THE ROUND TABLE ABOUT DISPOSING OF WASTE IN DALMATIAN HINTERLAND
GOVERNMENT CHERNOBIL OVER DALMATIA
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A SHORT COMMENT ON THE ACTIVITIES AROUND THE CENTRE
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 hot-house 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 Lećevica 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 Mihotić 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 Mihotić, 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 Mihotić 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. Mihotić'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 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 Radović, 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 Lećevica. Maybe he thinks of 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 Lećevica, 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 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 Marković, 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 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.
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Dear gentlemen,
We are forced to apply to a broader public because of the repeated and ever more frequent attempts of imposing the idea about the construction of the regional Centre for disposing of waste in the community of Lećevica at the micro location Kladnjice. Despite our years-long disclosing of illegality, arbitrariness and ignorant behaviour towards the population and their region nothing has changed. The authorized institutions and individuals enable with their bureaucratic intrigues the local mafia to realize a genocide-like idea towards a part of Croatian people, and their resettling. It is not necessary to emphasize here the feelings and merits of the folk of the Dalmatian Hinterland through history, and their loyalty towards their Croatian Homeland. First of all, we wish to inform you that we have tried to use, in this conflict, all legal means, what we are doing even now applying to the European commissions for environment, protection of nature and human rights. We have also regularly informed ALL authorized ministries of the Republic of Croatia and even the premier Dr. Ivo Sanader, but , unfortunately, in vain. They all remain stubbornly silent in front of evident illegality and discrimination towards one region and its inhabitants. We shall point out only the most essential legal omissions by county authorities while starting the whole project.
Dear gentlemen, we kindly ask you for help to offer, with your public word and scientific reputation, the support to the people of a milieu in the defence of their right to a healthy life and the protection of a clean environment which is endangered and whose local population and a broader region might suffer catastrophic consequences.
We expect your understanding and help in the protection of legality and our constitutional rights to a quiet and healthy life.
With best regards,
President of the Society ‘Rast': Anđelko Parčina
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THE ROUND TABLE ABOUT DISPOSING OF WASTE IN DALMATIAN HINTERLAND
Conclusion
Industrial waste-dump at Lećevica – a wrong, irresponsible and harmful idea and project
Industrial waste-dump at Lećevica (the so-called county waste-dump of the Split-Dalmatian County) for whose construction some preliminary works have been already done and not negligible funds of Croatian tax-payers spent is completely wrong from the point of view of environment, general ecological conditions and responsibility is a completely missed, irresponsible and harmful idea and project. This is more than evident from the following facts:
• The construction of this waste-dump means a real devastation of a clean, untouched (“virgin”) area, whilst, at the same time, many possible locations, which have been already devastated but serve the same purpose, exist. This is from the ecological point of view completely unacceptable, irresponsible and harmful: a highly valuable preserved area would be devastated instead to salvage and bring to its purpose the already devastated area. Split and Šibenik Hinterland represents an exceptionally valuable area regarding the preservation of its atmosphere, karst, underground waters, biological diversity, as well as historical and cultural heritage. This area should be protected by all means and that with the programmes of sustainable development for ecological agriculture, cattle breeding, bee-keeping, fruit growing, for protecting landscapes, nature and culture, et cetera. There is no, at the moment, a more significant industrial pollution, traffic jam and dumps of communal and technical waste in this whole area. It is therefore ideal for the development of village tourism and recreation. On the basis of all this, the logical conclusion is that, by the construction of the planned dumps and moving the dirty industry into the Hinterland, the whole system of drinking waters would be poisoned, whilst the authenticity of the landscape would be degraded and the cleanest and the most quality area of Middle Dalmatia would be ruined, with all its potentials for ecological agriculture and tourism. • The additional reason why such an approach to the economy of an area should be considered very irresponsible and harmful is the fact that, besides the devastation of a preserved area, water resources of great value would be endangered. Hydro-geologists have already said their word on this. This must be absolutely taken into consideration at any intervention, especially at such which are especially unfavourable regarding the protection of resources of drinking water. Hydrological characteristics of the lime deposits in the area where the construction of the regional centre for waste at Lećevica is planned point out to their marked surface water porosity and very easy tectonic rupture which is a precondition for water drainage and a marked karst underground. This fact point out to a very strict protection of the whole area against the surface pollution. The presented Study reveals serious oversights in its approach and contents: insufficient and irresponsible sum of real competent indicators which might be relevant for a serious professional discussion; many general attitudes without any serious geological and hydrologic indicators connected with the above mentioned location. This all reveals that the Study was previously ordered to show positive results. • It is especially problematic that the whole planned intervention of the construction of the county waste-dump is a conceptually missed and wrong project, in total disproportion with the ecological insights and criteria. Such a concept is totally missed and harmful anywhere else, and especially as this is attempted to realize in a highly valuable and preserved area. The following is the case: a strict and completely separated collection of communal waste has not been planned. The intended project includes a via facti transport of waste to the planned waste-dump, i.e. of unsorted and mixed communal waste. This is in a complete discrepancy with clear ecological criteria and standards. • Waste, or the rest substances/things must be separately collected, which then enables recycling up to nine tenths of waste and thus renounces the need for new waste-dumps, because the so far used areas are quite sufficient for a limited transport of the part of inert and processed waste, of course with their previous necessary improvement. The basic cause of the present crisis around the communal waste lies exactly in the fact that waste, in the present plan, is made into garbage without any need, as it is not possible to recycle the waste and return it into use. It is also necessary to take into consideration that the improvement of the existing waste-dumps is planned and unavoidable anyway. • Also, it should be taken into account that, regardless of the kind of improvement, the waste-dump area has been partly or completely devastated so that it is appropriate to use it for interventions that mean a certain degradation of the area, but not, as planned at Lećevica,to ruin for such purpose an untouched and preserved area. • It is also necessary to remind of the well-known and important data about the communal waste: the third of the communal waste is paper which can be recycled up to seven times; the second third is the kitchen bio-waste, which, when separately collected, can be normally transformed into a valuable bio-fertilizer. The rest are polymerous materials, metal, electric and electronic waste, glass, et cetera. A great majority of this can be normally recycled, which has already been done. For the waste-dump, only the communal waste remains (It goes to the waste-dump of dangerous waste, and it is not even planned at Lećevica! In the present situation such waste would also end at Lećevica!) Instead of a wrong and harmful concept, contrary to ecological criteria and standards, which includes the devastation of the preserved area of Lećevica, it is necessary, in accordance with ecological principles, to organize an ecologically based system for separated collection and recycling of the communal waste.
Dr. sc. Srećko Božičević, higher scientific assistant, hydro-geologist Dr.sc. IvoMaljković Mr.sc, Zlatko Sorić, Prof. Dr. Stanko Uršić, the head of the Institute for physical chemistry in Zagreb, Dr. sc. Dražen Perica, Dr.sc. Sanja Lozić, Prof. Dr. Ladislav Palinkaš, Faculty of Natural History, Department of Geology
At Unešić, May 7, 2005
President of the Society “Rast”
Anđelko Parčina
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GOVERNMENT CHERNOBIL OVER DALMATIA Dear gentlemen,
We apply to you on behalf of the people of Dalmatian Hinterland for your help, for your request for your voice to the Croatian government to prevent the “human” resettling of one part of the Croatian people.
All this happens because of:
Connection of eco-mafia and government functionaries Non-respecting the existing Croatian laws and European standards Endangering the National Krka Park Endangering the drinking water from the rivers: the Jadro, Žrnovnica, Pantan, Čikola, Krka, Torak … Non-acceptance of the opinions of independent scientists and local population Offering of pollution technologies: accumulating waste instead of recycling it Non-respecting the decisions of local administration and covering the criminal activities The politicians who subsist on silence
Dear gentlemen, we implore you to help prevent one attempt of the “human” resettling by expressing your attitudes to the Croatian government.
Let us preserve the virgin area of the Dalmatinska Zagora (Dalmatian Hinterland)
Under the sky your voice is a part of the common appeal for a better and more humane life.
e-mail :udruga-rast@st.htnet.hr
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