Good morning! According to local officials, Pljevlja was the most polluted city in the world. Let’s listen to some of the genius ideas of politicians to solve the problem.
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Making fun of Pljevlja and its residents
The Montenegrin government is headed by a declaratively green party. That green party came to power through a coalition with Serbian nationalists in Montenegro and an alliance with the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC). In that green party, at its top, there is no one who lives a green ideology, who was an environmental activist before they connected with the European Greens and charted an ideological path for themselves. That’s why it looks funny and cartoonish when Abazovi and his entourage in suits ride bicycles. When in convoys of escorted cars and on speedboats, they don’t care about how much fuel they use and how much carbon dioxide they emit into the atmosphere. At the top of the party are construction magnates who significantly contributed to the devastation of the area through excessive construction.
That green party is almost non-existent in the most polluted Montenegrin city, and it entered the local elections in a coalition with SNP with the message “Fundamentally”, advertising not ideas on how to solve the problem of pollution, but bragging about signing a contract with SPC.
However, the most direct responsibility for what is happening in Pljevlja, from the current government, lies with DF and Democrats, whose officials from Pljevlja were the first to run to take management positions in energy companies, which are the biggest polluters and poisoners of the residents of Pljevlja. We would think that they took the positions in order to provide quality lives for their fellow citizens, and ultimately, their families, and solve the problem of excessive emissions. No. They took the positions in order to lure the voters into the fold with employment and bribery, because by buying people for minimum wages, they want to provide themselves with secure mandates.
If, instead of employment, they had diverted the funds required for the unnecessary workforce for collateral for loans that would enable a smaller emission, then they would not have had to come up with the ingenious idea of using EPCG buses to take citizens out to Zabljak, as if they were cattle being raised at summer pastures. And at the same time, those who were not successful in arriving and occupying a limited number of seats on the buses, should be sent home. Nikola Rovcanin, a Democrat at the head of the EPCG Board of Directors, wants to build a tunnel to Prijepolje, so that Pljevlja could be “ventilated”. DF’s Janjusevic, who is at the head of Pljevlja’s Rudnik Uglja coal mining company, donates air purifiers to kindergartens and schools. Miserable. You poison children and then offer them gas masks as consolation. Socially responsible, that’s for sure.
Local civil society organizations have their own proposals for long-term problem solving, and they have been talking about it for years. Subsidizing the transition to electric heating, helping the most vulnerable, are just some of the actions they advise the government. They call for more direct involvement of the Government of Montenegro.
The uncrowned leader of the parliamentary majority, Milojko Spajic, who comes from Pljevlja as well, proposes subsidizing thermal insulation facades. Many are talking about switching to electric heating, because one of the biggest problems is heating with wood and other solid fuels.
The air will be polluted in the future as well. Experts recommend caution to citizens and offer a set of recommendations related to people’s health. In the long term, this type of pollution carries numerous risks for the population and public health.
That’s it for today. We wish you a pleasant rest of the day.
Kind regards,
Ljubomir Filipovic, CdM analyst
