Don’t be suspicious, don’t be suspicious
In case you are wondring why I never posted any updates on the Oder/Odra disaster it’s because we have no conclusive results.
There was to be joint German Polish investigation but Poland doesn’t want to investigate together. Any questions on their findings is basically “trust me bro” territory.
We still don’t now what killed an entire ecosystem.
In the German-Polish dispute over the environmental disaster that led to the death of millions of fish in the Oder River, the fronts are hardening. The Polish government blocked the work of the bi-national expert commission that was supposed to investigate the cause of the catastrophe.
The Polish side neither shared comprehensive data nor showed any cooperation, criticises Lilian Busse, head of the investigation commission. “In the beginning, we actually exchanged information quite well in the German-Polish group. As things progressed, however, the Polish colleagues became more and more reticent, in some cases almost secretive,” says Busse.
From time to time some PiS politicians still claim that Germany poisened the Oder though. Even though Germany is still downstream and hasn’t magically moved upstream. Also Germany bad for bringing up the topic of the dead fish simply to make Poland look bad.
I am so tired of PiS and everyone who votes for them.
@bookshelfdreams
Indeed. Even in Poland people tried to get information for over one week with no answer. Dead fish on the river banks and everyone in official positions pretended like nothing happened.
@rogram
Don‘t know what this has to do with the topic but I‘ll tell you before this disaster there were clams living in the Oder. If you see the Odra in Czechia and then after it has passed Poland, it is obvious that pollution on a grand scale is taking place, this has indeed been known for a long time. But what happened this time is not a scandal it is an ecocide.
you confuse a little concept. The water may be of a poor chemical state and will contain fish, but those that do not need super clean water. But if the water level in this polluted river drops, it is natural that the living conditions of these fish deteriorate drastically. And it really happened in the Oder. These pollutants are the result of the high anthropomorphization of the river, but the final lethal ingredient was the water level and temperature (which was of natural origin). That is why they will not punish anyone for it. Because the anthropomorphization of the river happened a few decades ago, in a different economic system. And this is not a question of some single illegal waste discharge, but a whole history of bottom sediment connected by barrages that make up artificial LAKES on the river. This is what the hydrolologists talk about. aodre in this case should be treated as a network of interconnected lakes, not a river. We know what, for example, happened in the German lakes at that time. Due to the anthropmorphization of the Oder, the river does not clean up to the same degree as, for example, the Vistula. And I will say more: even if we dismantled the dams, closed mines and industrial plants … it would probably also have an effect for the next dozen or so years, because restoring the river is not a magic wand that will make the river repair itself right away.
