Photo Gallery: The Collateral Damage of Coal Mining
02/20/2013

When pensioner Ingeborg Steensma moved into her parents home to take care of...
Dirk Hoppe/ Netzhaut/ DER SPIEGEL

When pensioner Ingeborg Steensma moved into her parents home to take care of her mother and her mentally disabled sister, it first became clear to her the scale of damage that mining taking place directly beneath the building was doing to the house. The front section of the building is so crooked that her mother's wheeled walker starts moving on its own if the brakes aren't pulled. Life in the house is a "daily nightmare," the 64 year old says.




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