This is a picture of a coal mining worker who got hurt in a coal explosion. This man is very lucky to be alive but he was very close to dyeing. Dont let this one picture fool you. There are hundreds, even thousands more accidents like this that happen everyday.
A lot of people believe that getting natural gas from coal is a better choice than fracking but i believe its the other way around.
Just in case you dont know what it is, fracking is the process of drilling and injecting fluid at a high pressure in order to fracture shale rocks to release natural gas inside. Coal ming is when holes are drilled into the rock and explosives are placed in holes. The explosion breaks up the dirt and rock called overburden. Well thats one way of mining coal. There is also surface ming, continuos underground ming, and longwall mining.
Coal mining has led to many accidents like leaks of poisonous gases, explosive gases, dust explosions, collapsing of mine stopes, flooding, or general explosives underground can trigger a coal dust explosion. There have been hundreds of deaths of coal workers because of these accidents.
Sure fracking has its cons too but coal has much more deaths than fracking has caused and it is much more dangerous.
Below is a monument dedicated to the Harlan County Coal workers who lost their lives in mining accidents.
Workers are dyeing just to supply our needs. Many people lose their lives just trying to make a living and all of these live were taken just so we can have oil. That's just a little ridiculous to me.
I think that people forget how dangerous coal mining is and how many accidents happen and how many people die from coal mining
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