Back to homepage / Live news The black hell of Albania's ageing oil fields. ZHARREZ (Albania) (AFP) – The people of Zharrez in central Albania live amid a stinking apocalyptic landscape of ...

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The people of Zharrez in central Albania live amid a stinking apocalyptic landscape of leaking oil wells and rusting storage tanks, the soil blackened from spills of crude that seep into their water.