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 Post subject: Mining has devastated the landscape in Myanmar
PostPosted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 12:27 pm 
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News of scores of deaths from a landslide near a Myanmar jade mine over the weekend comes during a spate of recent media attention to the dangerous conditions threatening poor rural people seeking hope in the $31 billion-a-year industry. Large-scale miners controlling the industry have devastated the landscape, reports the New York Times, which quotes one activist: “Their legacy to local people is a dystopian wasteland in which scores of people at a time are buried alive in landslides.”


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 Post subject: Re: Mining has devastated the landscape in Myanmar
PostPosted: Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:30 pm 
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Very sad :( Mining can be dangerous enough here but miners in the developing world face exploitative conditions where health and safety standards are few and environmental concerns non-existent.


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