is enormous. the cleaners or sworn to secrecy they are not allowed to talk about their work. and no one asks how many are doing. and when. i need to stop there's something wrong how can. do social networks have any social responsibility at all. cleaners social media's shadow industry starts junee on d w. donna. the car mining region in northern crease many people here used to think of brown coal as a divine gift. the mines created jobs and coal fired power plants brought of a tricity to all of the grease but today the coal mines are controversial.

these are not rain clouds it's coal dust. and of atomic and 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 my go get this work is vital for us we need to pay checks to feed our families for the most of the man who work here have wives and kids get weeded out of southern a big. up us $1.80 s is 33 years old. right now he's on his way to work he said demolition expert at a mine that's owned by the government run energy production company. up

a stall is his father jani also works at the mine his father worked here to. make. up a stall 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. i mean that i'm about well but my mother was from the village of key toss. it used to be right here where we are now. but it's not about the residents had to move to make room for the mine my mother and grandfather lived in advantage. of the distributor 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 lose some of the love of the 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 to go to have to leave their land and now they're stuck in a high rise apartment building. block with the job with my. father used to grow crops on this land and now we're destroying it. but. this is the i used to me trio call fire 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 cafes. it the 5th day because they put up every business and all the local residents depend on the power company for income a good deal kosovo giving. thousands of people in this region happy 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 greece's economic crisis. this comes at a time when other countries are winding down coal production there will almost certainly be job cuts. you know them of us who knew that if the coal industry shuts down here a lot of people be unemployed and of them that's scary. moment but i shudder to

think what could happen but i'm. a little bit. i wish my other son could find a job here the thought of big of a little of the girl who my daughter had to move overseas she went to dubai because she couldn't find work and greases of the afford to go 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 hard and speak several languages. we friend her diploma is a. 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. don't meddle the video when i think about my children's future.

i think it would be better if they shut down most coal production. because of the pollution. is as tricky of the men i think that they want to keep but instead some of it if you know. i'm terrified about what would happen if we didn't have cola anymore or to minimize it. but the mines continue to expand production and dangerously close to the surrounding villages including our creamy lots of people there have been hard hit by the mining companies business practices. yet 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. what 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 you thought you'd have 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. skeff bowman i'm a doctor sometimes i think about just giving up

a lot of good but that's hard to do it might be 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 pollution problems. or about half the up of a few down on your definition the company didn't dispose of the coal ash properly they just left it lying around like. 300 eggs on the back of some of my neighbors cows got into it and they went blind on. your game and i think maybe they 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 a wheel that used to be the mayor here. he stops by occasionally to feed the dogs and to remember the village as it used to be. if you go again 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 the snows a long journey the winter here and if the village is cut off from the outside world they want to look after their flock. well going on as and there's an older couple they had 7 children and kind of 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 their house is the only one that still has electricity. minute there's no running water anywhere. near the. 2 shepherds get that electricity from a generator. and they get their water from the animals drinking troughs what this is what is going to give us a better mobile giving levee. if they carry the water home in buckets for. them

because. the older couple didn't want to talk to us neither did the shepherds. for them because of the roof this used to be the center of the village. because they knew who my parents' house was over there. it had a cafe to. work with what you got little mini mart there was a mini market on the ground floor of my house on the opposite side with with me my ticket to the. government to pay for the mobile they were going ago that i had some income from the cafe and the market. when people started leaving the village. both businesses shut down my view with with a you can see we can't compensation for the property. but not for the income that we lost when the businesses closed or the supporters from throw him up on.

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 morrow p.u.g. filed a lawsuit and the case is still tied up in the courts. your couple . my father in law's house was over that the house was torn down in the home of living with no one had used any electricity there since 2015 but we still got power bills and. until last month we were getting bills for electricity that we hadn't used. but on top of that thora his film charges for local taxes and utilities like

water sewage treatment and garbage disposal of a part of anybody who didn't even though those services are no longer provided people if you don't pay out you'll get into trouble and the vent of often they form a little known bottle back on chaos from start to finish there's just no end to it i think it can. really. row to the village used to run through here or you can buy and we noticed that a cracker developed and it was getting bigger and of course from a guy long it was about 3 and a half kilometers long if you 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 mop up a year. i mean this is all that's left of the courtyard in front of the churches and nick allow which was built on the edge of

the village. there were over 50 heck tens of forest land there will be. put up with america. 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. all this for coal fired power production that's being phased out in germany the landslide in moscow p.-e. took place in 2010 in the village of a not guilty about 30 kilometers away there was

a landslide in the summer of 2017 also near a coal mine. or east coast cut a p.d.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 base their vote utility gives 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 up what do you know about that is 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 recall it was cup is you know what you think it would just be good that you're here they should have warned us earlier to leave it was a bit of going to get on with what but i've been a figure with most research either thought it might be a kind of everyone saw that the cracks were getting bigger and bigger. we

complained about it for a month you know unicode the day before the landslide some company representatives came out and said that there was no danger of going to settle this case until they started moving their equipment away from the mine can use in the muslim side cause damage there to move on is the key they both got us the thing up with the approach of one of my cousins and off to it they said that they had expected a landslide but nothing like this i looked at those from with no. 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 on the covers the need to harness support my put up where you were

lever you up we're going to show i worked my entire life to buy this house because it's the only asset i have if it was. a situation is just awful. for people living the good of the speech all the people around here have moved away and then i was gone to the town of told them i you do you have to if you were to put up on 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. actual than i was then you know it's the gift of this what happens to the older people or large families legal again how they manage their money that they have nothing when it begun you but. i restate 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. there's a couple for us that we think understandable good to get so we held demonstrations for fair compensation and on one occasion we closed down the company's conveyor belts for a while. then the company filed a complaint against us claiming that we were trying to damage their business letter going to mean is 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 me to be at the end of slowly. i raced as 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 k.v.

have long since lost their trust in the authorities. this is the home of demolition expert oppa stoli scuzzy 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 had to hold your the people in the old fail it's there were lots of people feel they raised crops or had limestone 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 and that's expropriation to me that it's tough to start all over when you have no land the few advanced who have jobs with the power company like me moved here if some others left the country and went to germany all the us feel the need to know 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 gobble made the senate the power company measures an area on the plane and decided to confiscated a total of $1250.00 hectors. up to 90 percent of the villagers make their living on that land that made in the back. up 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 it on their own 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 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. we want to remember that you're going to mean 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 op a stall is in 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 in i was born and raised in that village.

but we decided to move here for our children's sake. but then to get away from the pollution. their mothers 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 mighty market up out here in it 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 and we're also curtiss. everyone just tries to do their best with what they've got to have thought. a couple of the parents used to dream that their children would study hard get

a degree and find a job similar to the bottom up about today that's not realistic. they need which is trying 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 or we don'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 in some certain do you think you need the actual room 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 boss and agreement of anybody to go on a limb there let me be there's no future for them here like milk is all about their 1614 and 12 years old the got this or are you all sure they go to school but there

are no opportunities for them around here they are a lovely part we're broke. you know you're not to go german is good but i think chinese would be better but you know you got out of the universe and. i think i'd prefer russian you be more spanish are you.

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