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A Danish member of the European Parliament (MEP) Margarete Auken visited Bulgaria earlier this month and, according to a report in the Sofia Echo, “ left the country with the impression that the problems with the Bulgarian nature were very serious and linked closely to organised crime, which destroys the nature and transforms it into money.”
Auken is reported to have complained to European Union environment commissioner Stavros Dimas that Bulgaria is not respecting the EC Environmental Law and requested that sanctions be taken against the country, according to green campaigners in Bulgaria.
The Sofia Echo reported that after Auken saw the area of Rila Mountain, where the company Rila Sport wants to build the Panichishte-Ezerata-Kaboul ski resort, which environmentalist fear would destroy the unique Seven Rila Lakes area, she said: “Maybe the part of your tourism will remain, in which the visitors go to the pubs and drink, but this is not very good for the country.”
“I saw that there are plans (for ski resorts) not only in Rila buffer zone but also inside the natural park. I don’t know what types of ski resorts it is all about, because with the climate changes, which are currently evident, this is not the cleverest investment I have seen. You destroy the nature and at the same time you will not have development of the ski resorts,” Auken said.
What is happening here cannot even be called capitalism. It is a very bad capitalism when you start losing valuable things,”
she said.
However Auken’s visit to parts of Rila needed to be changed as about 4000 residents of the surrounding villages gathered to protest against her visit and to support the ski resort project “Panichishte-Ezerata-Kaboul.” The pro-development protestors carried posters saying, “There is no future for the region without the project”.
The protest against Aken’s visit was organized by local mayors of the villages where the development will take place. Sapareva Banya mayor Sasho Ivanov said that environmentalist’s claims that hotels would be built around the Seven Rila Lakes, that ski slopes would be built on the territory of the Skakavitsa reservation and in Rila National Park around the Seven Rila Lakes and that there would be a road between Pionerska hut and the Seven Rila Lakes were all lies.
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something needs to be done to protect the UNESCO sites all over Bulgaria.
Captalism:
an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
Bulgarian Capitalism of the Ski Resorts is a mafia run operation designed to both A: Make lots of money whilst B: Laundering mafia money from Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey and Russia. Land is gained by extortion and threats, stolen and purchased through the back door via corrupt local officials headed by the mayor. It is all sanctioned and cleared by members of parliament who have a vested interet in the whole affair as they are ALL large land owners or developers themselves often using two names in the process one for the government job and the other for their money laundering schemes. Meanwhile this is all fuelled by unsuspecting EU buyers who are helping in the money laundering scheme. On top of this, the whole of Bulgaria beautiful and varied landscape which is unique in Europe slowly gets raped and pillaged until one day there will be nothing left.
It’s worse than that. A conglomerate of mafias – mainly Russian and Bulgarian but also Turk & Arab dominate 100% of the political class. Anyone not obeing is shot dead – journalists, top bankers, businessmen, ordinary people.
This country is a giant money loundry operation – consider this when talking of eco. Its about unimaginable amounts of money – why wonder that they forced the villagers to go out and protest. Poor people, left with no chance bit emigrate.