Other armor and other its really scary the wind blows coal ash and dust into the village and even in a broad daylight it gets dark you know what its muggy go get this work is vital for us we need to pay checks to feed our families one of the most of the men who work here have wives and kids that we do not use other big. Up us dollars coggan eightys is 33 years old. Right now hes on his way to work he said demolition expert at a mine thats owned by the government run Energy Production company. Papa stall is his father jani also works at the mine his father worked here to. The. Opposite all this and his colleagues are setting up a controlled explosion. He earns 1200. 00 euros a month. Thats not much but hes 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 made that up but my mother was from the village of key toss. It used to be right here where we are now. About the residents had to move to make room for the mine my mother and grandfather lived in advantage. Of the history of the better. Johnnys has worked for the Mining Company for 30 years. He used to make good money so hell 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 it all you have only lived on this land for 55 years it was hard for me to leave im 55 years old so it was easier for me than it was for older people who know a lot like my wifes parents are in their eightys a vision loop according had to leave their land and now theyre stuck in a high rise apartment building. Isnt talking about with them i. Father used to grow crops on this land and now were destroying it a lot of talk about. This is they are used to me trios call fire power station located near the mine. Papa stories 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. The 5th there could be but the every business and all the local residents depend on the Power Company for income a good deal. Getting. Thousands of people in this region have worked 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 lake night supplied half of all of greeces electricity. But now thats 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 greeces economic crisis. This comes at a time when other countries are winding down Coal Production there will almost certainly be job cuts. To this if the coal industry shuts down here a lot of people be unemployed and of them thats scary. But i shudder to think what could happen to them. A little bit with i wish my other son could find a job here the thought of big of a little of the moon my daughter had to move overseas she went to dubai because she couldnt find work and greases of the afford to go i got a little of him she simply wasnt able to find a job here to live in the field of the. Doom of the field. She studied hard and speak several languages. We friend her diploma is a. Totally says that in the past the Mining Company would have provided work for everyone including his brother but now hes worried about what will happen next. Door mellowed a bit when i think about my childrens future. I think it would be better if they shut down most Coal Production. Because of the pollution. I like is as tricky of them but i think that they want to keep it instead some of it if you know. Im terrified about what would happen if we didnt have coal anymore. But the mines continue to expand production and dangerously close to the surrounding villages including acri name lots of people there have been hard hit by the Mining Companies business practices. That c. D. S. Used to work as a subcontractor for the Mining Company providing transport trucks. He was forced to sell his familys 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. Weve had to do you know what a few of my familys been here for 3 generations we were here before the Power Company wanted to see what. I mean it was we supposed to do now here. People have been arguing about what are your demands i dont want to leave my village but i want clean fresh air i lost my job i want those coal fired power plants shut down. Skeff bowman im a doctor sometimes i think about just giving up a lot again but thats hard to do it might be im 54. 00 and i have 3 children and the love of. The situation acri me 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 clinician problems. Or about half the up of a few don i mean. The company did not dispose of the coal ash properly they just left it lying around. That one of your some of my neighbors cows got into it and they went blind on. Your game and i think. 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 dont talk about any of this because they dont want to get into trouble. But the village is divided everyone feels let down and they cant see a way out. Now were on our way to the village of modern opihi about 20 kilometers away from our county theres a coal mine near here to. The village just like a ghost town the result of a botched expo preaction 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 a. Used to be. If you go again if 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 or by it snows a lot during the winter here misses like a border and if the village is cut off from the outside world they want to look after their flock. Theyll go again in the us and theres an older couple they had 7 children and kind of you born one of the kids was ill for a long time and then died. They just dont want to leave the village. With us in the senate and their house is the only one that still has electricity who. Think theres no Running Water anywhere. But to 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 the levee. They carry the water home in buckets for. Them because. The older couple didnt want to talk to us neither did the shepherds. Of the back of the who this used to be the center of the village. Because i knew who my parents house was over them. It had a cafe to. Have more with what i got a little mini mart there was a mini market on the ground floor of my house on the opposite side with the with me market. They thought him a big. Part of 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 we cant compensation for the property. But not for the income that we lost. And the businesses closed or the supporters from the truth in my book. The Power Company went to court appeal the compensation ruling and won the case. The new ruling said that after 70 years people would have to pay back up to 40 percent of the amount that theyd been awarded. But in the meantime some people had bought apartments in nearby towns theyve been waiting since 2012 to be resettled the people of modern opihi filed a lawsuit and the case is still tied up in the courts. My father in laws house was over that the house was torn down in the hope of living with no one had used any electricity there since 2015 but we still got power bills and. Well up until last month we were getting bills for electricity that we hadnt used. But on top of that the authorities still charges for local taxes and utilities like water Sewage Treatment and Garbage Disposal of a part of anybody who can even though those services are no longer provided people if you dont pay are youll get into trouble vent the horses they have problem of the moment bottle bottle or chaos from start to finish theres just no end to it i think it can. Really unless the road to the village used to run through here. By then we noticed that a cracker developed and it was getting bigger gulf war i thought my god alone 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 mob ropey ye. Hear the voice i mean this is a little left of the courtyard in front of the churches and the cologne which was built on the edge of the village to be socketed was. Probably a horrific and there were over 50 have tens of forest land there. And then put up with a mug. 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 k f w all this for coal fired Power Production thats being phased out in germany. The landslide in moscow p. D. 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 its too dangerous to go inside. The roof. Be they beast of a people it is more than a he didnt it it got the Power Company doesnt want to pay compensation because they say theres 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 its not a myth its not my job to tell them about any of this recall it was copied to me it would be taken with mr good by you or he they should have warned us earlier to leave it was a bit of an affront to get on with what but ive been a figure with us wed still be the thought even what they kind of everyone saw that the cracks were getting bigger and bigger. We complained about it for a month. But the day before the landslide some Company Representatives came out and said that there was no danger of going to settle this case till they started moving their equipment away from the mine can use in a month but landslide cause damage there to move on is the key they both got us thinking up with a deeper level of negatives and afterward they said today had expected a landslide but nothing like this out of those from a small. 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 theyll get some Financial Aid from the government. For niger but up where youre born i this really hurts we put a lifetime of work into this house and to lose it just like that with me then its tough what im a compass they need to harness support my put up or you really really up with a mystery i worked my entire life to buy this house because its the only asset i have with this. Situation is just awful. For people but the good of the speech all the people around here have moved away and then theyve gone to the town of tolo my you do you have to if you would about up on the time being the companys paying the rent but thats all and i have just finished and. Nobody cared about whether they had enough money to survive there were actual when i was there you know its the gift of those what happens to the older people or large families legal again how they manage their money that they have nothing the gun. I reached says that the Power Company believes its 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 is a couple of us are going to be think of a certain good gets up when we held demonstrations for fair compensation and on one occasion we closed down the companys conveyor belts for a while either you know ms and also then the company filed a complaint against us claiming that we were trying to damage their business thats not going to mean its 10 of us were arrested but then sentenced to 10 months in jail. That was later reduced to probation of up with that coming just feel like maybe at the end of slowly. I restate this 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 its not clear when the money will be paid the people up on our t. V. Have long since lost their trust in the authorities. This is the home of demolition expert op was stolen. 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 a new toy your people in the old village there were lots of people they raised crops or had livestock way you know theyre 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 thats expropriation to me that its tough to start all over when you have no land the few of us 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 that its not 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 arent enough children here. The regions 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 mode here is despondent. So much that even because the government made the senate the Power Company measure to area on the plane and decided to confiscate it a total of 1250. 00 hectors. Up to 90 percent of the villagers make their living on that land that maintained other gobbled up some raise livestock like sheep most of them grow crops like potatoes and corn yada yada. So the company will take away their land whats going to happen to those people will always be like you. Got your feet on the no grandmother some work for the Power Company does that mean that of the 1200 people in the village 200 have jobs and the rest dont matter. We just sit around here and wait and the Company Keeps playing games with us. Like the nothing. The local residents have no idea what theyre supposed to do now its 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 thats been condemned to death. When i remember to go i mean were not only surrounded by the mine the water is polluted and the pipes are old and full of his best. But nobody does anything. No one cares and we have to drink that water you know much of what went on. 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. I was born and raised in that village. But we decided to move here for our children sake. The family get away from the pollution and. Their mothers and me but would have preferred to stay in the village because thats where our parents live theyd be there for us and they could help with the kids but the air is clean here away from the mine im a could opt out here in the coop well its a double edged sword. Wed like to have jobs and a Clean Environment but around here we cant. Say god we have our jobs with the Power Company and we are also curtiss. Everyone just tries to do their best with what theyve got to have taught. A couple of the parents who used to dream that their children would study hard get a degree and find a job similar to the bottom of a bad today thats not realistic and. Then if we just try to make sure that our children get a good education. We have no idea what their future will be like. Should they learn Foreign Languages and move overseas or we do not. Know who lives but i can tell them to stay here and work for the Power Company by hialeah and farming is hard work. So their future is uncertain if they you know the actual. Because for yet c. B. S. Is even more concerned about his familys future he doesnt tap a steady income and the local environment is polluted hes especially worried for his 3 children. 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