CRNKOVIĆ: THEY ARE TRYING TO COVER UP NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY PROBLEM ON TRGOVSKA GORA WITH MONEY

NOVI GRAD, JANUARY 28 /SRNA/ - Mario Crnković, President of the Green Team Association from Novi Grad, believes that the plan to use the revenue from the fee for radioactive waste management in 2026 in the municipality of Dvor is an attempt to cover up the core of the problem of the Trgovska Gora case with money.

Crnković said that the financial resources are practically being used as a tool to normalize an extremely risky idea that threatens life, safety, and the environment. He emphasized that there is no amount of money that can neutralize the risk to water resources, land, and people, nor any budget item that can guarantee safety for the coming decades and centuries. "Where radioactive waste is presented to a returning community as a development opportunity, there is no good outcome. Paving two roads, buying a fire truck, expanding the capacity of the local morgue, and similar measures are responsibilities of the local community and the state, not a privilege that comes with radioactive waste," Crnković stated. He emphasized that this plan, as well as all activities related to the Trgovska Gora case, are confined within the administrative boundaries of the municipality of Dvor and Croatia, while cross-border risks are deliberately ignored. "The consequences of placing radioactive and other hazardous waste on the border do not stop at administrative lines but also affect the population in BiH, which has not been consulted, protected, or included in any accountability measures," Crnković pointed out. He believes that the Trgovska Gora case is not a matter of local investments, as is currently being portrayed, but rather the consequence of poor decisions by the wrong people, who persistently hide behind the supposed need for Croatia to dispose of its radioactive and other hazardous waste somewhere. He said that no one disputes that Dvor needs investments, but that the future of the region cannot be traded for a local morgue. The Unified Administrative Department of the municipality of Dvor in Croatia is conducting consultations on the proposed plan for the use of revenue from the fee for radioactive waste management. The municipality of Dvor's website states that the total planned revenue is €1,680,000, of which €1,120,000 comes from regular funds under a Croatian government decree, and additional funds from this decree amount to €560,000. Croatia plans to store radioactive waste from the Krško Nuclear Power Plant, as well as existing institutional waste, at the Trgovska Gora site in the municipality of Dvor, right on the border with BiH.