Responsible mining for miners - coal to save forests

Nigerian environmental experts have called on the government to reintroduce coal mining in a move aimed at solving the country's current power crunch and salvaging its disappearing forests.

WINDHOEK -
Environmentalists in petroleum rich Nigeria, West Africa's economic giant, should be bracing themselves for a major war of words with their radical counterparts from the developed world.
In a surprising sign of defiance to the long-standing conservation tradition, environmental experts have called on the President Umaru Yar'Adua government to reintroduce coal mining to end the country's current energy crunch. The environmentalists are not only concerned about Nigeria's power generation problems, but say the move will help slow down forest losses and desertification.

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