Farmer Tony Clift points past bright canola crops toward the location of a proposed coal mining site near Gunnedah, Australia, in September. Gunnedah's former mayor says sellers told him Shenhua Watermark Coal paid several times market value. Clift's family has plowed the rich black soil of Australia's Liverpool Plains for six generations. The thought of selling never crossed his mind — until the Chinese company came to town.<br>The Associated Press
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