08/30/2022, 17:01

Since our objections, along with the signatures collected by Sunday, 28 August, were sent to the Environment Ministry's consultation, we have removed the reference to the consultation.
We have also changed "...will be sent..." to "...has been sent...".
And we changed the petition target from 2000 to 3000 signatures!
If you haven't signed yet, do it now and share the petition with your friends!


New petition description:

The Department of Urban Planning of the Ministry of the Environment issued an invitation on 29 July 2022, inviting the interested public to express in writing and in a sufficiently documented manner their views on the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and its accompanying documents for the Special Development Plan (SDP) prepared by EKTER S.A. for the area of its property in the region of Kolymbithres of the community of Naoussa Paros.

The SDP foresees the construction of a tourist complex with 440 beds and a total built-up area of 12,046 sqm on a total area of 327.84 strema owned by the company in Kolymbithres, one of the few undeveloped areas of Paros. This is a typical tourism investment for the construction of a large luxury resort.

The SEA of the investment, prepared in accordance with the law, attempts to present the investment, with unconvincing arguments, as being of moderate and strategic nature and in full compliance with the sustainable development framework set by European, national, and regional policies.

A detailed reading of the SEA reveals the reality. Rhetorical calls for sustainability without any concrete measures to integrate and support the sustainability perspective as defined by the above-mentioned policies.

A group of volunteers has worked on the Strategic Environmental Assessment and put all their objections into a rebuttal document that willhas bebeen sent to the Ministry of Environment's consultation. Find it here: OBJECTIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF CONSULTATION ON THE SEA FOR EKTER'S SDP FOR THE REGION OF KOLYMBITHRES PAROS

Implementing this plan must be prevented at all costs, as it will only exacerbate considerably the serious problems Paros and other islands suffer due to overtourism.

By signing this petition you consent to us adding you, with your name and email, to the signatories of the rebuttal document that will be sent to the Ministry of Environment as part of the consultation.ATTENTION! The consultation closes on 28 August. Sign NOW if you agree!______________________

Read HERE our documented objections to the Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Special Urban Plan of EKTEP SA in Kolymbithres of Paros.