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stay turn construction companies. i look, send them the data, is the projects environmental and safety consultants other. so this is a construction site. we'll take the next the next we'll screwed up. i call it like a gold rush. everybody's so keen to to drive on the highway is that of which has a passion for fly fishing. did hope to track like minded taurus, to the tar with the but the construction of the highway, his dash that dream for the time being the all the other websites. i'll probably never again experience this particular spot of the titled river, like i used to have that i bought a lot of with the

the meaning is that as each bent is committed to the upkeep of the tower rizza, he's also the president of a fishing club in crushing for me that the construction of monique rose 1st highway means the destruction of his beloved drizzle. circle forces before mountain rivers. like these have taken millions of years to form settlement deposits which close the capillaries so that the water can stay on the surface of the room for the 3 year. yes. so now that's all been reversed in water is seeping into the ground. plus the river bed has been new, is day according to is the fish are gone in life has disappeared from the river. so we basically have a desert here that i'd say the water level is only a 3rd or half of what it used to me. and i read triple the unspoiled nature of montenegro is its greatest treasure. and well,

this is exactly why to us from the west come here for the service is a sizable portion of one to negroes. longest rizza enjoys unesco protection. for a long time, the population had no idea that highway superstructures, bridge p is, would be built directly on the river that will probably take 3 or 4 years for any fish to show up. everything is all. how do i few extremely sad about what's happened to this beautiful rivers, which should have been saved by any means necessary, but of almost a to and this was probably like kaiser that supported according to european regulations mistress of highway here should have been as short as possible, the cartridge was dead, it runs a full 2 kilometers along the river bank to on

the highway is being built by the china road in bridge corporation or c, b. c. a chinese stay tuned enterprise, but local companies are also involved in what is the largest infrastructure project in mountain eclipse history. the highway will stretch a total of 170 kilometers, connecting the port city of bo. we've probably got a in the north. and we'll eventually run from the adria to see to the via sub yeah . 42 kilometers between the capital put godsa and cor lashing are practically finished. the original estimated cost of this section alone is 1000000000 bureaus. 800000000 of which is financed by loan from china's ex and back. in the meantime, the cost of this section has turned out to be over a $100000000.00 euros higher than originally planned. at exxon domestic isn't montenegrin consultant who has been involved as the direct

just the health safety and environment. since construction of the project began, he was hired by the china road to bridge corporations 7 and a half years ago. construction began in 2017 for a project, incorporating 16 tunnels and 21 bridge is one of the highest bridges in europe. the highest point from the river itself is 200 meters to the level of the bridge. it was very challenging for 5, and the design is really, really difficult to deal with the huge difference and elevation. we have 11000 explains that project. it was one of those things that happened to something either

in the past 60 or 100 years from now. if it can come to the capital and then on the coast for me, it was a challenge and the privilege to be a part of these kind of national national life projects. montenegrin officials hope that the highway will provide a boost for the under develop northern parts of the country and attract more towards the subsection is scheduled to open in a month 3 years later than planned up to 3000 chinese workers are employed on the construction site during peak activity, you know, they're not allowed to, to the media, to the companies communication strategy the, how about how are you? i don't think okay, good these pets. we have soft electrical mechanical installation. so that the singles i need some things for sending policies to 4 months and it shows up in the,

in the software. this is up to the allow the you have to be elements the any, any, any risk from, from me floating down from the thing. and it was really, really strong. some that had to make sure that don't have any, such as the construction company. his face repeated criticism, especially in connection with environmental violations, be honest. this was but i'm not sure that i can. i can speak like this by my, my personal opinions. because uh, politically driven and driven by some environmental and zeros. that negatively oriented towards these projects. because they, they want us to avoid the river. bodies for us will design the routes of the highway we did is according to the conceptual design made by the government.

this is the section attracting most criticism from the ponies to the highway web bridge, p as run directory on the rest of the several kilometers for this particular area we made let me do some plan which was adopted and approved by the environment agency protection agency. as you can see at the top of the phone and put the rossville upon the grass and find some, some, some nice fees and the little green and the river received its, its previous me. so the river course and the river bank, you have to have certainly at least the visual impact. i mean, you choose, but they want to have a high rate on. so, i mean, this is a cost of civilization, but still again, i wouldn't mind even to go down and drink from. from the

mean is that of its fishing club, protected and took care of the fish population of the tara near core lashing until the construction began. at the time, he was one of the 1st people to draw attention to the impending damage. the project would cause. and the 1st group to listen to him was an engineer called man's sound performed driving the phone before we begin to question why a highway was even allowed to be built, that we were trying to find out if the state was managing construction properly and whether environmental instinct is we're doing that joe, that others work well. so i'm not sure that roberts flipped them is a government declared vital information to be subject to state secrecy. it was by no means unless we still don't know where the money went. now instead of 800000000 euros, the highway costs over a 1000000000 or closest from the score status of the community out of the man's is

financed by the new deals primarily with corruption, an organized crime. the n g o has also found evidence of nepotism and wasted public funds during the freeway project, and assuming cases of incompetence. so you think the revitalization measures are insufficient, almost only cosmetic, at best. the most damage was caused by excavating right in the river itself. they clean their machines and metadata, and the cement from those machines, damage the river, especially young fish. the cement gets caught in their deals and causes them to suffocate. nicola seen the time, it became as brown as earth. it was devastating for all river life. we tried to fight and organized protests, but the government refused to hear us. the only sort of listening when months also

began criticizing supports for months. montenegro is currently seeking you membership, but the country's debt has increased significantly because of the highways construction. the project as part of china stuck road initiative, which has been investing around the world including in the balkans months and he goes current parliamentary speaker was instrumental in developing plans for the highway and negotiating the project for the chinese at the time even by of which was minister of transport nice for me. but the man we never said no to the e. u was business, but they were just no serious offers me a meal. and i understand your not the thing is that still the simplest concepts of why we chose a chinese company is that it had the best and cheapest of the technical. i'm some useful customer. the critics attack of saying it was a highway from nowhere to nowhere where i get an adult, somebody slowly please feel free to call it. in fact,

what could we started with the most difficult section of the type of root and use so that we could have a nice, you know, hands with you and implement the rest of the highway with the private and was full public financing quite them, most of them on the phone with some of the units that i didn't know if we can pretty luckily i don't know, but that's where the rest of the funding will comes from. remains unclear. needed is none of which house is located in court lashing not fall from the tara, where he and his friends remain. i would fly fishes. the media has trying to make the winter resort is crushing, appealing to fish interests in the summer. but the damage to the tower river has ruined his plans. those small bits and then usually add a drop of nail polish to firm it all up up. your problem is and sonya, my dream was to organize a world championship for fly fishing and montenegro school programs. the benefits

for local residents would be a normal site and that's where all the envelopes is. anglers are good taurus sort of shot. you also, but mostly belong to the upper middle and upper class abuse, and they have disposable income. they like to spend, or you might with or you don't know. and so the poor throw should and extend the med tech to only sit on the highway construction site every day to ensure everything is perfect ahead of the opening. as i said, everything will be here. you have also police station firefighters service area. and the come on the face. the c'mon center is the brain of the highway. the around $560.00 cameras has been installed along the $42.00 columbia to stretch all of the

connected to small software that will ensure maximum safety for the future road uses for the associates, a call would slow down, then they will focus on that old car would stop to go reverse, although it's just too fast. then if a smoke up would appear, then you have special especially design software to recognize the small basic at the most sophisticated software, which is still on the, the preparation also on the ground china road and bridge corporations. software developers who's come to montenegro from singapore and malaysia. so the subset of everything is gonna be the time. yeah, that's the, on the system. on the final, cnbc is, is delivering good from best product to citizens. and i'm sure this will save many lives in the future. thank you very much. you might, on the highway is still

a work in progress, but some drivers already enjoy using the completed sections as a foster route to put a quite a few which is a big safety issue. product. send them up that they just drove into it all. yes. and they put their foot down, they passed to me at a $120.00 last the optional. what are they getting? they don't know. are they bribing someone? i really have no idea. sites. it's really difficult to to 5. is that every, every single day? 24 hours. okay, thanks for now. all that's in wait for them. then when i was suppose to step products, are they the ones who came in and smoke? that's okay. let me know if i'm yeah. yeah. catching the illegal pulse process of,

of success security at the end. and if i see something suspicious, i call them to, to block and call police. you can say a few minutes later, alexander has located the rogue driver's vacation. this from sub you too. i'm too much of a hurry to get to be a drastic coast the afternoon. you know, this is a construction site. yes. you have to go back out where you drove in. otherwise you'll be find, find the police police. this is a construction site. it's close to the traffic, but gps let us here drive to the next day. so i call it like a gold dress. everybody so keen to to drive on the highway because the cottage roads drive would be the typical option is extremely narrow and dangerous.

the old road was built in the 90s, seventies, and is currently the only connection between the capital and the northern parts of the country. and we have just just 2 lanes of the road. and then you have a right a box. and then you have a big like a canyon, a big rock pulling down. and it's, it's very narrow, it's very curvy. then we have lots of trucks, lots of buses, and they have to drive slowly. and then they drive slowly, then you pile up. hundreds of cars behind people drive fast, want to overtake and if you want to avoid a car, then it just lead over to the rails has been many so many victims. tough with accidents along this road a year ago, a colleague of alexandra is also had to stay til accidents here. one of the strongest arguments cited by highway advocates is that the project will help to

avoid further such tragedies that instead of going to damage from the man's and g o has documented evidence of how regulations and laws have been bent and broken during the highways construction the government has granted extraordinary concessions to chinese investors in all subcontractors involved. c, r b c, cause that is up when cnbc realized it was expensive to dispose of construction ways that they came up with a projects to regulate the river by dumping it all along the banks, claiming that it would prevent flooding away pretty charles tire. but his meal has already said, they basically just lift piles of garbage from the tunnel drilling. is that a completely changing the character of the tower with us, which has become the dumping ground? so rubble and debris from the tunnel useful fall on your lot cordial. so what do you think that and that's certainly one of the marietta accusations gravel has also

been taken from the tara, which is strictly prohibited in a sense that lead the c o, b. c to be charged and find one of those non where. yes, the so, so we know that all the fines imposed on c b c and this sub contractors were very smooth and not nearly enough to cover the damage close to the re the there was so many problems with this project and that it see it was something the 3 minute, i guess the most glaring example that the montenegrin public has learned about joe is that the highways may in connection to go. it's the smoke about the flu. we simply for dosing at borders and start lying around the point where it says she was not even part of the original agreement. it was added later. it's a great cause a lot deal, oregon our products, uh, not somebody to go out on the coolest. we need a highway on your house. so, but it needs to be done in a way that serves the public interest of or then doesn't just line the pockets of privilege companies and individual states in the i know not trans up the company. and for the civil do we have been equate to benefit?

see it of a sudden down pull changes, the sounds plans he's driving to visit someone who's properties, right on the highway of the most of the people like patty shell, bicycle beach are an important source of information. so as the patient is it the same 7 to quote cases because the construction materials used in the so called risk management and stuff and he's gotten which is right next to one of the towers. cubic feet or 2, something like that was just dumped on my field. not to mention the big stone. you always have the form you didn't scroll from a. this is material that was dug out of the my tissue time on is. what am i to shovel 3 is for 5, i knew the over there is the tunnels x. it will go through the some are you going to is that need to know what that was taken out of that tunnel and ended up here in the gardens use of a is the general view. little don't watch. we tried to get them to take it away.

that's cool. but it's dave here, i'm sorry. what was that? their problem. you told me a lot. of course this is a problem for me to call you bet on. i used to be able to access the river directly fit them. now they've built this protective lot. you got them. scott says all of it . and it looks ugly and you never know. yeah. so you split your little or used to be able to look directly at the river from my house. i've been remote now i have to walk around or climb up there or no, i bet felicia, he's abandoned. he's gone into full years because of the construction site. mila has visited today. natasha cove activity. she's an environmental ex, but who works for the n g o bank watch, which scrutinizes investments by international financial institutions in terms of environmental and social criteria. the loan agreement montenegro has entered into it's china is controversial and the big talking points in the countries relations

janet communicating this national. i'm not blaming the chinese name is i'm blaming a government. it's not something that does hold nigrama, whichever. uh, can i ask who i'm in the state that will charge montenegro be unable to repay the loan, installment the contracts, and allows the chinese investors to claim on to meet with state property as compensation, equity, and excuse me, my, most them you for the most unlikely them and that could affect strategically important assets. steve truck up up with a symbol. for example. appleton barley, illinois. the next you can do defendant before the railroad claim or is that it doesn't say stuck with that level. so this is a danger that has already become reality in other countries will try the course of which costs daily or through games. i mean, i'm of that stuff. so the only trade routes are of great interest to china. it is, it's one trillion dollar new silk road project aims to open up the countries access to markets in asia, africa, and by the balkans to europe. so to ever take you through this stuff and get them

in this level that will come out to him on with the we have a week democracy, save and a not country. it's investors with pretty aggressive kind of take us to the, to the ones with influenza them yet, but kind of grew to even the bulk and countries like montenegro as the by a to a new member shadonia that becoming increasingly oriented to truly nice investment . in skinner's k, with state government feel more comfortable working with the chinese government and chinese investments. so probably because best on that, so not the same. and the more convenient if you had a less than a full portion of understand that the new a nice family will right now it's on 3 a when or even to build the 2 missing highway sections to the coast and to sub. yeah. so this is the end of the road, so you can see and the 42 kilometer long highway a this is the,

the hill called especially big this it will be the next challenge. hopefully we'll see how to be see the next phase from under it. so i bet on there is to serve in boulder and i, and i highly appreciate the chinese investors and satisfaction bank. and i think in the balkans, easiest to to work with best quality and develop over the country. now if, if you would be a well bang for your opinion to make some calculations on what you need to do, then we wouldn't start in 5 years or 10 years, or 15 years. and we have to think of ourselves 1st, but meet it as that of each and the technical vector beach on just thinking about themselves that thinking about future generations as well. that's why for them the price of the highway is just too high. the pretty little i look here for example, see you can see it on the bottom on yes and on as it is a hold. yes,

i can see it. so that's a lot of a small one. the to come in. yeah. well the the tell you there is love it here and there are more here. yes, ontario, some tiny crayfish. oh. let me pull this up over to you have no idea on it too. we are in an area here that could be a good, happy touch. the trout and other species of fish buddies, but the buffering with the blue give us that if we're talking about babies to have the same on no way to be seen here to pro exactly yours, but it's a shame i used to fish this part of the tub all the time, it was full of fish wherever the la puente river on us. this is a unique feature is monique, where's constitution? isn't the 1st article declares the country to be an ecological state. but the

government and the business and industry sector has been failing for years to deliver on this patient that the, you know, be a while you probably won't see of a ton of return to the way it used to be alone across the country club. maybe some day will recover what not in my lifetime, probably the motors you opened the

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