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a real environmental disaster is happening here, perhaps one of the worst in europe. this is sandra manfredi, a rebel and a whistleblower. and he's been raising awareness about troubles at the quarries for years. we managed to build illegal activities at this quarry here. and it was one of our biggest victory allowed me, but it was bitter sweet. because right afterwards, they loosened my car's wheels, and i could have died driving through the mountains. one died now. i

didn't want to kill madame. she's got the lesson on the list of it. everyone thinks the marble is being excavated for the duty to make sculpture and art all. there was a firm, but it's actually made into powder or used to produce medicine, toothpaste or paper for each of god. it's now a mining area or didn't on the certain, the worries aren't even genuine or as fascinating as they might have been before. the gen, the general. everything has been devastated. it all and these box of marble concealed quite a bit more. di behind these fortresses of calcium gaped open wounds scars carved into a unique natural parked the appoint out from trojans, forum to the pantheon in rome. and the famous statues by michelangelo can over all of it was torn from these marble veins in tuscany

the until the 1980s corolla and its white gold experienced and economic and cultural boom. everywhere in the city, you could see artists and workshops. the marble was processed on site 40 years later, this magic has disappeared. a modest sculpture festival attempts to prove the contrary . but even tourists only have a fleeting look around. the quarry owners want to convey the outdated image of cultivated artisans with a passion for sculpting marble. the reality today is that they brain over financial and property empires. or in the i'm and i,

p z i. e vibe. michel angela would walk over here and pick the models to his sculpture there. in my more the p, a to the slaves, or update john. he chiseled many of his works from the local marble. during the operation increased on franco butter. teenie is an expert and he owns the famous michelangelo quarry about 1000 meters up the on this morning, his machines are cutting a new marble block straight from the cliff face. thursday morning at 1 pm, the mountain guy and we took the block out of it. but she found we stand at the bottom and drill around beside. nice and straight. first thing that she,

that when we use the diamond wire, saw to finish the can't get up. you come in, this is the wire. we use the water, cools it down and the diamond cuts jamante, it used to take 20 days to remove a block. but now it's just 10 hours at most and sometimes even less. sometimes treasure is found, a vein of a pure marble due to its translucence start to arial or star tears marble, such as a high price. the britain, this is a step, worry a vain, and that's ordinary marble. she missed. so it's not totally pure, but still a nice specimen value that you can use it to make model flooring and many other things. the fact that on the international market, there is

a high demand from china and the gulf states. marble for construction costs from 150 euros per ton, up to 3000 years, or even more, depending on its quality. not being faster and mean after all, i already worked in these quarries as a young boy and i've done everything she sent us and i'm still here office 67 years of work. she said actually more like 140 because we always worked from dawn till dark. she never unlike today where you go home after 8 hours to organ. franco martini isn't interested in environmental protection. he sees these mountains as a gift from nature, an inexhaustible inheritance the microsoft pro. it's in alton,

environmental. it's the opposite. it's wonderful when these quarries are like, feel the farming or imagination. nobody is destroying the mountains. for barre that'd be like saying, you could drink up the ocean for that matter. i don't think we can drink up all the ocean dish or it's the same here. mine, jerry will never be able to eat up all these mountains. the variable we do is make a little cut, the very just a little card. you understand? we're not destroying them. mano, and she manjens me. me the landscape formed by the quarries, however, tells another story. sandra manfredi checks if a quarry has really been closed down, or he exposes illegal practices. it's the only way he says to stop this carnage. laquonda shall my tv

for someone directly since our group has taken action with all investigated quarries have been temporarily or permanently shut down money like this one here. so know what that makes for dozens of site on wednesday, the 3 tween about 30 and 40 at april, the the main line . it went to the apple and just happened classified as an irreplaceable natural heritage. and each piece that's removed that is last forever. there are $3000.00 species of flowers and plants and the apple on out is one that's half of italy flora and a few doesn't exist here exclusively. we speak a certain what plants spring up, live, and thrive in unique ecosystem, and are directly threatened by marble excavation, where you can go up to on the up one alps are home to tuscany,

the biggest water reservoir, and the unique complex spend 150 kilometers of tunnels and caves at the current pace, it's unclear what will become of this mountain range. central manfredi isn't the only one concerned in colorado. in 2014, a diverse collective emerged, including biologist, lawyers, and net workers. and some of them are meeting outside of town today, when i say that it got about that she's been murdered, known for its marble and art is just an open pit mine region. now, they can blogs from the mountains, break them down, and send them abroad for processing in a low wage countries. you know, we're just with terrible environmental damage to us getting older well, phi, the benefits of small minority all flows abroad. it's unacceptable.

but instead of the roku, when you cut out a model, you destroy 95 percent of the mountain. it's insane. the business business is based on destruction environment, those that have unemployment among young people in massa and canada. twice the high at tuscany 3 times the time in italy. overall. 3 blow, something's not right, because i couldn't watch them. she could be no need to be more than $5000000.00 tons of marble or excavated for mountains every year. and just 50000 tons of se, used the sculptures. it's totally absurd. pseudo micro kendra today,

only one 4th of corolla marble is excavated in blocks, while the rest is crushed into pebbles and transported downstream to omnia, the global leader in this highly lucrative market. the marble is ground into a fine powder and sold as calcium carbonate, used to produce a variety of products like paper, puddy, glue and toothpaste. swiss company discreetly established itself in the field in the early 1900 ninety's and has been continuously expanding its business with the powder critics claim on your violates legal limits. but in a region with high unemployment, hardly anyone would dare defy the princes of corolla. the only politician willing to speak to us here is the regions environmental director. giacomo generally of the 5 star movement says it in no

uncertain terms in recent years. politics, marble and justice have been a single swamp. pretty much every law has been violated. is what she's a champion, play as they can award, and all that i'm 500 companies employing about 700 workers, ex, model for my mom. what that means, 2800 john in masa and cut on it are linked directly or indirectly to the engineer in north of the needle to chantelle verizon. i dodge a turnover current and generated by the whole 80000000 euros a year to door in the still these entrepreneurs, my pastor, norma, well that it gets increased d b. maybe that's why it is so difficult for them to read it back time long. but if it just up in paul additions, both phones to come to terms with the audio superpower, economic power is concentrated in the hands of

a few people that de dictate local policy on it already. and i wanna get up with you take a look at it in franklin martini's quarry, the marble block has finally been cut out from the mountain. and now it has to be lowered down. ideally in one piece. only now if he getting an idea of its value the the quarry owner doesn't like talking about his turnover, but he does reveal the price of this $30.00 ton block. and i'll take a closer look at it, but it seems to be a high quality block. we won't know exactly until it's come to size, but this kind of block is worth about $50000.00 euros to bank. i mean, he cuts out several blocks like this one each day. and quarry owners enjoy

a lot of extra leeway since they bring business and jobs. this sometimes results in poor safety standards. there have been 11 deaths in a little over 10 years. but at $3000.00 euros a month, the salaries are quite high for the region. and a significant portion is paid under the table. so when it comes to illegal drilling or waste in the mountains, no one complains. but the bar metal, a smudge made of water and marble dust seems to be directly responsible for polluting the rivers flowing down into the valley. say, i thought i could not do these. how can they say the momento, la pollutes environment. change is the thing. the marble pebbles are crushed and the company makes them into a powder again. and we sell the waste product to that company so they can make harmless powder. and now, and this powder from our cussing,

machines is supposed to be polluting the environment that give you a free that feel good while it maybe it's the exact same powder or why we store it in bags. it cannot easily escape the quarry. and then water runs through the bag and there's been filtered feet, so all the marble powder stays here. it doesn't go into the rivers. and sandra manfredi is working with peano son, sony, a retired biologist, to check the foreigner in the center of cora. they start by analyzing the water of a river, free of cory, waste downwards, dots and see if anything is living in this river. we'll filter the water and see what we find off of the filter into the current and you scratch off the rocks.

fax, this should give us a rough idea as to how many species live in the river. hello, can you tell me what's in harrison county? it's funny. little green in there. right. what moves that we have a very rich ecosystem here. density of vein. only sassy counseling. about 20 different species, say i was, meaning the water quality is good, very good on down. not bad won't, will be going to head upstream along another river and continue their experiment. the rain

flushes all quarry wastewater into the river bed. the if i think us, but i know smoking, know animal 90 miley a lot. so call me are they supposed to live buried under this marbles? lunch? it's unspeakable. no, no. there's nothing left to live in this river from the task. let's actually can move there when modern conveying equipment emerged here in the seventy's and started being used to direct metal into the rivers. was the beginning of the end of the ship to from it. everything is covered in my metal and it as it like when a landslide buries the buildings and this is done, i've got the, sorry, it's a biological wasteland. yet it was as

the marble dust immediately settles, creating a hard impenetrable layer. so the mounted soil can no longer absorb the water when there's heavy rain and that's exactly what happened in 2014 terrible floods hit the city. torrance of water rushed down the mountains unhindered and caused the river to burst its banks. the quarries were immediately identified as the cause, and it came in the wake of 2 previous ones in 2003 and in 2010. but this time residence expressed their rage in front of the town hall. the, the absurd response of the mayor is at the time escalated their anger even further . the town hall does not feel responsible for the flooding. the

familiar was sported away under police protection residence, occupied the townhome for several weeks. the rule of putting a loan for the 1st time, the people felt responsible for the chorus and 70000 the car there. we paid for the full no one sold a connection. if all young people take a look in the past to fame, the waste from the quarries i to the bit like sponges when it right. and they limit the risk of saudi that out today. they are no longer protection that they are a danger. in fact, already do the skill in any case, quarry owners like franco bar, a teeny, are digging in their heels, claiming industrial marble production has priority show the

show so that i started out with nothing. i was the poor guy in the world that also the rich, thanks to god. since i've always been healthy and motivated firing, no matter, nobody will ever take that away from me. nobody should know me. i thought it sure nobody will take that away from me. i thought i'll step right over the dead body across see if she can. like i said, whoever misses with my word, barry here in the face with the obvious impotence of the authorities. sandra manfredi had no choice but to denounce the quarries, illegal practices, putting himself personally at risk meter,

although one day someone loosens my car's wheels, i call the mechanical and it immediately became clear, it was no accident. he prepared an expert appraisal and i filed charges for property damage. i mean he survived the ordeal, but it could have been fatal. still, he persists, undeterred by fear or threats. on this evening, he is discussing a new campaign stem one an exam on sheet other than that, we're planning a tour with my friend out there to a director and environmental activists and stuff. and i was on a quarry is in the middle of a nature reserve and we wants to protect the local flora, dumont bacteria breast, or heading off into the mountains here early in the morning that i know for stuck. we like to fun and we're taking a back way through the laura's and so the workers don't see anyone that you throw

in, but we'll have a good view of what's going on in the quarry from above to do so. my last name's janet the way the sun rises over the up one alps. sandro and l berto always leave early in the morning. they have been monitoring the quarry workers for years because of the found someone. it's nice here. they are united by their blood for nature and their fight to protect the afflicted mountains. alberto father and grandfather worked in the quarries themselves to day . he photographs the excesses of the industry with thank you or they don't see the environmental activist is set to testify

in a case about this very quarry. to date, the owner has managed to escape the consequences of his actions. but people out of this quarry has an unusual story. it was actually supposed to be shut down. but after an appeal to italy's top administrative court, he was allowed to open it again and had to come in to see, but he has to stole his waist on the premises, which is highly unusual. cause i could come in for you can see the heaps of crushed marble from here. you did the legally he should actually be required to transport it down into the valley. sorry. the rest of

the 2 men are searching for more evidence. this footage, taken a few months ago, clearly shows how the trucks are dumping waste in the middle of nature. but it's clear to sandra manfredi, why no one is penalizing them to come in with that study owner of the quarry. as a very well known, corrupt politician, though he could always wriggle out of it with that thanks to his connections and continue to work. despite these violations, the, that one of the ship will be in charge. since we've been working with cameras, it's hard to cover up the violation going to school and. and when you recognize film and report them, the authorities have to follow up on that, which was for at least act like they're doing their job and fight a lot of water. i

me why it won't let me do it in the marble, her shape the local identity here since roman times, based on a raw material, a gift of nature, it can only be found. we should emphasize that no one wants to close the quarry, or rather they should become environmentally friendly and socially and economically benefit. because we have never had that conform. but in the me i saw joe russell, dan. so i think we're coming change. it will only happen through a cultural revolution fee for so this can all happen very quickly if politicians and the population pulled together that in, and i did it, and i want to,

the quarry owners are unlikely to accept this chain that we've gone beyond. they will not give up a relatively high standard of living, just like that job. but there's no choice for 600 people can't keep on deciding the future of 150000 others. so on the me. the news,

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