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these are not rain clouds it's coal dust. and all that armor and other it's really scary the wind blows coal ash and dust into the village and even in a broad daylight it gets dark you know what it's might be very good base work is vital for us we need to paychecks to feed our families for the most of the man who work here have wives and kids get weeded out of southern a big. op us dollars coggan eighty's is 33 years old right now i. told this and his colleagues are setting up a controlled explosion. he earns $1200.00 euros

a month. that's not much but he's grateful he has a job. 70 percent of the young people in this region are unemployed. 4 villages were demolished to make room for this mine alone. made better but my mother was from the village of key toss. it used to be right here where we are now. but the residents had to move to make room for the mine my mother and grandfather lived in advantage. of that history of the better. johnny's has worked for the mining company for 30 years. he used to make good money so he'll qualify for a generous pension. but 10 years ago he had to move out of his home village.

to listen to be looked at you know you have only lived on this land for 55 years it was hard for me to leave i'm 55 years old so it was easier for me than it was for older people who know like my wife's parents are in their eighty's of his own loophole they had to leave their land and now they're stuck in a high rise apartment building. from the top of the shop with them my grandfather used to grow crops on this land and now we're destroying it a lot of talk about. this is the i used to me trios coal fired power station located near the mine. up a stall is his wife to spina works here. she earns just $620.00 euros a month and her contract is temporary. she hopes that the power company will offer her a permanent position. with the company has done

a lot of good for people and still does. the entire region depends on the company for jobs that includes businesses that have nothing to do with mining or energy production like cafe's if the fit their date because they put the every business and all the local residents depend on the power company for income a good deal of them to the. thousands of people in this region have worked for generations for the power company in one capacity or another. there are 5 coal fired power plants here spread out over an area that covers about 80 kilometers. in 2009 lignite supplied half of all of greece's electricity. but now that's fallen to less than 30 percent. most of the power plants are old and

inefficient and they create too much c o 2 the e.u. continues to impose increasingly severe penalties for excessive emissions that makes whole production unprofitable. the e.u. is also demanding that parts of the power company be privatized because of creases economic crisis. this comes at a time when other countries are winding down coal production there will almost certainly be job cuts. though there may be as you live if the coal industry shuts down here a lot of people be unemployed and of them that's scary. but i shudder to think what could happen to them if. i wish my other son could find a job here the thought of big of a lives. my daughter had to move overseas she went to dubai because she couldn't find work in greece of the year for the girl i got

a little of him she simply wasn't able to find a job here to live in the field of the. din of the field. she studied hardly and speak several languages we friend her diploma would lose a. whole he says that in the past the mining company would have provided work for everyone including his brother but now he's worried about what will happen next. name in. the metal the video when i think about my children's future. i think it would be better if they shut down most coal production with it and if they live and got up because of the pollution and i. guess yesterday you have to but i think that they want to keep at least some of it if you know. where i'm terrified about what would happen if we didn't have coal and he will be minimizing

. but the mines continue to expand production and dangerously close to the surrounding villages including acri ne lots of people there have been hard hit by the mining companies business practices. nikos party at c.d.c. used to work as a subcontractor for the mining company providing transport trucks. he was forced to sell his family's orchards to the company in return 440000 euros. but after 10 years his contract was cancelled that he took up farming. but his land is now fenced in and dried up and it belongs to the mining company.

he had to lease land in order to grow fodder for his cattle. we've had to do you know what a few of my family's been here for 3 generations we were here before the power company wanted to see what. it was we supposed to do now here to. you but i've been out you know. what are your demands i don't want to leave my village but i want clean fresh air. i want those coal fired power plants shut down. skift oh man i'm a doctor sometimes i think about just giving up a lot of good but that's hard to do it my god i'm 54 and i have 3 children and the love of. the situation in our creamy has been on hold for 8 years but nikos still has to find ways to feed his family. he has 20 cows but needs 80 to 100.

and there are serious ground clue should problems. about off the up of a few down on you. the company didn't dispose of the coal ash properly they just left it lying around like. that one of the trees on the back of some of my neighbor's cows got into it and they went blind on. your game and i would i think i slowly got 30 i might be my neighbor sued the company for damages and was awarded compensation. the coal ash also contaminated the groundwater with chromium. the villagers took the power company to court over the situation. people who still have jobs there don't talk about any of this because they don't want to get into trouble. but the village is divided everyone feels let down and they can't see a way out. now we're on our way to the village of mobs opihi about 20 kilometers away from our queenie there's

a coal mine near here to. the village just like a ghost town the result of a botched expropriation and resettlement program. most of the residents moved out in 2012. today just a few dogs remain. taso same on a wheel that used to be the mayor here he stops by occasionally to feed the dogs and to remember the village as a. used to be. if you go here with 2 families to live here you know there are 2 brothers who are shepherds. they still have their land and they want to stay with their animals or but it's knows a lot during the winter here miss is like a border and if the villages can't own from the outside world they want to look after their flock. they'll go again almost and there's an older couple they had 7

children or any kind of the one of the kids was ill for a long time and then died. they just don't want to leave the village. with us and we think their house is the only one that still has electricity. there's no running water anywhere. to shepards get that electricity from a generator. and they get their water from the animals drinking troughs what this is what is going to get us up but i'm not giving levy. they carry the water home in buckets for. them because. the older couple didn't want to talk to us neither did the shepherds. father because the whole roof this used to be the center of the village. because i knew who my parents' house was over then. it had

a cafe to. work with what i got a little mini mart there was a mini market on the ground floor of my house on the opposite side with or 3 market . one with a theme of a big an echo that i had some income from the cafe and the market that. when people started leaving the village. both businesses shut down my view with with i think we can compensation for the property. but not for the income that we lost when the businesses closed or some pointers from the from of them. the power company went to court appeal the compensation ruling and won the case. the new ruling said that after 7 years people would have to pay back up to 40 percent of the amount that they'd been awarded. but in the meantime some people had

bought apartments in nearby towns they've been waiting since 2012 to be resettled the people of modern opihi filed a lawsuit and the case is still tied up in the courts. my father in law's house was over that the house was torn down in the hole of the levee with no one had used any electricity there since 2015 but we still got power bills and bought off until last month we were getting bills for electricity that we hadn't used. but on top of that he'll thora to still charges for local taxes and utilities like water sewage treatment and garbage disposal of all part of it but he wouldn't even know those services are no longer provided people if you don't pay are you'll get into trouble on the vent of often they have poor woman going on behind the back of chaos from start to finish there's just no end to it i think it and. then as i wrote to the village used to run through here. by him we

noticed that a cracker developed and it was getting bigger of course from a guy long it was about 3 and a half kilometers long with remember. the villagers demanded to be resettled before work on the new mines started but taso says that the company refused to pay for any relocation expenses. in 2010 there was a landslide here and that was the beginning of the end for the village of moderate pm. her voice i mean this is all that's left of the courtyard in front of the church of st nick allow which was built on the edge of the village. ravi a horrific and there were over 50 head tents of forest land there. taso says coal production is still in full swing here.

greece depends on coal for much of its electricity a new $660.00 megawatt power plant is being built near the village at a cost of $1400000000.00 euros the project uses german technology and german financing a 740000000 year old loan from the state owned development bank k f w all this for coal fired power production that's being phased out in germany. the landslide in mop up he took place in 2010 in the village of a not guilty about 30 kilometers away but there was a landslide in the summer of 2017 also near a coal mine. or east coast kind of p.t.'s house was directly about the big crack. this is our east coast and his son petrus. they continually check on the condition of their home. the ground is still sinking it's too dangerous to go

inside. to feel. the they've used their vote the bill is more than that he didn't need they got the power company doesn't want to pay compensation because they say there's no lignite here minutes up a look at us all a bit of work you know about us that but the mine is just 300 metres away so they should have known that something like this might happen but i'm it's not my job to tell them about any of those recordings cup if you meet with the can with just a good day you're here they should have warned us earlier to loser but i've been again i was born or what but i've been a figure with us we've either thought even what they kind of everyone saw that the cracks were getting bigger and bigger. we complained about it for a month it is you know unique out of the day before the landslide some company representatives came out and said that there was no danger of going to settle this case till they started moving their equipment away from the mine can use in the month but i'm signed cause damage there to have on it the key they both got us that you know with the approach of an amount of soft wood they said today had expected

a landslide but nothing like this actually goes from about a full. the company insists that the landslide was a natural disaster and was not caused by mining operations in any case the company is short of cash so the only hope for the villagers as that they'll get some financial aid from the government. and i could put up with your boy night this really hurts we put a lifetime of work into this house and to lose it just like that with me then it's tough what's on the cover sleeve need to jaime's support my put up with. or leave it up we're going to show i worked my entire life to buy this house it's the only asset i have with this. situation is just awful. for people who live at the you know the speak all the people around here have moved away going and they've

gone to the town of told them i you do you have to if you were to put up on that i was then you know the time being the company is paying the rent but that's all and i have just finished and. nobody cared about whether they had enough money to survive their. actual then is then you know it's the gift of this what happens to the older people or large families legal again how they manage money that they have nothing when it begun you but. i reached says that the power company believes it's making a concession with the temporary rent payments but many people here have lost their source of income petros ran a blueberry farm on his parents' property but he had to shut it down after the ground there sank 2 meters they held some public protests which provoked a swift response from the power company is a couple of us are going to be think i'm certain of what a good guy gets when we held demonstrations for fair compensation and on one occasion we closed down the company's conveyor belts for

a while we the numbers of those who then the company filed a complaint against us claiming that we were trying to damage their business that's not going to mean it's 10 of us were arrested but then sentenced to 10 months in jail. that was later reduced to probation of up with a good minister like. the honestly. i restate this was sentenced to 3 years probation. finally the greek government said it would pay $42000000.00 euros from a state investment program to those whose land was expropriated it's not clear when the money will be paid the people up on our t.v. have long since lost their trust in the authorities. this is the home of demolition expert op was stolen n.e.t.'s he still has a job and he and his family live in a newly constructed village the land was a gift from his grandfather who in turn got it from the power company when business

was better but not by no to hold your people in the old phillips there were lots of people they raised crops or had livestock a year going to get a whole year to qualify for resettlement here in the new village they had to sell their land to the company and that's expropriation to me that it's tough to start all over when you have no land the few of us who have jobs with the power company like me moved here if some others left the country and went to germany or the us we feel that it's not maybe. the new village was finished 10 years after the residents land was taken away 2000 people lived in the old village of cletus but only 400 of them still live here the old community no longer exists e.u. funds were used for new infrastructure projects including a primary and secondary school but up a stone he says children have to attend classes in

a neighboring village the school was shut down because there aren't enough children here. the region's entire economy revolves around the power company. so are the coal fired power plants a blessing or a curse. the company now owns most of the land around here people like me cause for yet c.d.'s who have to make their living from farming but no longer have fields have to buy straw or at least the land from others to grow it. meanwhile the mine is moving closer to his village the mood here is despondent with. so much. even because the rubble made them sick the power company measures an area

on the plane and decided to confiscate it a total of $1250.00 hectors. up to 90 percent of the villagers make their living on that land that maintaining. some raise livestock like sheep most of them grow crops like potatoes and corn. so the company will take away their land what's going to happen to those people well if you thought you got to eat on the grandmother some work for the power company does that mean that of the 1200 people in the village 200 have jobs and the rest don't matter. we just sit around here and wait and the company keeps playing games with us. like the not. the local residents have no idea what they're supposed to do now it's not yet clear when they might be resettled and they have to deal with pollution from the mine. nico says that no one wants to invest in

a village that's been condemned to death. when i remember to go meaning we're not only surrounded by the mine the water is polluted and the pipes are old and full of is best. but nobody does anything. no one cares and we have to drink that water you know about one or 2. fortunately for opera star listeners family they can safely drink the water from the tap their home is 25 kilometers from the mine where the parents work. but the spinners family lives right behind the power plant. i was born and raised in that village. but we decided to move here for our children sake. the family get away from the pollution most. of them he would have preferred to stand

a village because that's where our parents live they'd be there for us and they could help with the kids but the air is clean here away from the mighty market up out here in the group where it's a double edged sword. we'd like to have jobs and a clean environment. but around here we can't see. it with thank god we have our jobs with the power company and we're also curtiss. everyone just tries to do their best with what they've got to have thought. a couple of good parents used to dream that their children would study hard get a degree and find a job similar to the bottom of the bad today that's not realistic. they we just try to make sure that our children get a good education. we have no idea what their future will be lined. up with

should they learn foreign languages and move overseas we do not. know who lives but i can tell them to stay here and work for the power company. and farming is hard work. so their future is uncertain you know the actual nikos for yet c.d.'s is even more concerned about his family's future he doesn't have a steady income and the local environment is polluted he's especially worried for his 3 children. or you're both documented anybody can go on a limb. there's no future for them here like milk is all about they're 1614 and 12 years old the got that's a lot of i'm sure they go to school but there are no opportunities for them around here i love any part where you get yellow. thank you no you're not into german is good but i think chinese would be better imo but you know you got out of you know. i think i'd prefer a russian he or spanish. he's

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