Protest in Gospić over Illegal Waste Dumping: "If We Save Lika, We Save Croatia"
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A NUMBER OF COMPANIES from Croatia, Slovenia, Italy and Slovakia handed over their waste to the company Tipos Resurs, associated with the Šincek family.
A long-running waste scandal is causing such a stir in Croatia that the survival of the cabinet is at stake. Two opposition parties want to force a vote of confidence to bring down Prime Minister Plenkovic's cabinet over the handling of the illegal waste dumpings. At the center of the controversy is the town of Gospic, in central Croatia, where large quantities of shredded waste have disappeared underground at an industrial site over the past fe…
In Gospić, Croatia, several hundred people protested against the illegal dumping of hazardous waste in Lika. They carried banners reading "They betrayed Lika and turned it into black", "They poisoned the water, the soil and the air" and "If we save Lika, we save Croatia".
The Deputy of the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund also commented on the hazardous waste affair.
Anušić: Arson and Waste Dumping Border on Terrorism - Penalties Should Be Made as Severe as Possible
Anušić expects the Parliamentary Committee for Environmental and Nature Protection, which is meeting in Gospić today on the topic of hazardous waste, to begin remediation of the area as soon as possible.
Around 37,000 tons of waste have been illegally dumped on the former PPK Velebit industrial complex in Gospić and on surrounding plots in the immediate vicinity. According to official findings by experts and USKOK, the site contains mixed technogenic waste containing both hazardous and non-hazardous components. Smaller...
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