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tv   Polluted and Poisoned  Deutsche Welle  July 27, 2024 5:30am-6:01am CEST

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with no shortage of people writing the next chapter. the story that involves a different kind of affiliation. the motion, and causing the imperative of the re not to have a logic is waging a battle against authorities could do nothing in the face of an imminent environmental catastrophe. here at the side of a former chemical and arguments factory toxic waters threatens to flow into poland, vist dealer river and destroyed the ecosystem for the activist. it's a grueling fight what the cost is supposed to come in. i pay a very high price for what i do go. so it means a lot of hassle and it's not just for my private life, but overall, you know, she would cushion stocky. but maybe there needs to be someone who points out that
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what's happening here is not right. pushing in utah in the history of poland and also of the world. we have always been people who were pioneers, all at each of them who were able to change everything cause of our people too much . as we know. the notion of was it, is that the side of the former is doctor and chemical plant. if it goes to during the 2nd world war, germany produced explosives and gunpowder here. then from 1948 on it was run by polish authorities. c c c later, the plant added chemical production, the for decades,
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toxic substances unimpeded into the soil, contaminating the ground water. the reason the this is one of many areas on this side of the former plant. nearby was the paint department. today the social welfare office is just about 300 to 400 meters from here. hold them. my mothers with their children and many other residents go there. full, you have the right one label. there is a very toxic substance. i'm going to show the photos of the labels to come in, so busy so they can determine what it is. so yes, i looked up on top of the next to me. nobody does anything. it doesn't seem to matter to them. even the environmental agency ignores the needs of the self. him was
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a company the size of a city. it had 20 kilometers of robots, 70 kilometers of train tracks. even its own train station. there was a hospital stores can teams, a cinema. in 2015, everything was shut down. the renate of logic grew up nearby. as a child, she was constantly sick. her illnesses were likely triggered by industrial fuel. for 6 years now, she's been fighting to get this toxic waste land decontaminated. she writes letters to politicians, dress petitions files complaints with the police,
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and spreads the word on facebook. so far, anything, no one in a story has shown serious concern. on the contrary, renada of logic has been harassed for drawing attention to the authorities, failures the. she's received death threats on facebook and her car was vandalized. the the 45 year old is a trained to gerontology test who could be taken care of elderly people. she previously taught nurses therapists and caregivers how to look after seniors or whatever sense she started advocating for the environment. she's been unemployed,
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she says her job applications are rejected. she's regarded as a trouble maker. now the single mother of a teenage daughter makes ends meet by preserving and selling fruits and vegetables . the probably will be sure that you're going to be on the interest because after the season i make preserves more uh more just like my mother used to use 90 percent of the preserving jars in the basement or from her mom's home. since i have no income and don't earn anything else from this is very good for us to call the community. yes, we have our own stocks and it's cheaper. a ranada of logic lives in her parents house with her daughter, a dog and cats in wing over
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a village right next to the former plant. the former premises obsession occupies a huge area. more than 7000 people worked here strictly separated from the outside world. the in recent years, logistics and distribution halls have been built next to dilapidated production building. new businesses have settled here the june douglas? yeah, sure. most of them are the ones you are not sure if logic is meeting with former
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plant workers and you will need them to play, you not want to give their names out of fear of repercussions when i village you work. i sell them for long or 30 years total at the plans the teen at zach. them directly. came impressive on nice me, i'll send you 40 years. so just you know, to, of was, it wants to know about working conditions of the plan. how safe was it? the weather ever? any accidents on the job? one of these men also worked with a dangerous chemical called on helene at the plant. it impacted his health. never been one time i had to replace the gasket in one of the buildings and inhaled some on the line off to it. someone looked at me and said, go to the doctor immediately. my lips and in the said already 10 blue. i was admitted to the hospital in state for 8 days. i wasn't allowed to leave the bad
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ones when i went to the toilet and scolded me my you are in was black and also is, are you still in contact with your colleagues from the unaligned department today? i don't know why there's these people on to in this well, which if you can easily died, that probably most states are looking for somebody nearby. but there's something i'm lucky to have what they're so long usual. mm. that goes on just a lot of toxic chemicals get into the sort of thing there gives me about for, by the soil. and i don't show much any to know it does how there's a lot of, you know, it depended on the number of accidents. when there were accidents, everything went into the air into the ground, and we couldn't dispose of it fast enough gas went into the air and liquid into the ground. so now we're facing the consequences. nature absorbed it and now wants to clean itself. we must tell that i know shaq and i should get to know how
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polluted the plant site is and they say that the soil should be replaced and the site decontaminated. so why is nothing being done? there's no money for this because in reality, no one's interested. sweep it under the rug, don't talk about it. that's how it works. take a look around because there's a lot of green array implants. everything's beautiful and what conclusions are drawn from that? and this is if it were really poison, nothing would grow the perception that these are feature that russian, but not the case. as my colleagues said, there's no will to change things and get us. the money is often spent on causes that could wait or less important, so people need to get involved and we shouldn't give up a to says on, gosh, oh my god, i don't know. probably it's about what perfect the,
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this woman is willing to talk to us on the condition of anonymity. she also lives in wing, all right, next to the former factory site, the she and her family are living with the effects of the pollution here does not to put them is the way to go, but i thought we suffer from cancer. and while you looked at the close to your brother died as lung cancer, i found you, my father is bone and throat cancer. got it all is because uh, some of our neighbors also have kids. he either to water cancer and breast cancer. oh, the music display of you i was recently diagnosed with aside right to march mom. not as you know, the smoke or not, and you have multiple small at the moment. but no one knows how it will develop.
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it's what come you from us, but i've number of i present at the same vision. you've had the multiple testing. i have a daughter with a disability. she has janetta damage and yet no one knows why there's most of the successful tests. so that's, i'm fixing you. well, i also had a miscarriage, some bullet gloves, this me getting you all we often have headaches and burning eyes just on the travel photo stop them. but as soon as we return, we get headaches again i, she been there, i start to birth because she's like, you some, these are the, some of the of the, this is just because, i mean if i'm not positive ownership, it's effects of, you know, she, it's all just swept under the rug equity and everything is done to prevent this massive problem from coming to life talk is they're trying to keep it a secret and ensure people don't talk about it too much. i'm just back after school . just use that goal for me. it's
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the to say, think, i think we're going to, what's this my both are per se, all the g o scientist, somebody who's chopping and don't talk to the from the h e h university of science and technology and crack of our friends or not to of why the money use chuck has been researching environmental pollution, caused by chemical substances for more than a decade. they would just use one of those published several scientific studies grove, auto talked to carrie. it's from bid, gosh, she brought her dissertation on this topic. the scientists had been appealing to
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politicians for years and really made it clear that the site must be secured, but nothing's happened. for years, eve of those pollutants are sleeping into the ground. it's sad that so much time passes between damage assessments and dispos a whole thing and so by the soap with the scientists, investigations showing urgent need for action. let's just get those things done 6th through the end. so there's just things you don't need to see on all of these substances, especially paula, cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in organic flooring compounds are mutagenic in carson a genic. they can either directly cause cancer or increase the likelihood of cancer . they can destroy genetic material which leads to congenital diseases. oh, okay. so what was about to go to the body use, try to use that. if nothing is done, the contaminated water will see pin to the ground water. and then into the vist
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your pullman's. most important river life, just a few kilometers from the city of good gosh, right next to the former plant side a i'm all of those days of this that goes, but of it is upon us and we still farm, you know, one who says that that, that under our feet, there are huge quantities of chemical substances organ, you know, no gun, a candle comic books, and they all talk sick. so what i could even close come so it's kind of, they also dangerous because they can move as a long distance. the other question beneath the surface safety, these toxic substances are traveling several kilometers here on my directly to this channel that i need to is like, is this. what is that? what's the, what's the bottle of use? both of those things. the only solution to address this would be to put a 6 are complicates over a different concept. so stops is also, but as of on the, it was, we proposed the 7 years ago practice to ensure them a lot to them will cover everything with the layer of the concrete, with them down to an impermeable later in the bedrock. and suddenly coupled was out
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for the people that didn't secure the whole thing timely from above so that nothing can penetrate his store or to go to the doctor. always revise thing if it was settled. there are water sampling points at various places. on the former industrial side, the scientists can take samples of ground water from a depth of 14 meters. the water is black and foul smelling, the back of all the this water would burn all the plan. you obviously scalar seen that brought a bottle of coca cola for comparison. that's, that's the fundamental, physical, heaviest, expedited to shape. i'm usually some of the physical chemical parameters that we've
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measure today indicate that the concentration of intelligences contamination disposal is 3 times higher than the default because the color, the color i'm smell indicates that it's um, safe, stable. there's no oxygen in it. mm. physician or other organisms couldn't survive . i couldn't, but yes, so stand you from feeling that was stuck in violation of every school. most of the most or just look at watching is that he's allowed to get a case should you contact with this. moder, can cause an allergic reaction or a skin rash, and sometimes it can irritate the skin. if you rub your eye is, or it gets to the mucus membranes, it would not be healthy, is that the water damage is the skin soft tissue for the eyes of the right next to the water sampling point, an older man is collecting mushrooms, doesn't it bother him that they are growing uncontaminated land. now you have in your mouth. well there aren't any warning signs. if they were assigned that red thing just mind, no one will go to the sign your apology. amazon
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my item, my wife eats the my children to move key of the this idyllic pond can be found in renate of wise ex hometown not far from the vist dealer river, but a few inches or deceptive water from the site of the former. the hymn, chemical and arguments factory has found its way to this place some. so they're all good. you got the key, terminates is ground water is flowing into this pullman's to say that it's a rating of flats. and the vista is right nearby is the contaminated rules of penetrates and the stuff is in this area. how much is it? who is the scales on the ocean? you? right?
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so the level of this it gives us the thought is that all these there are 2 possibilities exhibiting 1st, the decay organic substances in the water which leads to oxygen deficiency. and the fish suffocating things for a chemical contamination leads to the death of the whole system. the ecosystem of much of something to the system of systems. colin's most crucial waterway is largely unregulated. so far. the vista little river has been spared sockets, toxic legacy. what for how much longer? the dog is a tributary of the fistula, and flows through a nearby did ghost poland, 8 largest city is home to about 350000 residents. the fact that an environmental catastrophe is looming, nearby seems to be of little concern here. the
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shape gosh quarter on overseas, the environmental agency in big gosh, he's well aware of the danger, but doesn't consider it an urgent matter that he believes that contaminated water will take a few years to reach the vista. one that was on the is us in the college of a pomeranian province working and x, but groups with bonus, they consider it's an important topic. now, the website is good. i mean, i agree to mazda plan is needed as acronyms form assigned to again. but suppose on the suppose on this, so suppose i must go for this mazda plan, or any general plan of action of the complex investigations and needed the plumb joe on my machine. and those haven't been carried down yet. students? yes, to musical. no, no,
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he said his agency has no knowledge of cancer cases among residents of wing. all of them, which is directly adjacent does awesome. they'll be small. it's another zip codes available. can i go to? we've conducted a health risk analysis for the residents, so with no val fedloan and there's no increased risk that the in the area we started is put this on. this of course, is the city does not have enough money to conduct a more complex survey of the residents, so the villain uses a buzz that'll basically to would prove or disprove. on this, the cynthia, diesel is upsets, are stuck in tears all. however, the cities health risk analysis states 90 percent of the residents studied have abnormal blood cell counts more than half reported cancer cases in their families. traces of previous chemical production are everywhere on the former grams of stuff . and this extensive area is freely accessible.
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the funeral, a dangerous chemical and irritant, was produced in this building as a result of its toxicity. this part of the factory was already closed out in 1989. the rinaldo valasics battle often feels futile. the cause of them shit balls. yeah, there's a to so you know, now they do everything they can to make my life more difficult to. i keep hearing
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made up stories about being a former director hooping fired from the environmental agency. mo forbade me from speaking out about the whole issue. what have you as a 20 took off the top of a job as a customer. when i asked her why? she said that something could happen, jace your guess you put them got to go, but most of them is we spoke the how much longer can the activist take it the you have to you literally as a class doesn't put supper on the table for my child though it won't get me a pension in the future, i'm unemployed home and i know that soon i could become homeless full. so i believe in what i'm doing. but what do i get out of people congratulating me and putting me on the back? we're, i need real support if i don't get it. i'll give up is i know you may not have wise x hometown of wing nozzle plots of land or up for sale.
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viewing a decline in market value. many hear one to avoid bad publicity about the neighboring factory side. the a few weeks ago, she found 2 of her kittens dead in the garden. the 1st family history is closely linked to this often chemical and arguments plan. her father worked there and she grew up very close to the factory. she felt the effects of that at an early age.
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yeah, all to do is go hold on the pizza kind of moved as a child. i was often ill with lung infection, stobel stapo in childhood, in elementary school. i got sick a lot and you're poor the the jump. the goal was just to me, i need to go by the age of 10. i'd had pneumonia several times on a permanent respiratory problem. nicole gets committed to call your parents to me. um i had ulcers and boyles to show you. would you be in a room today? i know that this was probably caused by contact with chemical simple still just to, uh, we oh, i am now 45 years old and have the body and illnesses of a pensioners. yeah, of course, i know the renata was a relishes the rare occasions she gets to go to this cafe with her daughter to day . they have something to celebrate. the 14 year old won a gold medal polish youth championships
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to the capital of them. i would be a bad mother if i didn't fight for a clean environment for my child. talk a uses. however, it is not easy, right? let's do the summit that every day i see how people around me are rived or discouraged so that they stop actively fighting for a clean environment to copays new. in other words, look fighting for the health and life. a lot of other people have so much emotion through your home show that he's got to be picking up this little bit. but i have nothing that can be taken away from me. you want me to go back except for my life me and the life of my daughter goes on moines, the gym usage, and we would, it's gonna be the green auto plaza for sacrifice. a great deal to fight the talk sense on our
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doorstep. but even she doesn't know if it will be worth it in the, in the, or the
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