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**Willinois** · (This post was last modified: 12-28-2010 10:46 AM by Willinois.)

An interesting slide show at Mother Jones, including a few big ones I never heard about.

http://motherjones.com/slideshows/2010/1...rs-of-2010

The year in pipeline explosions, mining blasts, and eco-calamities.

**jaxx** · 12-29-2010, 06:16 AM

The mines all over the world are a huge danger to the workers. You'd think after all the years that they would be able to find a way to keep the gasses piped out instead of building up to explode. I'm sure that sounds totally naive, but it just doesn't make sense to have the same thing happening over and over.

**Willinois** · 12-29-2010, 09:05 AM

(12-29-2010 06:16 AM)Sass Wrote: You'd think after all the years that they would be able to find a way to keep the gasses piped out instead of building up to explode. I'm sure that sounds totally naive, but it just doesn't make sense to have the same thing happening over and over.

They have found ways. It's just costs more money to run a mine safely. Mine accidents are the price of an artificially cheap power source.