The latest play in the push for more alternative energy; General Electric announced they will provide 88 turbines for three projected wind projects in the Hebei and Shanxi Provinces of China. The new deal positions China to potentially surpass the U.S. as the global leader in wind energy by adding 132 megawatts of wind [...]

BEIJING, Nov 30 (Reuters) - China’s top coal-producing province, Shanxi, will embark on a programme to create several giant mining groups as it continues shutting small mines, state media reported on Sunday.
Shanxi, in the country’s north, has been plagued by deadly accidents in smaller mines, and the provincial government has announced plans to shut them [...]

SHIJIAZHUANG, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) — Four workers were killed and 13 others injured after a conveyer belt snapped at a coal mine in north China’s Hebei Province on Monday morning.
The belt, used to transport miners in and out of the inclined shaft, snapped at about 6:20 a.m. at the Wannian Coal [...]

BEIJING: Dozens of journalists from various Chinese media organisations were paid hush money totalling 125,700 yuan ($18,500) not to report a
coal mine accident in September, state media said on Thursday.
One of the journalists was later found to be a fraud but the coal mine, Huozhou Coal and Electric Group, nevertheless paid him [...]

By Emma Graham-Harrison
BEIJING (Reuters) - China’s dirty and dangerous coal mining industry cost the country a hidden $250 billion last year in lost and damaged lives, wasted energy and environmental devastation, according to a survey launched on Monday.
Pollution affected water, land and air around mines, thousands died and many more were hurt in mining accidents, [...]