The Smelter of Veles

On the 7th and 8th of July the biketour visited the town of Veles. Veles is well know for it is high level of pollution. The pollution is mainly due to a very old iron smelter build in the early seventies by a German company. The smelter produced high polluted smoke which is blown by the wind in the direction of the town of Veles. What impacts the health of Veles‘ people even wore is a big hill of heavy metal dust laying a round next to the old factor. The factory is close now for 5 years, but the…

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Biketour update for 2009-07-08

Video Veles Kaputt: http://bit.ly/1jCPx Tomorrow we’ll cycle by the smelter. # Video Veles Kaputt: http://bit.ly/ZCmb7 Tomorrow we cycle by the smelter. # Oops… the translation for the website works again – thanks Matthew! – and we can send sms again! # Mooi, vertaling van de website werkt weer (thanks Matthew!) en we kunnen weer sms’en! # Just had talk and film screening of „Veles Kaputt“ with Greenpower in Veles. Were staying at Veles lake, 10 km North of Veles. # twitter doesn’t seem to work from our macedonian phone, so swiching back to bosnian #

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