"India Leads Asia's Dash for Coal as Emissions Blow East"

"Deep in the thickly forested hills in its east, India last month started production at what it hopes will in five years be Asia's biggest coal mine.

At the open-cast mine, which involves the clearing of more than 18,000 hectares (44,500 acres) of land, noisy excavators are busy digging for coal that will feed a huge power plant being built nearby to fuel India's energy-hungry economy.

India is opening a mine a month as it races to double coal output by 2020, putting the world's third-largest polluter at the forefront of a pan-Asian dash to burn more of the dirty fossil fu"

Krishna N. Das and Tommy Wilkes report for Reuters October 6, 2015.

Source: Reuters, 10/07/2015