How We Live
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Energy is something that puts
everything into motion.
Everything is for movement.
GEORGIA
To survive we had to work
around a wood fire.
There was no energy,
there was no electricity.
No radio, no television.
It was kind of a frozen period.
We were just stuck in one place,
neither moving forwards nor backwards.
Now there are different needs.
Although you have
gas and electricity
it’s very expensive
and you are trying to find alternative ways
to reduce the cost of living.
SERBIA
30 years ago
the surface mines encroached
on the edge of the village
and the relocation of people began.
Life has changed.
WALES
My first thoughts when we found out
that we were on a pilon route
a 50 metre high pilon route,
was just horror.
It's not about saving the planet.
It's not about providing green energy,
renewable energy, energy security.
It's money.
The subsidy in the UK for
onshore wind is huge.
And people are on a gold rush.
BELGIUM
GEORGIA
The point is impact.
What do we get from it?
Neither free electricity nor any kind of
discounts for the community.
Can you imagine the Dariali gorge
without the river Tergi?
Facing the challenges that we face today
in the European Union
depends a great degree by decisions that are
taken at the level of energy policy
reinforcing energy supply
reinforcing competitiveness
and promoting sustainable growth.
GEORGIA
SERBIA
We are all
disappointed somehow.
We have a kind of sadness
when we look out there.
There used to be homes, neighbours.
We had friendships, we visited one another;
we celebrated, we talked.
We no longer have any of those things.
We live only for ourselves.
And it is sad - to look out and to live here.
I have invested 50 years of my life here.
And I don’t have anything to see
other than dug up ground.
A gloominess.
Everything is...
... dead.
ENGLAND
Some of the biggest players
in the tar sands are actually British companies.
So we definitely have
a role to play in this battle.
Europe is a key new market that
Canada wants to export to.
That's where the oil from the Keystone
Exel Pipeline will go if the pipeline is built.
It will come to Europe.
And there's a piece of legislation going through the EU
at the moment called the fuel quality directive
that will label Tar Sands as much more
poluting than conventional oil.
WALES
This is an area of incredible beauty
which my family has come from and
I feel a personal responsibility to fight for.
They're going to
take away our heritage.
They're going to take away
the beauty of Wales all together.
They're going to destroy our lives.
And the will to live.
GEORGIA
Hello viewers, you are
watching a TV show for kids.
Eco Vision is a programme with
educational and environmental topics.
Today our guests are from
Public School No. 75.
Today's show is about electricity.
SERBIA
I am a third generation miner.
My grandfather worked in the
underground mines.
My father was a miner,
and I now work in Kolubara.
Realistically speaking
I think Serbia needs Kolubara
It is our energy, our product,
people make a living from it.
What do you mean
how much energy do I need?
How much energy I use personally,
I don't know.
What I use as a human being?
I never thought about that.
How We Live
Commuinties in Mid-Wales are preparing for
a year long public inquiry into
the applications of 5 wind farms.
If rejected, the National Grid's
proposed pylon corridor is unlikely to proceed.
The Kolubara mine is the largest
open cast mine in Europe
and provides half of Serbia's electricity.
It is expected to be operational until 2060.
The government is being sued for incorrectly representing
the environmental impact of
the Dariali Hydro Plant.
There are 26 Hydros in the country
and more than 40 more are proposed.
Investors are obliged to sell energy back to
Georgia only during winter months.