Ziceam ca trece ziua prea linistit? ha, iata ce aflu in NY Times: George Epurescu , Diana Iftodi, Constantin Paslaru, Zîna Domintean, Liliana Mircea Sava, Vama Verde , Ghimus Costina Alina, Ana Benedict , Irina Vergu, Apostol Doru, Ioan Lazurca, Orlando Balaș, Alexandra Teodor, Rodica Cruceanu, Ani Berlin, Daria Pîrvu, Alexandru Popescu, Matei Alexandru , Gabriela Naneș, Sorin Fitu Franco Dan Frunzetti si ceilalti... PUNGESTI, Romania — Vlasa Mircia, the mayor of this destitute village in eastern Romania, thought he had struck it rich when the American energy giant Chevron showed up here last year and leased a plot of land he owned for exploratory shale gas drilling. But the encounter between big business and rural Romania quickly turned into a nightmare. The village became a magnet for activists from across the country opposed to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. Violent clashes broke out between the police and protesters. The mayor, one of the few locals who sided openly with Chevron, was run out of town, reviled as a corrupt sellout in what activists presented as a David versus Goliath struggle between impoverished farmers and corporate America. “I was really shocked,” recalled the mayor, who is now back at his office on Pungesti’s main, in fact only, street. “We never had protesters here and suddenly they were everywhere.”
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