In Romania, the biggest gold mine in Europe is being prepared to be opened. A Canadian company is planning to build a tailing pond for storing the cyanide waste water used for extraction of gold, a hundred times bigger than the one which caused the catastrophe of river Tisza in 2000. The inhabitants of four villages, thousands of people would have to leave their homes, churches, cemeteries, and land. The mountains surrounding the villages would ultimately disappear within 15 years due to 20 tonnes of dynamite used per day.