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Simon Yap's List: coal mining in China
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Nov 29, 09
These workers do not know their basic human rights, right to having safety measures in place, right to a better compensation, and right to basic safety equipment, while the big companies make the profits and the city folks enjoy the benefits of electricity.
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Each day when he sees the rubble, he's reminded of his loss — his son died inside the coal mine, along with 71 others, in a gas explosion two years ago.
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How much money and effort Beijing chooses to put into controlling the emissions will be a critical factor in global warming. If China doesn't act aggressively, its addiction to coal will have a profound effect, not just domestically but on the rest of the world as well.
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Nov 29, 09
Some statistics on the number of fatalities in mining industry. Take 2008, there were 29 deaths in the US, while there was a staggering 3,200 deaths in China. The china number is not one that draws credibility. Compensation for lives is not commensurate. The respect for basic rights is not acknowledged.
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Nov 29, 09
It hard to find any information about any strategy by the Chineses government to prevent such accidents from occurring. Events keep repeating themselves. One wonder if any publicity that the Chinese government take is merely lip service.
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Xinhua News Agency said provincial mining authorities set aside 28 million yuan (U.S. $4 million) for compensation. Families of dead miners would receive at least 200,000 yuan (U.S. $29,000) and their children would get compensation until they turn 18.
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Nov 29, 09
China has the responsibility to improve its mining industy, reduce accidents and reduce gas emissions.
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"We would really need several years of data like this to confirm that something unusual's going on," he said. "While it's very suggestive of an impact of climate change, it's a little early to confirm that definitively."
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Nov 29, 09
Fatalities keep occurring despite regulations and sacking of officials.
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China issues regulations to prevent coal mine accidents
BEIJING, Sept. 5 (Xinhua) -- County and town chiefs will be degraded or removed from their posts if illegal coal mines are found in regions under their jurisdiction, according to new State Council regulations
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China's top environmental body has released what China Watch in Beijing terms a "tentative" proposal for public participation in assessing the impacts of future projects. But it's still a long, long march away from enabling communities to exercise any degree of prior informed consent.
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CLB director Han Dongfang argues that moves by the authorities in Shanxi, the province at the heart of China's coal country, to close and merge small privately-run mines with larger state-run mines will only improve coal mine safety if, in addition, the miners themselves are allowed and encouraged to play a key role in safety management and engage in collective bargaining with their bosses over pay and work conditions.
Han points out that managers at state-owned mines are just as fixated with profits as their counterparts in the private sector and that, in most state-owned mines
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the Shanxi government has not hesitated to use administrative force to implement the merger and restructuring of coal mining enterprises
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Nov 29, 09
Coal mining is an issue that generates emotions among the Chinese. It has brought wealth and pride to the nation but at the same time, it has brought destruction to the environment and taken the lives of many. The average death toll per year is about 3-4000 miners. Many of the miners have given their lives in return for meagre compensation, to provide better living comforts for those living in the urban areas. There is the impact on the communities in the degradation of their environment and their livelihood.
The impact of coal mining is not only on China. The impact are far reaching as we read about the story of the polar bear eating its own young to survive. People in the cities are begining to feel the impact of global warming, thanks ot activist like Al Gore. Everyone has a right to a "suitable" environment and a duty to work towards minimising global warming.
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