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Posted on February 17, 2010 | tags

 
 

Biz, World: In case you were wondering, a ton of coal costs $2,000 dollars

  • $60
    billion
    size of the deal Australia has to supply lots of dirty, environmentally unfriendly coal to China for the next two decades
  • 30
    million
    number of tons of coal that deal will buy China; environmentalists are up in arms, saying the deal doesn’t square with Copenhagen source