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Commenced:
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01/03/2011 |
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Submitted:
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14/02/2011 |
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Last updated:
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07/10/2015 |
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Ulgii soum, Bayan Ulgii Province, MN |
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Website:
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http://thegreenbackpack.net |
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Climate zone:
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Cold Temperate |
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Back to Bayan Ulgii Sustainable Agriculture and Economic Learning
Project: Bayan Ulgii Sustainable Agriculture and Economic Learning
Posted by Matthew Lynch over 13 years ago
Upon entering Bayan Ulgii province we saw no trees until we finally arrived in Ulgii City. Locals can remember that only two generations ago, the river flats of Ulgii City, and much of the rest of the province, were covered in trees.
Just like the Lorax in Dr. Suess’ fable, all were cut down for winter fuel and building materials.
A coal truck brings in table sized slabs of greenhouse gas emitting fuel. Photo: TheGreenBackPack.net.
The next thing to greets us is the coal-fired powerplant which powers this remote urban-rural settlement, providing central heating for maybe one-third of the city’s officially 28,000 inhabitants (but more like 40,000, according to local sources).
Lumbering roadtrains loaded with chunks of coal the size kitchen tables and trailing coal dust provide the heating fuel for the rest of the city. Much of it is trucked in from the so-called ‘Ninja Mines’ dotting the countryside. They’re squalid hell-holes of heavy drinking, prostitution, and almost daily deaths from cave-ins, discernable by the piles of rubble strewn across the landscape surrounding the encampments, a modern-day gold-rush for the black stuff we’re so addicted to.
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