Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smokers who work in the asbestos, rubber, coal, textile, uranium and chemical industries, the risk of developing lung cancer is 90 times as great as the risk for nonsmokers in other fields...
West Germany uproots thousands to exploit its coal reserves...
...resettled, at an average yearly cost of $20 million. And still the job is only partly done. In the coming decades, 10,000 more people will be resettled and other new communities will rise. The object of this undertaking: to tap West Germany's great lignite, or brown coal, reserves, the largest in Europe, without causing irreparable destruction to the landscape...
...center of this great dig out, which has attracted the interest of both industrialists and environmentalists around the world, is a 1,000-sq.-mi. area bounded by the industrial cities of Düsseldorf, Aachen and Cologne. Known as the Brown Coal Triangle, it contains an estimated 50 billion tons of lignite, enough to meet West Germany's energy needs for 350 years. Unfortunately for the villagers who sit atop this fossil fuel bonanza, much of it lies just below the surface; it can only be recovered by open-pit or strip mining, which requires relocating the people...
...many people and stripping away their land would be far more difficult in the U.S., where companies have traditionally been able to take over private land only when they are building railroads, natural gas pipelines, power lines and other essential facilities. But under West Germany's 1950 Brown Coal Act, the only coal company in the Triangle, Rheinische Braunkohlenwerke (commonly called Rheinbraun), can evict homeowners as part of a national policy designed to meet energy needs...