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00:00:00were absolved of responsibility for what they had done
00:00:03before. He also raises the question of why the state
00:00:06prosecutor's office does not take official action to suppress hate
00:00:10speech and incite violence.
00:00:12Many whose
00:00:16duty it is to protect the constitutional order of the Republic of Croatia,
00:00:20unfortunately
00:00:22do not take the necessary actions.
00:00:25If you ask the Croatian government, Operation Storm was
00:00:29marked with dignity. Its vice-president and Minister of Croatian
00:00:33Veterans Tomo Medved is ready to comment only on the official
00:00:36part of the program, other
00:00:39activities or events that took place
00:00:43on the margins of the official program,
00:00:46I cannot comment. I can comment on what I saw, what we
00:00:50organized and what we implemented. Persistent
00:00:53journalists asked the vice-president of the Croatian government to comment
00:00:57on the notes of hatred from Knin, but he
00:01:00explains that he did not hear them, and the celebration
00:01:03is still ongoing. What I saw or what I personally heard, I can
00:01:06comment on. What I didn't get to see,
00:01:09I cannot comment on. And
00:01:1231 years later, everyone sees and
00:01:15hears only what they want to see and
00:01:17hear. Nenad Nešić, N1,
00:01:20Belgrade.
00:01:23General director of Telekom Srbija Vladimir Lučić says that he has not
00:01:26received official information that he has been permanently banned
00:01:30from Kosovo and Metohija, and that he has been declared persona
00:01:33non-grata. If that information is correct, such a decision
00:01:37would be regrettable, Lučić told Euro news
00:01:40Serbia and expressed hope that the decision will be
00:01:44withdrawn. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kosovo
00:01:47declared the director of Telekom Serbia an undesirable person
00:01:50and permanently banned his entry, transit
00:01:54and stay in Kosovo, citing as a reason
00:01:57his public statements which they claim
00:02:01pose a threat to the sovereignty and constitutional order
00:02:04of Kosovo.
00:02:07New fuel prices have been announced. Eurodiesel will be
00:02:10one dinar more expensive for the next seven days than it is
00:02:14now, costing 227 dinars per
00:02:17liter, and the price of gasoline remains 202
00:02:21dinars per liter. The government has extended the decision to reduce
00:02:24fuel excise taxes until August
00:02:2716th.
00:02:30Due to fuel problems, the Irish low-cost airline
00:02:34Ryanair announces the suspension of flights from Niš
00:02:37Airport. Unfortunately, we will suspend operations
00:02:40to and from Niš from this winter due to
00:02:44regulatory problems related to fuel affecting Niš Airport. This
00:02:47is stated in Ryanair's response to
00:02:51N1. The airline did not clarify the details of its
00:02:55decision. And on Ryanair's website, the last flight this year
00:02:59that can be booked from Niš is on October
00:03:0224th, after which there are no available
00:03:06flights. And by the end of the news,
00:03:10find out
00:03:14who saw Orban in
00:03:16Guča.
00:03:23Before that, we talk about a pig farm next to
00:03:26a protected nature reserve.
00:03:30Right in Banovo Polje near Bogatić, the president of Serbia said last
00:03:34week that
00:03:37else who might think of doing something like this again locals are complaining about the arrogance of local officials. The family of a local
00:03:40official from the Serbian Radical Party
00:03:43is building a pig farm on the outskirts of the Zasavica special
00:03:47nature reserve. The first neighbors of this farm under construction
00:03:50believe that they should never have received a
00:03:53permit for it.
00:03:56Miroslav Ljubinković's family has been living off agriculture for generations.
00:04:00on the outskirts of the special nature reserve
00:04:02Zasavica, the idyll is over, soon
00:04:06a large farm of almost 1,500 pigs will be built
00:04:09in front of my nose, this is where that pig farm is
00:04:12where my neighbor got
00:04:16a permit from the municipality of Bogatić, otherwise at a small
00:04:20distance from my house, about 57-8
00:04:23meters. According to the location conditions,
00:04:26the neighbor was not allowed to build a farm less than 200 meters from
00:04:30the first house, but the neighbor was not
00:04:33just anyone, it's the son of the former Member of Parliament
00:04:36of the Serbian Radical Party and today's deputy president of the municipal
00:04:40assembly of Bogatić Dragan Aćimović, and the project is partly
00:04:44financed by the European Union with just over
00:04:46400,000 euros from the IPARD fund, on the other side
00:04:50of the future farm, one of the most valuable natural oases in
00:04:54Serbia, Zasavica,
00:04:57where special rules
00:05:00have always applied to locals, regulations were for us here other
00:05:04neighbors, meaning you can't spray your field next to the nature
00:05:07reserve, and this pig farm right next to the nature reserve
00:05:11doesn't even have an environmental impact assessment, investors received
00:05:15permits express. On February
00:05:1813, 2024, he submitted a request for decision,
00:05:21just over two weeks later a decision was
00:05:24made that an environmental impact study was not
00:05:27necessary. Two days after that, the local community received
00:05:31notification of this project, and despite the fact that there is a 15-day
00:05:35period for appeal, the building permit was issued
00:05:39the very next day. We sought answers to questions about how all this
00:05:42happened at the Municipality of Bogatić. In
00:05:46a brief phone conversation, Aćimović told us that his
00:05:49family has all the necessary permits for the construction
00:05:52of the pig farm and added that he has nothing to hide.
00:05:56When we asked him to present his version of the story, he first
00:05:59refused to appear in front of N1's cameras, but promised to
00:06:02send answers in writing. However, after that,
00:06:06there was no trace or sound of answers. It was
00:06:09necessary to conduct an environmental impact assessment study
00:06:13when building a farm in such a sensitive location, says
00:06:17the professor of chemistry, it involves high water consumption,
00:06:20high food consumption, liquid manure production, also
00:06:23air emissions, animal transport, food,
00:06:26waste and also the use of land where
00:06:30manure will be spread. Now none of that in itself means that pollution
00:06:33will occur, but next to a protected wetland
00:06:36area, with high groundwater, the population that
00:06:40uses wells, this definitively
00:06:43precautionary principle must be applied and requires
00:06:46a higher level of expert review. During
00:06:49that time, works have already entered the protected natural
00:06:53area itself. In Zasavica, they recorded how someone in the first
00:06:56degree of protection cut down trees, brought
00:06:59rubble, and filled the land. He built
00:07:03a road for the farm, cut down trees, all normally
00:07:06took his trees home. Footage from a few weeks ago
00:07:10shows trucks passing through the first
00:07:13degree of protection, and for the management of Zasavica, that is currently
00:07:16the only problem. That's why we then engaged the provincial
00:07:20environmental protection inspector who went to the field, we compiled
00:07:24all the letters and reports and submitted them for
00:07:27further action. Have the works been stopped
00:07:31on that part of the plot that enters the
00:07:35reserve? Yes, that has stopped. Has
00:07:38the remediation started? As far as I know,
00:07:41the remediation has not started yet. And how to remediate the life of the whole
00:07:44family that will have the farm under their window? I have
00:07:48three small children who I plan to live there,
00:07:51but what will they live from with so much
00:07:55ammonia, so much of that unpleasant smell from
00:07:58pigs? Meaning no one can tell me that those pigs won't
00:08:01smell, meaning that it will smell. So our windows
00:08:05in the houses will have to be closed all
00:08:09365 days a year. The manager of Zasavica
00:08:12says that their service will monitor the development of the situation and adds
00:08:16that due to everything that has happened, the pig farm in Banovo Polje
00:08:20will become their primary monitoring zone. Miodrag
00:08:24Sovilj, N1
00:08:42of another one reported by tabloids, that
00:08:46the former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was also seen
00:08:49in Guča, although the festival-goers we spoke to did not
00:08:53see him, nor did the tourist organization confirm his stay
00:08:56in the Serbian trumpet capital. The hotel where he had lunch
00:08:59confirms that they indeed hosted the former Prime Minister
00:09:02of Hungary. N1 reporter Nataša
00:09:06Lazarević reports
00:09:08from the first day of festivities in Guča.
00:09:11In these evening and afternoon hours since we've been here in
00:09:14Guča, we haven't met Viktor Orbán, the former Prime Minister of Hungary.
00:09:18Neither have the citizens we spoke to
00:09:21seen him. However, following
00:09:25the information that appeared today in some media that Viktor Orbán
00:09:28was actually in a hotel in the center of Guča, here where
00:09:31he had lunch with friends without any security, as it was
00:09:35stated, had a drink in the hotel garden, took
00:09:39pictures with citizens who recognized him and approached him.
00:09:43Uh, we didn't manage to
00:09:47find that out from official, let's say, sources. So, we checked
00:09:50first with the Dragačevo tourist organization
00:09:54here in Guča. They say that there were no official organizations or
00:09:58protocols when it came to Viktor Orbán's visit
00:10:01to Guča, and that they actually don't have information that he
00:10:05was here at all today. However, we also
00:10:08called the hotel, or rather the hotel reception
00:10:11for which it was announced that
00:10:15he stayed there. They told us that Viktor Orbán was indeed a guest of their
00:10:18hotel, that he was with friends, that he had a drink, had lunch
00:10:22and then left. Where he went
00:10:25we don't know because none of these people who pass through Guča,
00:10:29who have been here all day with their stands, saw
00:10:32him. I didn't know that, I didn't know
00:10:36that. You didn't see him either? No, I didn't see him and I didn't know. If
00:10:40I had known, I would have come. I don't know, I mean I've been here
00:10:43all day so I haven't been walking around to see them and I haven't
00:12:13Lazarević, N1,
00:12:14Vuče. The young imperial eagle,
00:12:18Felix, who was abducted in the Middle East a little over nine months
00:12:22ago, and then returned by a Serbian
00:12:25army plane, was released into nature near
00:12:28Subotica. After more than a month
00:12:31of monitoring, feeding and flight training, Felix showed
00:12:35that he had enough strength to fly well
00:12:39enough to be able to return to nature. Before his
00:12:42first flight, Felix was examined once more, new
00:12:46metal and plastic leg rings were placed on him for
00:12:49identification, and a telemetry device was placed
00:12:52on his back again. The young eagle
00:12:55still doesn't have the strength for long and
00:12:59exhausting flights, and his movement
00:13:01will be closely monitored.
00:13:10Here's the weather forecast for the weekend, our Radmila
00:13:14Mitrović knows. A small drop in
00:13:18temperature is forecast, but it will remain very warm.
00:13:21Daily maximums for the weekend will be up to 30.
00:13:255 degrees, an increase in humidity in the
00:13:28air is expected, so it will be muggy with conditions for local cloud
00:13:32development and occasional showers accompanied
00:13:35by thunder. On Saturday, in the morning and forenoon, there will be clouds
00:13:39only in the east of Serbia, during the day in the northern and central
00:13:43regions it will be mostly dry, while changeable weather and transient
00:13:46showers accompanied by thunder are expected in other
00:13:49areas. A moderate northern wind will blow. The minimum
00:13:53temperature tomorrow will be from 17 degrees to 23
00:13:56degrees, a tropical night is expected in most places, the highest
00:14:00daily temperature will be in the range of 31
00:14:03degrees to 35 degrees. On Sunday,
00:14:07temperatures will also be up to 35 degrees, and conditions for transient
00:14:11precipitation will be mainly in hilly and mountainous
00:14:13areas. From Monday, then mostly sunny and
00:14:17warmer, with a rise in maximum temperature up to
00:14:2039 degrees.
00:14:24You watched the news... Follow our reporters' stories on
00:14:27our portal, our social media accounts. Watch new
00:14:31news and information in our 10 o'clock
00:14:35news. Tonight with you is Filip Lukić,
00:14:38watch N1.
00:15:09Dear viewers, greetings, I'm Maja Štrbac, you're watching
00:15:13the daily review. These are the news
00:15:15we highlight.
00:15:19Gospić residents fear for their health due to illegal
00:15:22waste disposal. Most calls on the government
00:15:26to declare an extraordinary ecological crisis, the association Gospić naš dom
00:15:29agrees, and the Croatian Institute for Public Health tells us that they are not
00:15:33involved in this case.
00:15:38Milorad Pupovac criticized Dorh for not reacting to hate
00:15:42speech in Knin, emphasizing that it is a dangerous attack on democracy.
00:15:57The only
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00:16:01that can be the letter
00:16:02of the law,
00:16:06is that initial letter? Croatian
00:16:07Constitution.
00:16:11More than 200,000 Croatian veterans will receive higher pensions
00:16:15starting next year. The average increase will be around 80
00:16:19euros.
00:16:22The constitutive session of the Council of the Croatian Olympic
00:16:25Committee was held. Siniša Krajač was relieved of his duties. Varvodić says
00:16:29he said enough about his distrust of Krajač in the
00:16:31campaign.
00:16:50Could one of the biggest ecological scandals in Croatia have had
00:16:54fewer consequences if institutions had reacted
00:16:57earlier? After USKOK published the results of the expert
00:17:01assessment confirming serious pollution in the area
00:17:03of the illegal waste dump in Gospić, citizens are demanding
00:17:07remediation and warn that time is working against them.
00:17:11The opposition, meanwhile, is asking the government to declare an extraordinary
00:17:14ecological crisis for Lika and Northern Primorje, while the authorities
00:17:18claim that there is no quick solution for such a complex case.
00:17:21What do the expert findings show? Why are citizens
00:17:24calling out institutions and what are the possibilities for remediation?
00:17:28In Ivan Hrstić's report.
00:17:31Alarming and dangerous pollution has been discussed
00:17:33for months, but the results of the expert assessment, which USKOK
00:17:37is publishing due to justified public interest, are shocking
00:17:41Gospić, Lika and all of Croatia. Citizens
00:17:45demand immediate action. In the expert's report, the Gospić Naš
00:17:48association points out, it is written that toxic particles are dispersed
00:17:51200 m from the waste. Within a radius of up to 200 m,
00:17:55there are already houses from the waste. How is it possible that institutes for
00:17:59public health, the Ministry of Health, whoever, have not
00:18:02given health guidelines to the citizens of Gospić
00:18:05on how to behave in a given
00:18:08situation? Today we have uh, a very hot
00:18:12weather situation, it's been going on for, I don't know, a week, it will last another week, every day
00:18:15the Institute for Public Health issues instructions on how to behave, when
00:18:19we go out, whether to wear hats, whether to put on sunscreen, whether to expose ourselves
00:18:22to the sun, whether to swim, and so on. To our repeated request for a
00:18:26spokesperson from the Croatian Institute for Public Health,
00:18:29today we first received a very short answer. The Croatian Institute for
00:18:33Public Health was not involved in this case, so we could not
00:18:37comment on the finding. Please request a comment from the institution that
00:18:41conducted the analysis and published the finding. It seems that the
00:18:45HZJZ also feels left out of the whole story because no one
00:18:49asked them anything, but again, that raises the same question. Is it
00:18:52really possible? The very fact that dangerous waste is buried in the
00:18:56ground, in our opinion, required an extraordinary situation from the beginning.
00:19:00To our repeated inquiry, a first recommendation
00:19:03arrives. Citizens are advised not to enter the landfill area,
00:19:06not to touch or move waste and contaminated
00:19:10soil, and to prevent children and pets from accessing
00:19:13that location. It is also advisable to avoid activities
00:19:17that could raise dust at the location itself. Of course, daily politics
00:19:21is involved in everything, and we will get straight to the point,
00:19:24so it's a national treason, so we are talking about
00:19:27a serious national treason
00:19:30and, therefore, a threat to the national security of our
00:19:34people. Why do we say it is a national investigation? Because
00:19:38we also tested the water a year ago. The Lika-Senj County Prefect
00:19:42demands criminal responsibility for those who are responsible for it happening. As
00:19:45in the last year and a half, I insist that criminal charges
00:19:49be brought against all responsible persons, from the lowest link to the highest link, who
00:19:53dumped waste here, imported it into the city of Gospić, and that they
00:19:56be held criminally responsible for the crime committed
00:20:00against the citizens of Gospić. The Minister of Environmental Protection
00:20:03emphasizes that before the publication of these findings, they were looking for a contractor
00:20:07who would be able to handle hazardous ecotoxic
00:20:11waste. I would not say that the extent
00:20:14of the ecological catastrophe is only now being
00:20:17revealed. Namely, since the first statement from USKOK,
00:20:20we have been practically talking about an environmental crime,
00:20:24a criminal offense against the environment, about pollution
00:20:27and about the consequences for soil, air and water.
00:20:31Likewise, all initiated procurement procedures of the Ministry
00:20:34of Environmental Protection and Green Transition have, therefore,
00:20:38stated that it is hazardous waste. However,
00:20:41she says, an urgent negotiated procedure does not guarantee faster
00:20:45disposal of hazardous waste, which is unfortunately long-term.
00:20:48We are sticking to the remediation, we want it to be
00:20:52as fast as possible. We openly
00:20:54asked, we openly asked whether in reality
00:20:58there really is an urgent, urgent
00:21:00procedure for the remediation of such heterogeneous waste. There
00:21:04isn't. It can bring 15 or 30 days, but what does it bring
00:21:08in the process of disposing of hazardous
00:21:11heterogeneous waste which usually takes much
00:21:15much longer? We have not received an answer to that
00:21:18question. More possibilities are available. The first ones are on site and
00:21:22it seems they have been dismissed in advance. Citizens are full of
00:21:25distrust towards that and we are not
00:21:29inclined to discuss that option in detail,
00:21:31although, there are experts who consider
00:21:34it necessary to consider. Apparently, the possibility
00:21:38of sending it to landfills abroad, to former
00:21:41salt mines, and then the most expensive one, sending it to
00:21:45incinerators also outside Croatia. Before choosing, the
00:21:48minister says, she will listen to the citizens' demands and will
00:21:52present all options at a joint
00:21:56meeting. Ivan Hrstić, Zagreb.
00:21:59So, the question is no longer whether there is a problem, but how much longer
00:22:03it will last and how that problem will be solved. We will
00:22:07discuss remediation models and deadlines with
00:22:11the deputy director of the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund, Mirko
00:22:14Budiša. Here we are live, welcome to the program.
00:22:17My first question is, "can I get a clear answer
00:22:21from you today about which remediation model will be implemented, when it will start
00:22:25and until when the hazardous waste will be, when it will be
00:22:28removed from Gospić?
00:22:31First of all, good day and thank you for the invitation. I will answer your question
00:22:35as concretely as possible. Uh,
00:22:38according to our estimates, there are currently about 45,000
00:22:41tons of various waste, from hazardous to
00:22:45non-hazardous, at the site. It was deposited in different parts
00:22:48of the site, and that is why we divided the remediation itself into three
00:22:52phases. The first phase refers to
00:22:55the remediation of part of the plastic waste in the amount
00:22:59of 4,500 tons, which is located at the central location around
00:23:02the silos. An open public procurement procedure
00:23:05is underway, the opening of bids is on
00:23:07August 25th,
00:23:10so very soon. The value of this procurement is 4.7 million euros
00:23:13without VAT, and we hope that we will get an interested
00:23:17economic entity that will remove
00:23:20this waste. I would like to remind you that another
00:23:23open public procurement procedure for part
00:23:27of phase two is also underway, these are the big bag
00:23:30bags that we are currently watching, it is about
00:23:33650 tons of non-hazardous waste. The value
00:23:37of the procurement is 400,000 euros without VAT, and the opening
00:23:39of bids is also on August 25th. What is
00:23:42really complex and what will be
00:23:46a challenge is the waste inside these closed halls.
00:23:50So, for which we are currently working on a remediation
00:23:53plan, we estimate that there are approximately 6,000
00:23:56tons of non-hazardous, but we cannot rule out that
00:24:00there is hazardous waste inside. Phase three is this part
00:24:03buried in the amount of 37,000
00:24:06tons. Here we are analyzing several technical-technological
00:24:10options, so without prioritizing which one
00:24:14it will be. It's about encapsulating the waste at the site,
00:24:18so sealing it with a waterproof impermeable
00:24:22layer to prevent rainwater from seeping into such
00:24:25waste, and then also prevent contamination of groundwater
00:24:28and aquifers. The second option is to excavate that
00:24:31waste and transport it to a hazardous waste landfill. Unfortunately,
00:24:35we do not have such a landfill in Croatia,
00:24:39but we have already sent inquiries to a dozen
00:24:42addresses throughout the European Union to see
00:24:46what the possibilities are for disposing of that waste outside
00:24:49Croatia. The third option is related to
00:24:52incinerating that waste, and the fourth, and last, option we
00:24:56are considering is so-called stabilization, which means converting
00:24:59non-hazardous waste into non-hazardous waste through physical, chemical,
00:25:03and technological processes, and then disposing
00:25:06of it as such. We will consider all variants,
00:25:09we will have a multi-criteria analysis, and
00:25:13we will choose the variant that we believe is
00:25:16technically, economically, and of course ecologically the most
00:25:20suitable. We will present this at the end of September to
00:25:23representatives of the interested public from the area of the city of Gospić. Mhm, I hear
00:25:27a lot of big numbers here, 4,500
00:25:30tons, 6,000 tons, 37,000 tons,
00:25:33you yourselves say that actually only on August 25th
00:25:37these public tenders go into implementation, it will certainly be waited
00:25:40until the end of September. Have you cooperated on this whole topic
00:25:44with the Croatian Institute for Public Health, and when we had
00:25:47the situation with the waste in Zagreb, recommendations were immediately issued,
00:25:51here the situation is quite serious.
00:25:53serious in Gospić, the Croatian Institute for Public
00:25:56Health says that when a request for assessment and recommendations
00:26:00arrives at their address, the day passes. They told us that
00:26:04they are not familiar with the case, it can somehow
00:26:07be inferred that they did not actually receive that request,
00:26:11how do you comment on that?
00:26:13Well, you should know that the fund only in the seventh
00:26:17month of last year, by changing the national waste management plan,
00:26:20got the legal prerequisite to be
00:26:23the bearer of remediation, to co-finance this remediation,
00:26:27so the fund is not an institution that should,
00:26:31in this case, ask the Croatian Institute for Public Health
00:26:34what to do. The fund is in charge of carrying out the remediation, and we,
00:26:38of course, asked the relevant institutions to provide us with data that are important to us for the remediation
00:26:42procedures, such as analyzes from
00:26:46the Andrija Štampar Institute or data we received from
00:26:50Dorch as part of their investigation,
00:26:53mhm, well, then we will refer to the civic initiative
00:26:56Gospić is our home. They claim that already in
00:26:592023. they proposed temporary protection
00:27:03of the location to prevent, as you yourself mentioned,
00:27:06further penetration into the soil. Today's findings show that the
00:27:09contamination has spread in the meantime,
00:27:13in just a few months, if I'm not mistaken, from the first analysis
00:27:17this year, there was only a few months difference. Is there any
00:27:21mistake regarding the timely
00:27:23reaction? Should you have reacted more decisively
00:27:27a few months ago? There is a mistake
00:27:30on the part of the association Gospo... is ours, because they proposed
00:27:34covering the waste next to the silo, that is, this plastic
00:27:38ground hazardous waste, which is almost
00:27:40technically impossible, so, but I would
00:27:44say that it is perhaps not technologically justified either. We proposed
00:27:47covering the buried waste, temporarily buried waste, to prevent
00:27:51the seepage of rainwater and to thus prevent
00:27:55the influx of contamination into groundwater. What
00:27:58I can say is that of course the fund is not in a position to...
00:28:02repeat results, especially regarding the impact on the environment, the impact on
00:28:06human health, but this report from
00:28:09Orha, which is now complete with this
00:28:13addition from July, clearly indicates that
00:28:16it is a local contamination, that is, contamination that
00:28:20has not crossed, has not crossed
00:28:24the boundaries of the location. Citizens are rightly concerned,
00:28:27actually we are all concerned, because over time,
00:28:31the risk of spread can increase, and that's why we in
00:28:34the fund proposed that temporary solution which has now
00:28:37obviously been discarded because we are going,
00:28:40somewhere in the ninth or tenth month, into public procurement directly
00:28:44for the removal of this waste from the location. mhm, well, you just said
00:28:47very similar words that we heard today from
00:28:50the minister on the program. Citizens are rightly concerned because
00:28:54it is a serious criminal offense against the environment with long-term
00:28:57consequences. These are her literal
00:29:00words, so who will be responsible for a possible
00:29:04disaster in this case?
00:29:07Well, I don't want to prejudge the course of the criminal
00:29:11proceedings. There is clear evidence that there has been an
00:29:15impact on the environment, environmental contamination, so it can be
00:29:18qualified as a crime against the environment, and then especially
00:29:22that crime which then manifests itself,
00:29:25can potentially manifest itself in people's health. I hope
00:29:29that all institutions will do their job and that
00:29:33those who should be punished will be punished
00:29:36with an appropriate sentence so that everyone
00:29:39will at least consider whether it makes sense and whether it is all
00:29:43appropriate. Of course, the safety
00:29:46of citizens is always number one. Can the citizens of Gospić
00:29:50be guaranteed that the pollution will stop before it
00:29:53endangers drinking water sources, or can no one really
00:29:57responsibly claim that at this moment?
00:30:00Well, at this moment it's very difficult to say because these are complex hydrogeological
00:30:04relations at the location itself. A favorable fact is that beneath this
00:30:08landfill there is a geological barrier in the form of clay that
00:30:12significantly slows down the inflow of surface water into
00:30:15the underground, and because of this, the current situation is such that
00:30:19we only have local contamination. What
00:30:22can also be seen, but cannot be claimed with certainty, is that this
00:30:26aquifer is not contaminated in the sense that there would be
00:30:29contamination of drinking water for human consumption
00:30:33in the area of the city of Gospić, or generally the Lika-Senj County.
00:30:36mhm, so currently, we don't know how much this three-month
00:30:40period will affect
00:30:42the situation in Gospić, but of course also around
00:30:45Gospić. It is very important to know that this is about
00:30:48one analysis, that is, an analysis that showed, if we are talking about PFOA compounds,
00:30:52specifically and heavy metals, which showed
00:30:56an increase, that is, an exceedance of the maximum permissible concentration.
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