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Nathanael Donating Member (375 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-10 11:39 AM
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Oil Pipeline Explosion in Myanmar Kills At Least 12
And the fossil fuel disasters just continue to pile up.

An oil pipeline explosion in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, has killed 12 people and left another 50 severely injured.

Link: http://www.energyboom.com/policy/oil-pipeline-explosion-myanmar-kills-least-12
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Nathanael Donating Member (375 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-10 01:05 PM
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1. Update
Apparently the explosion was caused when a villager lit a match while siphoning oil from the leaking pipe. See here for the details: http://www.energyboom.com/policy/oil-pipeline-explosion-myanmar-kills-least-12
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Nihil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-10 07:39 PM
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2. No-one gives a shit about fossil fuel problems.
Now if you'd managed to get the word "nuclear" into your headline ...
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