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I don't really have an opinion or any suggestions... But I can say that I currently live in a town that used to be a mining town. The mines closed in this area over 20 years ago, but the soot is still in the air. The houses are black, and when I've gone home to Northern Ireland for a while, I notice that I look a lot cleaner than when I'm over here! Not many people notice the long-term environmental effects of mining.
posted by
Ichi
on May 28, 2006 at 1:25 PM
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cool, I enjoyed the ten clicks!!
Pity more people werent able to think of a reply for it!!!
posted by
justright
on May 25, 2006 at 10:07 PM
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CONGRATS
HAVING BEAT BACK A HORDE OF COMPETITON, YOU WIN THE PRIZE JUSTRIGHT....
posted by
FARSAILOR
on May 24, 2006 at 6:07 AM
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re the mining incidents
The mining incident that has caught the most headline attention for my end of the world, is that of my neighboring country Australia.
The two men who survived for 14 days in a cage, unable to move, but after a few days, were able to be provided with a few essential necessities, such as water, toothpaste, moro bars and an IPod with their favorite music to listen to. The supply chain was regularly added to, thus enabling the men to survive with water and some food at least.
There are a lot of jobs that carry high risk, some more than others and mining would be, I would imagine, possibly the highest of all. But we hear of a lot of other deaths in high risk jobs, not the least being construction workers. Their death toll is also extremely high. Falling from great heights, being crushed by huge machinery, or crushed by heavy metal/concrete objects, the list goes on.(farming in another strangely high death rate occupation)
Work place deaths in all professions are on the rise, even though standards from government base organizations are trying to lower the rates, it continues to rise!
Why? there must be a hoard of reasons, the workers not trained enough, the equipment not serviced enough. the engineers not correctly estimating various mechanical or geographical estimations accurately.
But it does boil back to a well known established, unchangeable fact.
As humans, We make a 10% overall error rate in any thing we do. Its literally unchangeable.
So some mistakes will always occur.
posted by
justright
on May 20, 2006 at 3:06 PM
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