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Environment & Energy

NNadir

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2. I have no idea. These "green" energy deaths go down the rabbit hole really fast. I hadn't...

Reply to OnlinePoker (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 9, 2018, 06:25 PM

Aug 2018

...heard of that one.

None of them thankfully approached the death toll of Banqiao, but nobody cares about Banqiao at all, even if it seems to have killed as many as or even more than 200,000 people in the 1970's.

...nowhere near as sexy as Fukushima.

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The Laos disaster reminds us that local people are too often victims of dam development [View all] NNadir Aug 2018 OP

I wonder where this was in comparison to the dam that collapsed in August last year? OnlinePoker Aug 2018 #1

I have no idea. These "green" energy deaths go down the rabbit hole really fast. I hadn't... NNadir Aug 2018 #2