhua News Agency said. Seven managed to escape on their own after the accident Saturday at the Wujiu coal mine outside Datong city in Shanxi province, it said.

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China's mines are the world's deadliest, with explosions, cave-ins and floods killing nearly 3,800 people last year.

Bold format by me. That's about 3/4 of the total death count per year these days -- it was over 100,000 per year worldwide as recently as the 1950s.

--p!

[NNadir]

1. This is pretty close to the immediate death toll at Chernobyl.

I'm sure all of our anti-nukes will spend the next thirty years talking about this topic endlessly whenever a coal plant is proposed anywhere on earth.

Or maybe not:

Situation Grave at Chinese Coal Mine: 172 Human Beings Missing Underground.

Situation Grave at Ukrainian Coal Mine, At Least 100 Killed.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/8/6/23254/76874/287/367885">Dangerous Fossil Fuel Accident Causes Earthquake.

65 Mexican coal miners trapped in mine.
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In the last case, the situation was indeed grave. They never even bothered to recover the bodies of the lost men.

The number of anti-nukes on this website who give a rat's ass about any of these cases is ZERO.

The number of anti-nukes on this site who will bring this case up when somebody offers hand waving about wonderful IGCC and theoretical sequestration plants is also zero.

[Dead_Parrot]

2. Another 11 here:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gX2tMEjydnQXSaC_GW3lPzewgKaQ

And one in PA: http://online.indianagazette.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32442&Itemid=52

His name was William Pardee.

[Dead_Parrot]

3. kicking

for 33 people almost nobody appears to give a shit about.

[madokie]

4. and your concern is based on the thought you think it supports your ideas,

not because you are concerned for the people involved

[Dead_Parrot]

5. Cute. nt