China’s thirst for coal strips lush Australian farmland bare

The Vancouver Sun reports the Liverpool Plains were long considered off-limits to mining, their rich black soils ranking among Australia’s best farming land. Until China came to town.

Now a small group of farmers who have refused to sell out to China’s Shenhua Watermark Coal are locked in a battle playing out across the nation – mining boom versus the future of food.

Continue reading at Vancouver Sun .

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