the car mining region in northern greece many people here used to think of brown coal as a divine gift. the minds created jobs and coal fired power plants brought electricity to all of greece but today the coal mines are controversial. these are not rain clouds it's coal dust. and other dhamma 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 iniquitous might be very good bass 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 in it we do not use other big.

op us dollars coggan e.t.s. is 33 years old. right now he's on his way to work he's a demolition expert at a mine that's owned by the government run energy production company. grew. up a stall is his father jani also works at the model his father worked here to. the. office told us 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. me that i'm about that well that my mother was from the village of key toss. it used to be right here where we are now. about 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 there because 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

a visit to go to had to leave their land and now they're stuck in a high rise apartment building. doesn't come up with a job with my. father used to grow crops on his land and now we're destroying it. but. this is the i used to me trios coal fired power station located near the mine. papa stories his wife dispy know 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 cafes. if the fit there because they were the every business and

all the local residents depend on the power company for income a good deal also several. 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 late night 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 coal 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. because 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. that it will go with i wish my other son could find a job here the thought of a big of a little of the moon my daughter had to move overseas she went to dubai because she couldn't find work in greece of the afford to go but other than a little of him she simply wasn't able to find a job here dilip in the field of the. dean of the field. she studied hard and speaks several languages. we framed her diploma would lose a. whole

he says that in the past the mining company would have provided work or everyone including his brother but now he's worried about what will happen next. name in us you. don't meddle the video when i think about my children's future. i think it would be better if they shut down most production. because of the pollution. because i like it as they have the but i think that they want to keep it instead some of it if you know. i'm terrified about what would happen if we didn't have code anymore or to minimize it. but the mines continue to expand production and dangerously close to the surrounding villages including acri name lots of people there have been hard

hit by the mining companies business practices. c.d.s. 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 and 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 like 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 might be yeah i'm 54 and i have 3 children and the love of. the situation are 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 clinician problems. or down 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. 300 dogs on the back of some of my neighbors cows got into it and they went blind on. your game and i think i slowly got. 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 queeny 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 wheels 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 still live here. there are 2 brothers who are shepherds. they still have their land and they want to stay with their animals. it snows a long journey in the winter here and this is like a border and if the village is cut off 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 and kind of the point one of the kids was ill for a long time and then died. they just don't want to leave the village. with us in the senate and their house is the only one that still has electricity. mimic 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 that we've put in to get us up but i'm not giving levy. they carry the water home in buckets of people in because. the older couple didn't want to talk to us neither did the shepherds. for the back of the room this used to be the center of the village shop with a. book of a newborn who my parents' house was over that. it had a cafe to. work with what if it got little mini mart there was a mini market on the ground floor of my house on the opposite side with or from the market. that i had some income from the cafe and the markets. when people started leaving the village.

both businesses shut down. interview with with of the we can't compensation for the property. but not for the income that we lost when the businesses closed or the supporters went through in my book. 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. your couple my father in law's house was over there the house was torn down and the home

of the levee with no one had used any electricity there since 2015 but we still got power bills and. but up until last month we were getting bills for electricity that we hadn't used. but on top of that you know thora to still charges for local taxes and utilities like water sewage treatment and garbage disposal but of anybody who can even though those services are no longer provided people if you don't pay are you'll get into trouble and vent the horses they have problem of the moment buttle battle or chaos from start to finish there's just no end to it i think it can. and as i wrote to the village used to run through here you can spot him we noticed that a cracker developed and it was getting bigger of course when we got along it was about 3 and a half kilometers long if you remember. the villagers demanded to be resettled before work on the new mine 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 mob ropey ye. who. i mean this is all that's left of the courtyard in front of the churches and niccolo which was built on the edge of the village to be socketed were. horrific and there were over 50 hecticness 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 euro 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 opihi took place in 2010 in the village of an arche about 30 kilometers away 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 fix. the they because the vote 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 about you know about us that it but the mine is just 300 metres away so they should have known that something like this might happen it's not a myth it's not my job to tell them about any of this record was cut his email would you think it would just be good that you're here they should have warned us earlier to leave it there but i've been again i'm we're not what you but i've been a figure with the they thought it might be kind of everyone saw that the cracks were getting bigger and bigger. we complained about it for a month it is going to unicode 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 move on is the key they both believe that us that you know what the the people of and i don't have an afterword they said that they had expected a landslide but nothing like this out of those from out of a small. 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 point i this really hurts we put a lifetime of work into this house and to lose it just like that is up with me then it's tough what's on the cover sleeve me to harness support my put up with. or leave it up we're going to show i worked my entire life to buy this house because it's the only asset i have with this situation is just awful. for people living the good of the speaker all the people around here have moved away and then they've gone to the town of tolo my you do you have to if you would about up on that i was doing at the time being the company's paying the rent but that's all and i have just finished and. nobody cared about whether they had enough money to survive their effort of the guy actually 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

. they have nothing in it the gun you put up. 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 good gets up when we held demonstrations for fair compensation and on one occasion we closed down the company's conveyor belts for a while either you know misunderstood then the company filed a complaint against us claiming that we were trying to damage their business which they're going to means 10 of us were arrested but then sentenced to 10 months in jail. that was later reduced to probation of up with the gun industry like to mitigate 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 up a stall is causing an 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 to buy you know to hold your people in the old fail it's there were lots of people feel they raised crops or had livestock where you know they're going to get a whole year to qualify for resettlement here in the new village they had to sell their land to the company. 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 all the us if you're honest enough 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 as his 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. there must. be the biggest build up were made to be seen at the power company measured in 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 island that may not like. some raise livestock like sheep most of them grow crops like potatoes and corn your year. so the company will take away their land

what's going to happen to those people well if you thought you. got beat 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. most of the time i like it be enough. 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 blubbered ignore me we're not only surrounded by the mine the water is polluted and the pipes are old and full of his 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 listen his 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 of your own but we decided to move here for our children sake. the family get away from the pollution most. of the others and he would have preferred to stay in the 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 mine and i could opt out here in the open with it's a double edged sword. we'd like to have jobs and a clean environment but around here we can't.

thank god we have our jobs with the power company. also. everyone just tries to do their best with what they've got to have thought a. couple good parents used to dream that their children would study hard get a degree and find a job similar to the bottom of the but today that's not realistic. then if we just try to make sure that our children get a good education. we have no idea what their future will be like. should they learn foreign languages and move overseas we didn't. 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. nikos for yet c.t.'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 your business remember of anybody you know on a limb to let me be there's no future for them here like milk is all about they're 1614 and 12 years old the got that sarah will sure they go to school but there are no opportunities for them around here while they are alive any part of to get yellow. you know you're going to go german is good but i think chinese would be better imo but you know you got out of the universe. but i think i'd prefer russian you keep your spanish.

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