Social Impact: Affect on Communities
The mining of coal has many adverse effects on local communities. Clicking on the four links below will take you to accounts on how coal mining affected these three communities. For more information on social impact, click on any of the links in the Social Impact section.
Centralia, Pennsylvania
Tamaquito, Colombia
Acland Coal Mining, Australia
Jaintai Hills District, India
To read more on the social impact of coal, take a look at the links under the Social Impact section.