West China’s coal blues
19th February 2008
Zhang Lianlian, a researcher of the Shanxi Provincial Academy of Social Sciences, writes an article about Shanxi’s ecological environment. You can find a link in AmCham’s China Wire. About 2.48 cubic meter of water will be wasted per ton of coal explored in Shanxi province. By 2005, about 8.77b tons of coal had been explored in Shanxi province. Shanxi’s groundwater level is going down. Coal mining has caused very serious damage to water resources.