00:00 Introduction. Old man Budaj is not the most influential man in the ministry. The ministry was completely taken over by State Secretary Juraj Smatana. Smatana is a history teacher at a grammar school by profession. He was involved in activism, drawing attention to hoaxes. He is an ecological extremist – he fought against the construction of a bypass / highway because he considered it environmentally unfriendly. He was part of the blockade against the processing of the calamity in the Tichá and Kôprová valleys. About how Budaj became minister and Smatana secretary. Smatana is too strong even for moderate ecological extremists and they do not understand him – e.g. mowing meadows.
10:40 In the fifth degree of protection, there is also a ban on planting trees after a calamity. Smatana and Michal Wiezik are also against planting trees in forests, not just the 5th degree of protection. A non-intervention spruce forest has a weak water retention function. The Ministry of Environment should correctly pay compensation to the flooded municipalities because it is responsible for it. The amendment to the decree on the wolf against the background of a hateful disinformation campaign against shepherds on social networks. The Ministry perceives shepherds as enemies who need to be punished. The requirements for reimbursement of damage to a sheep killed by a wolf are unrealistic and cannot be met. The compensation for one sheep is only a ridiculous 48 EUR. Mr. Smatana totally demeans the institution of the ministry. He should have self-reflection and resign. But he lacks self-reflection.
23:58 Smatana’s appearance on TA3 television after a person was killed by a bear was total madness. I would have been completely ashamed to embarrass and compromise myself like that. Smatana should be deprived of his legal capacity. As I know the opinions of psychiatrists, they would be in favor. How does the deprivation of legal capacity proceed? The ministry has not done one positive thing, everything is destructive activity and leaves behind a mess. It’s sad that Mr. Smatana doesn’t realize the guilt of having caused enormous damage. He perceives all experts as enemies. The Podhájska spa affair vs. psychopaths from the ministry.
29:32 The media should finally wake up and call what is happening at the Ministry by its real name. “Political correctness” of the media towards the Ministry of Environment. National Park Reform. Mr. Smatana sees Mičovský as the biggest enemy – right after the resignation and powerlessness at the Ministry of Agriculture, they pushed through a controversial legislative proposal. The Ministry of Environment promises what it cannot financially cover. EU funds are intended exclusively for one-off short projects. They will certainly not get a huge item in the budget from the Ministry of Finance. If they are so extremely managerially incapable at the Ministry that they could not get EU funds to remove environmental burdens, then they certainly cannot get EU funds for stable financing of national parks. The fact that Jaroslav Slašťan, under pressure from Smatana, is spreading disinformation, demeans the institution of state nature protection. Everything the Ministry of Environment gets involved in, they only leave behind a mess. The President was also very seriously outraged by Smatana’s madness. Even the extreme conservationist Erik Baláž began to be outraged by Smatana’s madness, which is saying something.
38:00 The Ministry’s discussion with non-state owners about the reform of national parks, they got a proper argument. It is questionable whether this event will at least force Mr. Smatana to reflect on himself, whether this will at least wake him up. I am curious whether Mr. Smatana will at least somewhat search his conscience because of the enormous damage he has done, whether he will finally start listening to the professional public, whom he perceives as his biggest enemies. Mr. Smatana has no self-reflection – if I had received such an argument from the professional public, I would have sunk into the ground out of shame and resigned from the ministry. https://www.mojevideo.sk/video/355b9/spickovy_lesnicky_expert_nalozil_tajomnikom_ministerstva_zp.html
Money stolen for counting wolves and bears.
Second Secretary Michal Kiča arranged a corrupt contract for his friends for the ground squirrel for 5.5 million euros. Smatana is Kiča’s boss. Kiča is easily blackmailable because Smatana can testify against Kiča’s corruption if Kiča hinders him in his madness.
45:50 I feel very sorry for all the decent employees of the state nature protection when this institution is totally parodied and de-honored by Mr. Smatana