industryterm:coal mining

Downstream from a coal mine, villages in Indonesian Borneo suffer from water pollution
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2017/03/downstream-from-a-coal-mine-villages-in-indonesian-borneo-suffer-from

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“The Santan River is the lifeblood of the people of Santan Ilir, Santan Tengah and Santan Hulu villages,” said student activist Taufik Inskander (26), sitting on the veranda of his parents’ home in Santan Ilir, in the Kutai Kartanegara district of East Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo.

“This river has great historical value. Before there was a road, the people of Santan transported their agricultural products by river to be sold in Samarinda and Bontang,” explained Iskandar, who is a member of the local Marangkayu Student Association.

In addition to serving as a water transportation corridor, the Santan river was also used by residents to meet their everyday needs for clean water as well as to flood their fields and fishponds. Villagers “regularly hold traditional ceremonies to honor the river and the resources,” Iskandar added.

Now, Iskandar said, the people are abandoning the river because the quality of the river is deteriorating.

Ever since coal mining began in the headwaters of the Santan River, local activists say the water has become turbid, muddy, and prone to flooding when there is rain.

#eau #pollution #charbon #extraction #Indonésie #Bornéo

Mapped : The global coal trade | Carbon Brief

▻https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-the-global-coal-trade

Carte des exportations de charbon, design intéressant, original et assez efficace (toujours difficile ces cartes de flux, et ici une bonne solution).

Repéré par Olaf Merk que je remercie.

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Mapped: The global coal trade

The global coal trade doubled in the decade to 2012 as a coal-fueled boom took hold in Asia. Now, the coal trade seems to have stalled, or even gone into reverse.

This change of fortune has devastated the coal mining industry, with Peabody – the world’s largest private coal-mining company – the latest of 50 US firms to file for bankruptcy. It could also be a turning point for the climate, with the continued burning of coal the biggest difference between business-as-usual emissions and avoiding dangerous climate change.

Carbon Brief has produced a series of maps and interactive charts to show how the global coal trade is changing.

#charbon #matières_premières #sémiologie #sémantique #couleurs #cartographie #flux #circulation

The mine that displaced India’s indigenous people - Al Jazeera English
▻http://www.aljazeera.com/blogs/asia/2016/07/displaced-india-indigenous-people-160707062855721.html

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It was hard to believe looking at the layers of black pits that sink deep into the earth that this land used to be rice fields where cows roamed before the trucks transporting coal arrived.

Lath village also used to be home to 400 Adivasi families. Adivasis are India’s indigenous people, of which there are many different tribes. People in Lath are from the Kawar tribe. We could see signs of Adivasi culture. The older women wear the traditional Indian sarees without a blouse, using only the shawl of the saree to cover their chest. Their arms and faces are often covered in tattoos of tribal patterns, depicting trees, nature, animals - all things they consider sacred.

Families face displacement in India’s coal mining belt

#inde #extraction_minière #évictions #peuples_autochtones #charbon

Ukraine’s illegal coal mines are dirty, dangerous and deadly
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/ukraines-illegal-coal-mines-are-dirty-dangerous-and-deadly-349592.html

Illegal coal mining, a multimillion-dollar shadow industry, has become a curse on the Ukrainian economy and workers but a blessing for its few profiteers.

An investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a Kyiv Post partner, has found that companies linked to former government officials and to businesses owned by the son of former President Viktor Yanukovych routinely legalized and sold black-market coal — stealing jobs from legitimate miners and endangering workers toiling in unregulated and illegal pits.

Industry experts estimate that there are tens of thousands of these workers in some 2,500 kopanki or illegal pits around Ukraine, mostly in the protest-wracked Donbas region around Donetsk.

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[member of parliament Oleh Medunytsia] explains that in 2012, state-owned and private coal mines in Ukraine reported extracting up to 61.1 million tons of thermal coal. But the state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia transported 66.9 million tons during that time. The 5.8 million ton difference, he said, represents illegally extracted coal.
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Such volumes of illegally extracted coal require a steady market, which raises questions as to who is buying the massive quantities. After all, 7 million tons is 11 percent of the country’s entire annual output of thermal coal, including production from private mines.

Dirty Money - an interactive documentary
▻http://www.wdm.org.uk/webdoc

Watch our online, interactive documentary exploring how UK banks are financing coal mining in Indonesia.
The documentary includes a wide range of interview clips, including indigenous people whose homelands have been destroyed by coal mining, people in the mountains of Java running their own renewable energy projects, finance experts and campaigners.

#Indonésie #banques #charbon #webdoc