The international environmental organizations Greenpeace and the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) have filed a lawsuit with the Highest Court of Greece demanding the freezing of a large offshore storage and natural gas processing terminal project in the area of the Mediterranean port of Alexandroupolis.
The European Union-funded enterprise with a capacity of 5.5 billion cubic meters of regasification per year is planned to be put into operation in early 2024. To do this, a vessel with a length of almost 300 meters has already arrived at the Greek port, which was repaired in Singapore for 10 months.
In the lawsuit, environmentalists refer to legislation prohibiting the placement of such emergency facilities in protected areas of the Mediterranean. Here, off the coast of Greece, there are red book turtles, whales and dolphins, as well as colonies of seabirds.
The demands of international organizations were supported by Greek environmentalists: the Association for the Rescue of Turtles in the Mediterranean Sea, the Greek Society of Ornithologists and the Greek Society for the Protection of Nature.
However, given the upcoming New Year holidays, coupled with multimillion-dollar investments in the gas project, the initiative of environmentalists looks somewhat overdue.
The press service of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve announced that the institution's specialists have presented their developments in the field of monitoring natural complexes and creating databases about them using the latest technologies to the scientific community
The Roscongress Foundation press service announced that the All-Russian Tourism Forum "Discover the Far East" will be held in Khabarovsk from September 18 to 22
This year, the vessel will continue to operate along the Black Sea coast until the end of September or mid-October 2024.In addition to Novorossiysk, it will also call at Gelendzhik
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