Myanmar: Burma Goes for Coal - But at What Cost in Pollution, Disease and Land Grabs?

Oct 29, 2015 | Carole Oudot and Matthieu Baudey, The Ecologist
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The president of Burma has decided that coal is the way to future wealth and prosperity, write Carole Oudot & Matthieu Baudey. But if the experiences of farmers and village people near Tigyit, site of the country's biggest coal mine and coal-fired power plant is anything to go by, it will bring only poverty, pollution, ill-health and land grabs to rural communities across the country.