Conditional Exploration on Shipule

Qamil doctor resident in the village of Shiptula neighbourhood, this area, announced with particular interest in expanding the mining activities of the Kosovo Energy Corporation, is one of the first residents of this neighbourhood.

Over 200 homes are said to have been built in this area for just six years, since it has not numbered more than 60 homes, according to residents living in the country six years ago.

All these houses will be subject to expropriation and shift, to give way to myths in search of coal reserves, which will take place in those areas.

Some of the residents there say that the houses were built in recent years and that many do not live.

When I arrived six years ago there were no more than 40 to 60 houses, and after three to four months the construction began... I'm very surprised”

I'm one of the first residents here, I have my own home, I go do my thing. Would you like me to lie to you and tell you that they all live [in the house]... not everyone here lives here”, says Qamil Doctor who lives in this neighborhood with his three children and his wife, Radio Free Europe.

The 128 square foot house, by the authorities in Kosovo, is pre-empted to compensate for about 39 thousand euros, for which Mr. Doctor says it is very low value.

He says he hasn't signed the expropriation agreement yet, but he will do it...

I, as a resident of this country, also forgave the state, just don't leave Kosovo's citizens in the dark, but these have to do meritous exfiling and hire us, hire us”, says the doctor.

Because of the mines that develop in these areas of Kosovo and in search of coal reserves, this area has been declared dangerous for habitation by the country's authorities, since even air is considered to be contaminated.

Qamil's wife, Shyhreta, says the country is not suitable to raise children and that she will leave if the authorities ensure a better life.

Then after a solution I never brought my kids to live here. Millions of KEKs, I wasn't here. I'd just like the man to hire”, she says.

Authorities in Kosovo have warned weeks ago that Kosovo will face an energy crisis because of spending coal reserves, which the reserves of this product are in the same areas where these houses are located.

Coal is Kosovo's most important energy resource, which supplies about 97% of total electricity production.

And Abide, a resident of this village, says that they are dissatisfied with the appreciation for compensation made to their lands and houses.

“210 euros have estimated the square length of the house. From 105 square feet of our home, they landed at 55 meters. If I go and buy a flat somewhere with this money, they calculate the square meter as much as it is and they don't take a mile, as KEK has done to us.

She says that along with her two children and husband live in this village since 2010 and that they will not sign the expropriation agreement unless they are offered the conditions they seek.

If the state needs electricity for the whole of Kosovo, normally we get out of here, but they have to pay for it. If we get out of here, we live without conditions. We seek land, from which they take land from us, and seek our house to build and employ us. Here they're taking millions of us out with nothing... we have kids and we need money”, she says.

We can't even make a garden, plant a tree, tell us we're pulling you out of”, she says.

The Kosovo Energy Corporation has so far reached an agreement on expropriation with some of the village's families in Shiptule.

The outgoing government of Kosovo has made the decision with which it approves review of the demand for expropriation.

Procedures for taking this land from the country's authorities have become known they will be completed in the first part of September of this year, but that all of this requires the approval of residents.