Geamana Village - The Poisoned Lake in Romania

AIRVŪZ STAFF NOTE : While the Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was overthrown in 1989, the country still bears the scars from the abysmal environmental record of the Communist Party during the four decades when it ruled the country. One of them is the village of Geamana in Transylvania. Seen in this drone video by fabriziob, the village was flooded then irreparably contaminated as part of a copper mining project initiated in the 1978. While most of the inhabitants fled, a few remained and made their homes around the edges of the now-toxic lake.

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Geamana is an abandoned village in Romania. It was a very nice and happy village up until 1978, when the Communist regime forced residents to leave their homes and make way for the toxic waste from a nearby mining pit. Everything started in 1977 when dictator Nicolae Ceausescu decided to exploit a huge underground copper deposit. In only one year, the work began and everybody from Geamana was evacuated. Meanwhile, like a bloody bride, this beautiful landscape serves as a warning. Underground resources can come at a great cost — a cost that we will also have to account for. Drone filming: George Bufan https://www.airvuz.com/user/george-bufan/videos Video editing and music: Fabrizio Benatti