Since we last reported on the matter in July, the battle against the installation of 269 electricity pylons carrying a 150 kVA transmission line from Chania to Damasta in Heraklion, traversing some of the most environmentally sensitive areas of the local countryside, has continued to be waged sporadically. Following the creation of a fighting committee – the “Apokoronas Initiative” – at the end of June by the cultural associations of the municipality of Apokoronas, a number of protest meetings have taken place. They have also taken aim at a parallel proposal to install six giant wind farms in different areas of the nomos of Chania with which, despite official disclaimers, the cable plan seems closely linked.
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A movement against “green” investments
Local attempts to block the proposed installation of high-tension overground cables and heavy-duty wind generators in the Regional Unit of Chania, in view of the damaging effects it is feared they will have on the countryside, are gathering force. As reported in Haniotika Nea, meeting on Saturday 29th June at the stone theatre in Macheri, Apokoronas, the Municipality’s cultural associations decided to create a “fighting committee” to organise demonstrations and awareness-raising activities, informing citizens of the severe consequences of these developments to the environment and to public health.
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