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tv   Polluted and Poisoned  Deutsche Welle  July 26, 2024 1:30pm-2:01pm CEST

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the deal, but just reimbursing the watch now. the renate of the logic is waging a battle against the authorities could do nothing in the face of an imminent environmental catastrophe. here at the side of a former chemical and arguments factory toxic waters threatens to flow into poland, vist dealer river, and destroyed the ecosystem for the activist. it's a grueling fight. what is that? the alarm and the cost is supposed to come in. i pay a very high price for what i do go. so it means a lot of hassle, not just for my private life, but overall, you know, she would cushion stocky. but maybe there needs to be someone who points out that
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what's happening here is not right. pushing in utah in the history of poland and also of the world. we have always been people who were pioneers, all at each of them who were able to change everything cause of our people too much as me know. the notion of was, is that the side of the former is doctor and chemical plant. if it goes during the 2nd world war, germany produced explosives and gunpowder here. then from 1948 on it was run by polish authorities. c c c later, the plant added chemical production, the for decades,
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toxic substances steep unimpeded into the soil, contaminating the ground water. the reason the this is one of many areas on this side of the former plant. nearby was the pain department. today the social welfare office is just about 300 to 400 meters from here. hold them. my mothers with their children and many other residents go there. full, you have the right 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 looked up and up of the next to me. nobody does anything. it doesn't seem to matter to them. even the environmental agency ignores that when he leaves on the saw him was
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a company, the size of a city. it had 20 kilometers of robots, 70 kilometers of train tracks. even its own train station. there was a hospital stores can teams, 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 fuel. for 6 years now, she's been fighting to get this toxic waste land decontaminated. she writes letters to politicians, dress petitions, miles, complaints with the police,
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and spreads the word on facebook. so far, anything, no one in us already 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 the 45 year old is a trained a gerontology test who could be taken care of elderly people. she previously taught nurses therapists and caregivers how to look after seniors or whatever sense she
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started advocating for the environment. she's been unemployed. she says her job applications are rejected. she's regarded as a troublemaker. now the single mother of a teenage daughter makes ends meet by preserving and selling fruits and vegetables . the probably will be sure to be on the interest because after the group sees the 9 meg preserves, it's more uh more just like my mother used to use 90 percent of the preserving jars in the basement or from her mom's session, particularly to hold. since i have no income and don't earn anything else is from this is very good for us to call 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
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a village right next to the former plant. the former premises obsession occupies 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 to dilapidated production buildings. new businesses have settled here, the june, the gushing us of, i'm the not the of was you. renate of logic is meeting with former plant workers
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and new museums that they do not want to give their names out of fear of repercussions. me village, you work at some of them for long or 30 years total at the plans. the teams at zach them directly came in pennsylvania. nice. mm hm. i sent you uh, 40 years. so the she lost the remote up was it wants to know about working conditions of the plan. how safe was it the weather 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 the 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 the said already turn blue. i was admitted to the hospital in state for 8 days,
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and 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 causes. this also is, are you still in contact with your colleagues from the unaligned department today? no. i liked why. there's these people on to in this well usually died. no, probably most days are looking for somebody nearby printers, evans, i'm lucky to have worked best so long usual. mm. that goes on. did a lot of toxic chemicals get into this the me i bought for by the soil and i don't show much any to know it does how 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. 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 to know how
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polluted the plant site is and they say that the soil should be replaced and the site decontaminated. so why is nothing being done? 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 because there's a lot of green array implants. everything's beautiful. and what conclusions are drawn from that? and this is if it were really poison, nothing would grow the bad. the perception that these are feature that russian, 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 says on, gosh, oh my god, i don't not prompting you to buy what perfect the,
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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 i thought we suffer from cancer and while you looked at the close to your brother died as lung cancer, i found you, my father is bone and throat cancer. got it all is because uh, some of our neighbors also have kids. he either to water cancer and breast cancer. oh, the music display 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 what come you from us,
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but i've number of i present at the same vision. you've had the multiple testing. i have a daughter with a disability. she is janetta damage, and yet no one knows why there's most of the successful tests. so that's, i'm fixing you. well, i also had a miscarriage, some bullet glove this mm. a bit and you are, we often have headaches and burning noises down there. we travel, just go to stop them. but as soon as we return, we get headaches. again, i should be there, i start to birth because she's like, you some, these are the, some of the of the, this is just because, i mean if i'm not positive ownership, it's effects of, you know, she, it's all just swept under the rug equity and everything is done to prevent this massive problem from coming to life talk is that 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 the going from. it's
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the to say, think this is inquiry. i'm going to, what's this my boat paper source, that's the g o scientist, money use chop, and don't talk to the from the h e h university of science and technology and crack of our friends over not of was it money is chuck has been researching environmental pollution caused by chemical substances for more than a decade. like with because he's one of those published several scientific studies . grove is not a door to talk to you. eddie is from good gosh. she wrote her dissertation on this topic. the scientist had been appealing to politicians for years. we made it
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clear that the site must be secured, but nothing's happened. for years eve of pollutants are slipping into the ground. and it's sad that so much time passes between damage assessment and dispose of the whole thing. and so by the soap, with all the scientists, investigations showing urgent need for action. so some stun, 6 to the is. and this just seems, you know, get a seal with all of these substances. especially pablo, cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in organic flooring compounds or mutagenic. and 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 what was about to go to the middle color money use chop fears that if nothing is done, the contaminated water will seep into the ground water. and then into the vist your
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pullman's, most important river life, just a few kilometers from the city. if it goes right next to the former plant side a i'm all of those days of this. that goes. but of it is upon us. i'm you still farm, you know, one who says that, that under our feet there are huge quantities of chemical substances, oregon, you know, know, danica endodontic focused and they all talk sick. so what i could even close come. so it's kind of, they also dangerous because they can move as a long distance divided them together gorski, beneath the surface safety, these toxic substances of traveling several to how much the 20 my directly to the, to the good i need to is i keep this what is that, what's the, what's the bottom of the a spoke with austin. 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 point of on the it was, we propose the 7 years ago practice and it should them, lots of them will cover everything with the layer of the concrete, with them down to an impermeable later in the bedrock. and suddenly coupled was out
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for the people that didn't secure the whole thing kindly from above so that nothing can penetrate your store on to the go to the doctor always involves thing. if it were settled, there are water sampling points at various places. on the former industrial side, the scientists can take samples of ground water from a depth of 14 meters. the water is black and foul smelling, the the back of all the this water would burn all the plans you love. it's just the other thing that brought a bottle of coca cola for comparison. that's a stupid i meant to physical have used expedited shape. i'm usually smart, this is
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a cool kind of cool parameters that we've measured. it says, hey, indicate that the concentration of contamination, dis, bosa is 3 times higher than the voltage. colorado. the color i'm smell indicates that it's um, safe, stable. there's no oxygen in it. position, other organisms couldn't survive it, i couldn't but yes, i will stand you from here and i was stuck in boston should have the vehicle most of the most or just the question is that he's allowed to get up. he should be in contact with this monitor can cause an allergic reaction or a skin rash, and sometimes it can irritate the skin. if you rub your eyes or it gets to the new cause membranes, it would not be healthy, but the water damage is the skin soft tissue for the eyes of the 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 in your mouth, 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.
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yeah, i am jeremiah item. my wife eats the my children to move keith this idyllic pond can be found and we're not to have was ex hometown, not far from the vist dealer river, but a few inches are deceptive. the water from the side of the former as often 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 is flowing into this poem and 2 things. you said it's a rate in the slot to i'm the vis jeanette is right nearby the contaminated voice of penetrates and the stuff is in this area. how much is it? who is the previous account for the of your skills, right?
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so the level of this abuse or thought is that all of these are there are 2 possibilities. exhibitor 1st, the decay of organic substances in the water which leads to oxygen deficiency. and the fish suffocating buildings or a chemical contamination leads to the death of the whole system, the ecosystem of much of some incidents of legal system of systems. colin's most crucial waterway is largely unregulated. so far the vist gyla river has been spared sockets, 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
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shape gosh motor on overseas the environmental agency and because 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 that was on the is us in the cause of a pomeranian province was working and ex, but groups with combs, though they consider it's an important topic. now. let's just keep the good. i mean, i agree to mazda plan is needed as acronyms form assigned to you in which was on the post on this was most, i will, most of today's mazda plan, or any general plan of action of the complex investigations and needed learned from joe on my membership and those haven't been carried down yet. students yes to you
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have it going on. no, he said his agency has no knowledge of cancer cases among residents of wing. all of them, which is directly adjacent to dot com. it'll be small. it's on the zip codes, middleton i go to, we've conducted a health risk analysis for the residents. so when noval fedloan and there's no increased risk that the in the area we started is put this on this, of course, here is the city does not have enough money to conduct them all complex survey of the residence of the villain uses a buzz that'll basically to would prove or disprove on this the safety of diesel is upsets or so $13000.00. however, the cities 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 grams of stuff, and this extensive area is freely accessible. the
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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 valasics battle often feels futile. the cause of them shit balls. yeah, there's a to so you know, now they do everything they can to make my life more difficult to. i keep hearing
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made up stories about being a former director who'd been fired from the environmental agency most forbade me from speaking out about the whole issue. what have you as a 20 took off the top of a job as a customer. when i asked her why? she said that something could happen, jace, your guess? you put them. that's a good one of them is we spoke the how much longer can the activist take it the, the new literally is just a task. doesn't put supper on the table for my child, though, it won't get me a pension in the future. i'm unemployed home 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? we are. i need real support. if i don't get it, i'll give up is i know you may not have wise x hometown of windows
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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 often chemical and arguments plan. her father worked there and she grew up very close to the factory. she felt the effects of that at an early age. the
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yellow digits go, hold on the pizza kind of moved as a child. i was often ill with lung infection. stobel stop who in childhood and elementary school. i got sick a lot and you up with the of the different the goal was just 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 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 old. a ranada of logic relishes the rare occasions she gets to go to this cafe with their daughter. today they have something to celebrate. the 14 year old won a gold medal polish youth championships to
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the camp and to 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? let's do the summit that every day i see how people around me are rived 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 of a sheet or your home so that he's got to be picking up this little bit. but i have nothing that can be taken away from me. my money to go back except for my life me and the life of my daughter goes on moines, which is a 2 way road is gonna be the green auto plaza for sacrifice. a great deal to fight the toxins on her doorstep.
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