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Tha Calum MacIlleathain anns A’ Ghearmailt, far a bheil dachannan gan leagail agus mèinnichean mòra guail gan leudachadh. Tha lànn bhailtean air an leagail agus an togail as-ùr. ‘Se gual dònn, liognaid a’ thathar a’ cladhach a-mach as an talamh ann an Lusatia ann taobh an Ear na duthcha – connadh a tha ag adhbharrachadh tuilleadh thruailleadh dhan àrainneachd na connadh-fosail sam bith eile. Tha feum air a’ Ghearmailt air a chumachd a’ theid a chruthachadh le liognaid ri lìnn co-dhùnadh an riaghaltais faighinn cuidhteas de stèiseanan cumachd nùclasach na duthcha. Ach tha cuid de mhuinntir na sgìre a tha a’ togail fianais mu na planaichean, agus ag iomairt airson an dachannan a shabhaladh.

Calum Maclean reports from Germany, where homes are being demolished to accommodate for expansion of large open-cast coal pits. Whole towns have been cleared and rebuilt elsewhere in the west of the country. Underneath the towns lies tonnes of lignite – a highly polluting fossil fuel. Germany requires lignite to meet it’s energy needs due to the Government’s decision to decommission all of it’s nuclear power plants. Some residents in Lusatia are fighting back against the plans which will see their homes disappear. 

Ur dachaigh no ur n’ obair? Dè thaghadh sibh? ‘S e an roghainn sin a tha mu choinneamh luchd-obrach bho Bhuidheann Stiùiridh an Iasgaich ann an Innis Tìle. Tha na h-obraichean aca gus a bhi air an gluasad bho bhaile Hafnarfjörður faisg air a’ phrìomh bhaile Reykjavik, gu Akureyri ann a ceann a Tuath na dùthcha. Tha an riaghaltas airson ‘s gun gluais an luchd-obrach cuideachd. An trioblaid? Tha gach mac màthar dhiubh gu tur an aghaidh carrachadh. An t-seachdain-sa tha Darren Linc a’ rannsachadh an t-argamaid eadar toil an luchd-obraich, is miann an riaghaltais gus obraichean a sgapadh nas fharsainge air feadh na dùthcha.

Your home or your job? Which one would you choose? That’s the choice confronting staff at Iceland’s Fisheries Directorate. Their jobs are being relocated from the town of Hafnarfjörður near the capital Reykjavik, to Akureyri in the north. The government wants the workers to move too. The problem? Not one of them wants to take up the offer. This week on ·¡Ã²°ù±è²¹, Darren Laing investigates the dilemma of workers’ happiness versus the government’s desire to spread public jobs more widely across the country.