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During a Lunar New Year visit to the hardscrabble mining town of Fuxin in 2003, Wen Jiabao told a group of miners that China's leadership was concerned about the coal industry and the lives of its workers. "At present," the soon-to-be Premier said, "we want to solve the problem of safe coal production...
...People's Republic. The blast was the latest in a series of massive disasters that have prompted government pledges of reform and official recognition that $6 billion needs to be spent improving safety in state-run operations. China's mines are the world's deadliest: last year 6,027 coal workers were reported killed in China?about 80 percent of the global total?though independent observers say the actual number could be three times that...
...Officially, annual coal-mine fatalities have dropped by nearly 1,000 since 2002, even as coal output has increased by a third. But despite the gradual improvements, ensuring mine safety remains a daunting challenge. China's skyrocketing demand for coal to keep its power plants and factories humming has forced one out of every three state-owned mines to operate above capacity, according to the State Administration of Work Safety, and has led many smaller, more dangerous mines to reopen illegally. Independent worker organizations are banned and China's official trade union is closely tied to the government, leaving miners...
...getting, the White House staff, in concert with the Vice President's office and senior staff from other departments, including the departments of Energy and Commerce, was using the California energy crisis to justify a reversal. Since half of the nation's energy needs are met by burning coal--the biggest producer of carbon dioxide emissions--they predicted a cap would reduce the availability and raise the cost of coal-generated power, at least in the short term. They asserted that the country's energy supply would be seriously disrupted unless the President reversed his position...
...charges of corruption and money laundering, first raised suspicions about her business dealings. When Yushchenko himself was Prime Minister in 1999, he made Tymoshenko his deputy. She forced reluctant businesses to pay cash for energy supplies but when she tried to take on the country's coal industry in Jan. 2001, President Leonid Kuchma fired her. She subsequently spent 42 days in jail on charges of bribery, money laundering, corruption and abuse of power, all of which were eventually thrown out of court. Indeed, no evidence of any of these crimes was ever produced. "So either it just wasn...