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Tim White's Blog – August 2013 Archive (1)

Coal-fired war flares in Mozambique, emerging 'Kuwait of Coal'; impact on NW exporting

Disturbing news from southeast Africa today, that bodes ill for NW coal schemes exploiting the existing North American rail infrastructure, which alone makes Powder River Basin coal of any economic value.

 

Any way you look at it, it’s a lose-lose-lose scenario of a race to the environmental and economic bottom for the people of Mozambique, for the people of the Pacific NW, and for the people of the world bearing climate decay.

Exports from one of the poorest countries…

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Added by Tim White on August 14, 2013 at 11:30am — No Comments

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