14th December. China. Activists install a large banner next to an open-pit coal mine which is undermining the embankment of the Yellow River in Wuhai City, Inner Mongolia. The banner reads "Yellow River: Off-limits to Coal." A massive cluster of coal processing plants are operated at dozens of industrial parks spanning hundreds of miles along the Yellow River. All these projects are highly energy, water and carbon intensive, and discharge huge amounts of waste water and flue gas.
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