Burma goes for coal - but at what cost in pollution, disease and land grabs?

The Ecologist
Oct 29, 2015, 8:56 am70 pts
The president of Burma has decided that coal is the way to future wealth and prosperity, write Carole Oudot & Matthieu Baudey. But if the experiences of farmers and village people near Tigyit, site of the country's biggest coal mine and coal-fired power plant is anything to go by, it will bring only poverty,…

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