2024-05-18 06:19:08
The Regional Governor of South Aegean Giorgos Chatzimarkos made the next put up on social media:
We noticed that too.
A bunch of fellow residents calls us to withstand towards {the electrical} interconnection of the Dodecanese with the mainland. These fellow residents of ours name themselves “delicate”, “energetic residents”, “pals of the setting” and different such emotive issues. Thrilling titles however false epigraphs. As a result of, what they’re truly resisting is the weaning off of fossil fuels and particularly gasoline oil which can also be the principle gasoline for the engines of the items that electrify our islands.
With out the interconnection, households and companies of our islands are excluded from using Renewable Vitality Sources. With out interconnection, our islands are condemned to everlasting dependence on gasoline oil.
“Associates of Mazout” are literally our supposedly delicate fellow residents who’re calling for resistance. Deniers of progress and evolution. Underminers of environmental upgrading. And do not be fooled, they’re the identical ones who oppose each, actually each, infrastructure mission. They’ve an opinion on how “disastrous” all infrastructure tasks are, from water and sewerage tasks, to street tasks, landfills and ports. They usually additionally “beat” all of them, with numerous unbelievable complaints and appeals that trigger delays that value financially, socially, environmentally. Years after their appeals and after they’ve misplaced them within the courtrooms, a whole lot of examples in our islands, the tasks now have outdated research and a number of prices paid solely by the manufacturing society. They’ve, along with their different traits, an experience in conspiracies. They know what’s behind each door or curtain and inside each drawer. They know all the pieces.
The mission they’ve now determined to undermine, that of {the electrical} interconnection, can also be proof of their true motives. A 2 billion euro mission, the most important mission within the historical past of our islands, is an absolute necessity for the environmental, and never solely, way forward for our islands. They do not love the setting, they simply instrumentalize it.
Crucial factor is that this habits is anti-social. Why, society is being crushed.
No, our pricey “Associates of Mazut” we is not going to do you a favor. We is not going to provide the pleasure of once more hurting the society that’s motivated by progress and social cohesion. With the criterion and purpose of actual look after the setting and never private complexes.
We’ve paid dearly for nihilism and we is not going to bow all the way down to ideologies.
The environmental actions and environmental tasks that are actually being applied on our islands don’t have any precedent of their historical past. The institutional interventions that are actually being undertaken in our islands, from the laws for the safety of the seashores and the preparation of Particular City Planning Plans to the research of the Bearing Capability, are additionally unprecedented within the historical past of our islands. That is what actually bothers the “Associates of Gasoline Oil”.
So the true resistance, towards every kind of controversial and even politically and socially suspicious motives, have to be executed by all of us.
It’s our debt.