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11/10 130-year-old Chinese fire put out http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3978329.stm \_ Are you Chinese? Do you have any idea what the effect of a 130 year old coal fire was on China? \_ In SOVIET CHINA fire puts out YOU! \_ Are you Chinese? Do you have any idea how much opium you could puff with that 130 years of coal fire? \_ Gives China a nice bonus for the Kyoto treaty. That's one big source of pollutions shut off. \_ Isn't that just one of many burning? \_ John Kerry's grandfather set it. \_ Uhm, before or after he enjoyed benefits from the effects of the opium trade in China? \_ Why do you hate John kerry's grandfather? \_ Actually, it came from a flicked-away match after lighting up a fat opium spliff. \_ Cool! Xinjiang has 1.8 trillion tons of coal reserves. We must remember to always quash the Islamic separatist terrorists there. \_ We don't have to. The Chinese have been doing that. |
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news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3978329.stm Printable version 130-year-old Chinese fire put out A fire that broke out more than 100 years ago at a Chinese coalfield has finally been extinguished, reports say. In the last four years, firefighters have spent $12m in efforts to put ou t the flames at Liuhuanggou colliery, near Urumqi in Xinjiang province. While ablaze, the fire burned up an estimated 18m tons of coal every yea r, according to China's official Xinhua news agency. Local historians said the fire first broke out in 1874, Itar-Tass reporte d Hou Xuecheng, head of the Xinjiang Coalfield Firefighting Project Office, said the Liuhuanggou fire was the largest among eight major coalfield f ire areas in Xinjiang. The burning coal emitted 100,000 tons of harmful gases - including carbon monoxide and sulphur dioxide - and 40,000 tons of ashes every year, Mr Hou told Xinhua. The continuing blaze is also thought to have caused environmental damage to the region. |