In the feuilleton of the „Slobodna Dalmacija“ of 24th February 2007, the article Managing the Waste (on 16 pages of the A4 format) was published and financed by the Split-Dalmatian District as an impertinent propaganda material.

The article states a series of untruths and deceptions, because there is no word of the Centre for Managing the Waste but about the waste area where valuable components of raw materials containing the waste would be destroyed. The envisaged technology of the „Centre“ of mixed gathering and chopped up of the 80% of the district waste represents the violation of the clear clauses of the Act on the Waste and the Strategy on Managing the Waste of the RC. Such a procedure with the waste causes direct million kunas worth damages and devastation of a broader area, annihilation of worthy but usable components of the waste, the possibility of poisoning drinking waters of the two districts (Split-Dalmatian and Šibenik-Knin), impossibility of living in the central Dalmatian Hinterland etc. Such a project, besides being illegal, represents an economical criminal act and ultimately is immoral. The same “Centre” presents itself not only as a “district one” until 2030, but as a “permanent” centre for a broader area, to which the line train would bring the waste from great distances as says Dr. Miljenko Weis (one of the moderators and the director of the Zagreb waste area Jakuševac). The feasibility study mentions the area size of the “Centre” of 25 hectares, which are increased in the above mentioned article to 33 hectares, whilst the terrain has been already staked out for 20,000,000 m3. Due to an evident colonial slavery proceedings and devastation of space, the local population and ecological societies have shown the determination to defend their rights to living. All competent ministries and other bodies of public government have been acquainted with all the facts. The Lady Minister of environment has been warned and said that human blood might be spilled. Many are ready and proud to defend with their lives their home and the right to a healthy life. Due to the evidently conceived plan of poisoning drinking waters in Croatia, the whole of Croatia is being ever more included in the struggle against similar “centres of waste”.

Such a centre has been falsely presented as modern and of high ecological standards. To take one example, according to the particulars from the Study on influence on environment it has been planned to bring 1,500,000 tons of bio mass to the “district centre of waste” until 2030. If it is separately gathered it could be processed into a valuable compost. However, due to its mixing with the substances of the dangerous waste, it cannot be used in agriculture, but it would be deposited in the “centre”, as the Study says. The above mentioned publication falsifies this fact as well as many others regarding millions of tons of the waste. From the same bio-mass 440,000 m3 of poisonous waters would be created and it represents an evident possibility of polluting drinking waters of Dalmatia. Especially so because the chosen location which is situated at the karst area with dozens of the biggest caves, some of which are more than 210 metres deep. As it has been reliably proven, they are connected with drinking waters. To this quantity, one should add 220,000 m3 of sanitary waters which would be brought and left in the “centre” (!?)Together with the appropriate quantity of raining waters at the waste area, the total quantity of waters would be equal to a pool of polluted waters with dimensions 1000x1000x10m, which would evaporate and arrive to the reserves of underground waters.

The Study also mentions millions of tons of poisonous gases and other substances, including dioxins, that would be produced in the “centre”. Only the quantity of the greenhouse gas CO2 would amount to 1,480,000 tons.

The expenses of the construction of such a centre has been stated to be 35,22 million euros. The same investment is connected with the construction of the tunnel through the mountain of Kozjak, the burning of 36% of the waste in the cement factories of Kaštela etc. The management commission of 20-30% of the total investment is definitely a decisive “argument” of a circle of persons known in public as the “ecological mafia”!

The district prefect Ante Sanader claims that the Centre at Lecevica is the priority of the district. With this statement he has disclosed himself despite the fact that there is no yet any legal or positive decision confirming this claim. It is also clear why he did not support the initiative for the organization of a scientific symposium about the sustainable development in the karst area of Dalmatian Hinterland. His attitudes regarding the ecocide in Kaštela are also well-known. His hypocrisy is even greater because he did not stop his associates in illegal anti-environmental actions despite several filed criminal charges.

The district head of department Tomislav Mihotic hides the fact that he has been appointed the director of the planned “centre” for several years already! The investigations for finding “potential locations of the Regional Centre”, mentioned by Mihotic, are mostly falsified or have not taken place (area planning documents, criteria for the protection of environment, economical criteria, technical-technological criteria, geo-physical research, structural probing, examination of the quality of underground waters, etc.) The Ministry of the protection of environment, the Ministry of forestry and water economy, the Croatian Waters and others have received hundreds of pages of proofs about the mentioned falsifications sent by various ecological societies which demanded discussion. But they do not wish discussion. Numerous criminal charges against Mihotic and other officials, filed through several years, are not being  resolved (number KR-DO 27/05 and KR-DO 105/05 ). It is evident that the word is of a chain of corrupted persons, including ministers and other officials. Mihotic’s statement that “the location of the Centre is not situated at any of water-protected zones…” points to the fact that he accepts the above mentioned falsifications as verified by competent ministries and that he hides the water connection between the location and the spring of the Jadro River (report 92/06) used for drinking water by half a million (in summers even million) people.

The secretary of state Nikola Ružinski claims that the “centre” is the project for a clean Dalmatia. He speaks of a “full appreciation of social moment” although his Ministry does not respect the public insight and public discussion envisaged by law; he dvd duplication even appoints the illegal Commission for the estimation of the study, does not answer the letters, does not enable the insight into documents to the societies etc. He says that the protests are legitimate but uses special police when the citizens protest, imprisons the presidents of the societies etc. Vinko Mladineo, the director of the Fund for the protection of environment speaks about respecting the law and the EU directives and technical conditions while recovering the existing waste areas, but he himself offers the support to the monopoly over the ecological crime of constructing “future district or regional centres” and releases the funds without any transparency despite illegal actions for which the ecological societies offered various warnings.

Nil Kristien from the Danish consulting firm “Carl Bro” states that the European Union had financed from its CARDS programme the study on the feasibility of preliminary solution of the “centre” b e f o r e the Ministry of the protection of environment of the RC made decision about the acceptance of the study on the influence on the environment!!? After the insight into the matter and the demand for his declaring, the societies will check possible other responsibilities of Mr. Nil Kristien.

Marijo Radovic, professional associate of the district, says in the above mentioned publication that the share of recycling in the initial phase would be 30%, and that at the end only 40% would remain. The Study states only 22% of the recycled waste. The Study mentions that 4,500,000 tons of waste would be brought to the “centre” until 2030, whilst the publication mentions 3,765,000 tons of the total district waste. Whom to believe?

The planning manager of the Danish firm “Carl Bro”, Carsten Skov points out that “the very terrain has excellent predispositions for the construction of the waste area of high capacity and a long working life span … and that “the sanitary waste area is planned in accordance with laws…” It would be worth while that the planning manager have an insight into the filed criminal charges ( KR-DO 27/05 i KR-DO 105/05 ), exposed written objections of ecological societies and scientists and other documents with which he has evidently not been acquainted. He got even quite confused when he stated “the already processed waters are drained into the sewage system for final processing”!??? There is no sewage system in the community of Lecevica. Maybe he thinks of tshirt printing natural underground flows and marked underground water track to the spring of the rivers Jadro and Krka, established by the report HGI 92/06. The planning manager should know: that the Study has no yet been accepted; that possible legal procedures have not even begun; that the area plan has not been adopted, and that criminal charges against heavy criminal acts connected with this project are proceeding.

The mayor of the community of Lecevica, Ante Baran, speaks about the “beginning of the development of the Kaštela Hinterland” and “concrete economic effects for all the households near the location of the Centre”. His “argument” is the increase of the quantity of  emission of harmful and stinking gases and poisonous substances (the above mentioned 1,480,000 tons of CO2, methane and other) from 90,000 m3 of air which circulates through tunnels for airing the waste. The growth presented in the Study is in the contrast with the Directive 1999/31/EC. The engagement of the above mentioned gentleman is in accordance with his personal interests already enjoyed by his family.

The publication, in the article “Krk the first in ecology”, correctly presents the ecological system of the separated gathering of the waste, which the ecological societies plead for, but the District does not wish to apply it. By the application of a similar ambient system, and with stimulating economic measures for citizens who apply it, the best results can be obtained in the quickest possible period, so that “the waste centres” and incinerating plants, as advocated by the eco-mafia, are not needed at all. It is evident that the director of the communal enterprise on the island of Krk, Frane Markovic, did not give his support to “the centres”.

Eco-mafia even uses skilfully school children, botanical gardens, blue flags for cleanness etc, for covering waste areas, cement and incinerating plants without filters, radioactivity, noise, the worst poisons etc., in this case even for the projects which will leave these same children without basic life resources: drinking water, clean air, the remaining ecologically preserved areas.

We also think that the members of the PJ, CARDS, Sofrec and Regional centre for the protection of environment for Middle and Eastern Europe (REC) have also been manipulated. The ecological societies will demand their declaring taking into consideration numerous illegalities around the whole project.