# OUR SEAS ARE IN DANGER
A marine area of almost 60.000 sq.km. that covers almost the total surface of the Ionian Sea and extends to the west and the southwest parts of Crete, as well as 17.000 sq.km. of land in Epirus and northwest Peloponnese, have been granted to oil companies for oil and gas exploration and exploitation. Moreover a tendering process is in progress for more marine areas with total expansion of 32.000 sq.km.
The entire Ionian sea and the Libyan sea are in danger to be converted in a huge offshore oil platform.
The dangers that underlie the oil and gas drilling are huge. We are facing epic damage in tourism and other areas of the economy (fishing, stockbreeding, agriculture), damage to many rich ecosystems, pollution of the groundwater, and of course all the impacts that hydrocarbons exploitation have on public health.
Whatever the benefit they promise to us, it will be never enough to put it before the Ionian and Libyan sea neither the magical mountains of Pindos, before water and land, before life itself!
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The Open Assembly of Kefalonia & Ithaca against oil drilling in the Ionian Sea invites you to a concert against...
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Continue readingSymbolic action to honour the 21st May celebration
On Tuesday the 21st May, we 'unite' the past with the future. Our amazing sea, the Ionian, unites the...
Continue readingClimate Strike Thessaloniki
Friday May 24, 2019, Aristotelous Square Thessaloniki On March 15, we were more than 1.7 million demonstrators in the...
Continue readingInternational scientific community says NO to oil drilling in Greece
100 scientists and scientific bodies and organizations from Greece and all over the world, jointly signed a call to the Greek...
Continue readingAssesment of the Demonstration in Ioannina
Assesment of the 11th of May Demonstration in Ioannina against hydrocarbon extraction The second large demonstration against hydrocarbon extraction...
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