The film focuses on the lives of the villagers of Barskon, a remote settlement in the west of Kyrgyzstan that, since 1997, has also been home to a controversial gold mine. In 1998, nearly two tons of cyanide spilled from the gold mine operations, poisoning the nearby river and leaving several people dead and hundreds seeking medical treatment.

In 2005 the EBRD provided four and half million euros to the Dundee Precious Metals company for environmental improvements at its Deno Gold Mine in Kapan, Armenia. But locals and environmentalists are not happy.

European Banks for Reconstruction and Development promo for the 2009 annual meetings in London.

Despite Poland’s traditional food being amongst the best quality in Europe, the agenda of the global banks and big agribusiness, aided and abetted by EU bureaucrats, is to consolidate Poland’s three million farmers into mechanized factory farms.

Local health worker Dafina Karagioza speaks about the problems that have plagued her village since operations began upstream at the gold and copper mine in the Central Balkan mountains of Bulgaria.