Strip Mining Pollutes Dalnegorsk, Maritime Kray

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((KRUTOV)) YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE FIGHTING WINDMILLS. WHOM ARE YOU FIGHTING?

((SPITSYN)) I HOPE THAT TODAY, AFTER THE 19TH ((OF,AUGUST)), THE SITUATION WILL CHANGE SOMEHOW. BUT BEFORE THAT...WELL, AT THE TIME WHEN MY CANDIDACY FOR A DEPUTY WAS ADVANCED BY THE FACTORY, I THOUGHT THAT THE BAD GUYS WERE ALEKHIN, GENERAL DIRECTOR OF THE ASSOCIATION, OR SIDOROV, OR PETROV. BUT WHEN I SAW ALL OF THIS WITH MY OWN EYES, WHEN I SAW ALL THESE DOCUMENTS, THE REQUIREMENTS THAT WERE MADE, I REALIZED THAT NEITHER ALEKHIN, SIDOROV, OR PETROV WERE TO BLAME; THE SYSTEM WAS TO BLAME. WHAT IT DEMANDS IS BAD, SO IT IS NOT FEASIBLE TO DO GOOD EITHER ECONOMICALLY OR ADMINISTRATIVELY; IF YOU DO NOT DO THE BAD THING YOU WILL SIMPLY BE KICKED OUT, THE SYSTEM WILL REJECT YOU. ((VIDEO SHOWS RESIDENTS OF DALNEGORSK))

((KRUTOV)) IT IS DIFFICULT TO SAY WHEN AND HOW THE SYSTEM WILL CHANGE, AND NO CHANGES ARE MEANWHILE VISIBLE. NO ONE WANTS TO TAKE THE RESPONSIBILITY, GIVE UP THE STRIP MINING METHOD AND CONVERT TO UNDERGROUND MINING. MAYBE THIS IS THE REASON THAT THE RESIDENTS OF DALNEGORSK ARE WAITING FOR VISITORS FROM OUTER SPACE, HOPING THAT THEY CAN HELP SOLVE THE TERRESTRIAL PROBLEMS. ((END RECORDING))

((ANNOUNCER)) AND HERE ARE A FEW NUMBERS -- UNTIL RECENTLY, NINE BILLION ROUBLES WERE INVESTED IN ECOLOGY, WHILE DAMAGE FROM THE BARBARIC TREATMENT OF NATURE AMOUNT TO 43 BILLION ROUBLES.

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