Fossil fuel memes: postcards from coal mines | Environment

 Posted on January 1, 0001  |  2 minutes  |  368 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Fossil fuel memes: postcards from coal mines

In light of the recent US Supreme Court decision, it looks like the dirty business of coal mining will continue. To celebrate, here’s a series of postcards from the wilderness that’s ever-vanishing thanks to coal

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Fri 10 Jul 2015 12.21 EDT Last modified on Wed 25 Aug 2021 09.58 EDT

  • The open cast coal mine at Afsin-Elbistan, Turkey.

  • A worker walks over stockpiles of coal at the PT Exploitasi Energi Indonesia open pit coal mine in Palaran, Indonesia.

  • Excavators and trucks operate in the smoke at the PT Exploitasi Energi Indonesia open pit coal mine in Palaran, Indonesia.

  • Coal miners shower after a long day of work at a mine on a mountain in Mazandaran province, Iran, near the city of Zirab.

  • A view of an open cast coal mine, along with state-owned coal power stations Afsin-Elbistan A and Afsin-Elbistan B, in Turkey.

  • In South Africa, women from the Masakhane settlement fill their wheelbarrows with free coal from a nearby mine in Emalahleni.

  • A giant strip mining machine at work in the open cast coal mine at Afsin-Elbistan, Turkey.

  • Smoke billows from the RWE brown coal power plant in Frimmersdorf, Germany.

  • A coal miner waits for a bus after emerging from underground at the Zasyadko mine in Donetsk, Ukraine.

  • Coarse coal is processed in the wash plant of the Carbosulcis coal mine in the village of Nuraxi Figus, Italy.
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