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Kuzbass: Residents of Kiselevsk ask for asylum from the Prime Minister of Canada
A dozen residents of Kiselevsk recorded an open appeal to the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau and UN Secretary General Antonio Gaterrish with a request to provide refugee status in the North American country and placed it on YouTube. A letter with similar content was also sent to the embassy.
The video was attended by 12 adults and four children.
"We are forced to live in environmental disaster, next to the cuts on which explosions are constantly produced ... Owners of coal enterprises do not compensate for the damage caused to residents in the process of open coal production. Many of our officials, who must monitor the environmental safety, stand to the side of the coal miners, protect their interests, and not the interests of the children living at the foot of dumps," residents say in the residents of the residents. handling.
They also said that due to the active production of coal among the local population, the number of cancer patients increased. Children stopped walking on the street because of dirty air. In winter, black snow fell in the region. The last straw was underground fires, one of which happened on June 4. Due to the strong smoke, many families had to leave their homes.
“We are tired of waiting for changes. They are, then only for the worse. Yes, it’s dangerous to wait further: every day the ecology in our city and the region becomes worse, and we, people, citizens of this country, notice less and less, and people die from diseases. And, most importantly: we do not betray our country. We just want to survive and have guarantees that we, as people, are more useful than useful than useful ones than useful ones than useful ones than useful Fossils in the bowels of the Earth.
According to the initiator of the appeal of Vitaliy Shestakov, almost all the houses in the area of Malinnaya and Pakotnikova Kiselevsk (and this is about a hundred families) are ready to move anywhere today.
“We chose Canada because there is a climate that is similar to our region. So that they didn’t say that we just wanted to move to warm countries. We don’t care where there was no cut from the house 100 meters from the house,” Siberia. Reali shared Sixtakov.
If Canada does not provide the residents of Kiselevsk asylum, then they plan to contact the embassies of other countries, while someone does not agree to help them and shelter. Local officials have not reacted to this situation yet.
- In early June, the Governor of the Kemerovo region Sergey Tsivilev transferred another 21 land plot of agricultural purposes with a total area of about 467 hectares to coal enterprises . In May, 113 hectares were transferred to the coal.
- The entire Kuzbass economy is kept exclusively on coal. In the Kemerovo region, 60% of Russian coal are mined, 42 mines, 51 cuts, and 56 enrichment factories operate. 76% of coal is exported - to 65 countries. Last year, 255.3 million tons of coal were obtained in the region. In this - they plan to increase coal mining by 5%, or by 12.8 million tons of coal, two more coal cuts and four enrichment factories will open.
- Residents have more and more health problems. The life expectancy of a resident of the Kemerovo region is 3-4 years less than on average in Russia. According to the level of disease, tuberculosis, oncology, cerebral palsy, asthma and other Kuzbass diseases in leaders in the country. More than 200 thousand people live near coal cuts in the region.