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a former chemical and arguments, factory toxic waters threatens to flow into poland to be still a river and destroyed the ecosystem for the activist. it's a grueling fight what the cost is supposed to come. you 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 the most, you particular stocky but maybe there needs to be someone who points out that what's happening here is not right. pushing you. and you talked in the history of poland and also of the world. we have always been people who were pioneers, let each of them who were able to change every thing because of our people. them pushes me know the

a ranada of logic is at the sight of the former as often chemical plants. because during the 2nd world war, germany produced explosives and gun powder here. then from 1948 on it was run by polish authorities. c c later, the plant added chemical production, the for decades, toxic substances seep unimpeded into the soil, contaminating the ground water. the reason the this is one of many areas on the 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. and my mothers with their children and many other residents go there. oh yeah, they live, i rid of one label. there is

a very toxic substance. i'm going to show the photos of the labels to come as a business so they can determine what it is. so yes, i'll let the next to me. nobody does anything. it doesn't seem to matter to them. even the environmental agency ignores that. so going to be the, the saw him was a company, the size of a city. it had 20 kilometers of robots. 70 kilometers of trained trucks. even its own train station. there was a hospital stores, canteens, 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 fumes. 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, and spreads the word on facebook so far in vain. 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

of the 45 year old is a trained gerontology test who could be taken care of elderly people. she previously taught nurses therapists and caregivers how to look after seniors, but ever since she started advocating for the environment, she's been unemployed. 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, was wondering if a good movie on the interest because off the fruit sees the 9 meg preserves a small amount 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 to 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 cast in wing over a village right next to the former plant. the former premises of such an occupying 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. the dilapidated production building. new businesses have settled here, the

june, the gushing us of, i'm the not the of was you were not you of logic is meeting with former plant workers and you want museums that they do not want to give their names out of fear of repercussions. me village, you work at some of them for a long or 30 years total at the plans on the team at zach them directly came in for us for lunch. nice. me. i'll send you uh, 40 years. so just you know, we're not up was, it wants to know about working conditions of the plan. how safe was it? were there 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 a 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 upset already turned blue. i was admitted to the hospital in state for 8 days. i wasn't allowed to leave the bad ones when i went to the toilet and scolded me. my you were in was black connect dismissal. cause of still also is are you still in contact with your colleagues from the unaligned department today? and i don't know why there's these people on to in this well, specifically usually died the probably most days are looking for us with, i mean your why, but there's something i'm lucky to have work best so long usual. mm. that goes on just a lot of toxic chemicals get into the sort of thing there's any offer by that. the

soil and i don't show much any to know it does or 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 help out, i know shaq and i should get the to know how polluted the plant side is. they say that the soil should be replaced and the side the contaminated. so why is nothing being done? are you thinking about these things? 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. there's a lot of greenery implants. everything's beautiful, and what conclusions are drawn from that? and if it were really poison, nothing would grow. that's the perception that these are feature that i can. but

that's 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 to people need to get involved and we shouldn't give up to she is on gosh, oh my god, i don't i probably need to buy with perfect the 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 after that we suffer from cancer, and while you got that the close to your brother died as lung cancer found you. my

father is bone and throat can cause you though, is because uh, some of our neighbors also have kids. he either to water cancer and breast cancer. oh, it does not do that as i'm usually the split of you. i was recently diagnosed with aside right to march mom. not as you know, the smoke or not any living with people small at the moment, but no one knows how it will develop. it's will come you from those, but i've known i've, i've been at the same beginning of the city. i have a daughter with a disability. she has genetic damage and yes, and we knows why there's most of the successful fish the cops which then you well, i also had a miscarriage, some bullet glove. this me a doing it all we often have headache is into burning. i is just, i'm a travel stopped. i'm a little simpler, but as soon as we return, we get headaches. again, i keep it there. i start to burn diversity like you some these are the some of the on the

is because it's just because, i mean if i'm not positive ownership, it's effects of, you know, she, it's all just swept under the rock with jim. every thing 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 the to say, thank you. i think we're going to love this. my both are per song. so that's the jo scientist, some audio shop. and dodo talk to the from the h e h university of science and technology and crack of our friends of or

a 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 is from bid. gosh. she brought her dissertation on this topic . the scientists had been appealing to politicians for years. we made it clear that the site must be secured, but nothing's happened. for years eve of those pollutants are slipping 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 on some spun 6 to the is and this just seems a little bit of seeing what 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 the total, the money use try to use that. if nothing is done, the contaminated water will see pin to the ground water and then into the vist 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 a for the last time you still farm, you know, one who says that that, that under our feet, there are huge quantities of chemical substances, oregon, you know, no gallic endodontic toxic and they all talk sick. so what i could even close come so you send that they also dangerous because they can move as a long distance. the other question beneath the surface safety, these talk 6,

talk to them. this is a traveling several kilometers here on my directly to the vista that i need to is i q this. what is that? what's the, what's the bottom of us, both of those things, the only solution to address this would be to put a 6 are complicates over a different concept. so it was still up to the, it was, we propose the 7 years ago, but like, disney should then we'll have to demo, i'll cover everything with the layer of the concrete, what i'm down to in impermeable later in the bedrock suddenlink up was, was off for the people that didn't secure the whole thing finally from above so that nothing can penetrate is still on to go to the doctor. only give us thing if it was settled. there are water sampling points at various places on the former industrial side or 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 on the web. it's just the other scene that brought a bottle of coca cola for comparison. that's so stupid. i meant to physical heaviest, expedited shape. i'm usually smack this is a co chemical parameter that we've measured. it says hey, indicate that the concentration of intelligences contamination. disposal is 3 times higher than the default. so you can see the color, the color i'm smell indicates that it's on the safe. save or there's no oxygen and it's position. other organisms couldn't survive it. i couldn't but yes, so stand you from feeling that was stuck english. they should have every school, most of the most or just look you've watched and is that he's allowed to get there . he should be in 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 what 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 know nimble, but those are right next to the water sampling point. an older man is collecting mushrooms, doesn't it bother him that they are growing on contaminated land? now you have the most 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. yeah i am the item, my wife eats the my children to move keith this idyllic pond can be found and were not to have was ex hometown not far from the vist dealer river. the appearances are deceptive water from the site of the former chemical and arguments factory has found its way to this place

some. so they're all good. you got the key terminates of ground water flowing into this pullman to suggest that it's a rate in a class a i'm the vist. jeanette is right nearby the contaminated russo penetrates and the stuff is in this area. how much is it? what is the scales on the ocean? you know, right? so the level of this, it give us a thought, is that all of these there are 2 possibilities. exhibitor 1st, the decay organic substances in the water which leads to oxygen deficiency in the fish suffocating, or a chemical contamination leads to the death of a whole this to the ecosystem of much of some, each of the whole system of poland. most crucial waterway is largely unregulated. so far, the vist jeweler river has been spared stockens toxic legacy. but for how much longer. the 3rd is

a tributary of the fistula, and flows through 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 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 on they were suppose on the is us in the cause of a pomeranian province was working and ex but groups was homeless,

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 you in, but suppose on the close on this. so suppose i must go for this mazda plan, or any in general plan of action of the complex investigations and needed the plumb joe on my machine, and those haven't been carried down yet. yes, to musical. no, no. he said his agency has no knowledge of cancer cases among residents of wing, all of them, which is directly adjacent to them. they'll be smelt on those are comfortable and 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 this. the cynthia,

diesel is upsets, are stuck into zone. however, the city's 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 grants and stuff. and this extensive area is freely accessible. 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 who. the trouble isaac's paddle often feels futile.

the pulls at them shit balls. yeah, there's a to so just let me know they do everything they can to make my life more difficult on putting i keep hearing made up stories about being a former director who'd been fired from the environmental agency, forbade me from speaking out about the whole issue was appointing chuckled the top of a job as a customer. when i asked her why. she said that something could happen. jace your case, you put them, that's a good them over me. as we spoke, the how much longer can the activist take it the, the new 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 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? you need real support. usually you're going to, if i don't get it, i'll give up is i know you may not have wise x hometown of windows or plots of land or up for sale. feeling a decline in market value. many here, 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 awesome chemical and arguments plants . her father worked there and she grew up very close to the factory. she felt the effects of that at an early age. yeah, all to do is go hold on the pizza thinking about it as a child. i was often ill with lung infection. stobel stop, who in childhood, in elementary school, i got sick a lot and your poor the, the jump. the goals are to me. i need to go by the age of 10. i'd had pneumonia several times on a permanent respiratory problem. nicole gets computer totally up to instantly um, field a trailer. i had ulcers and boyles to show you. would you be a good today? i know that this was probably caused by contact with chemical simple still just it

. i, we, oh, i am now 45 years old and have the body and illnesses of a pensioners you have to send you all. a renate 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 when a gold medal, a polish youth championships to the capital of them, i would be a bad mother if i didn't fight for a clean environment for my child a uses. however, it is not easy, right? i like to get some of that every day. i see how people around me are bribed or discouraged so that they stop actively fighting for a clean environment. shackleton's new, okay. in other words, look fighting for the health and life. a lot of other people have so much emotion to your home so that he's got to be picking up as the easy. but i have nothing that

can be taken away from me. you want me to go back except for my life medium and the life of my daughter was on moines, which is a 2 way would, is gonna be the green auto plaza, her sacrifice a great deal to fight the talk sense on her doorstep. but even she doesn't know if it will be worth it in the, in the,

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