After Prime Minster Kyriakos Mitsotakis became the first to prohibit building on burned land– which has been allowed for decades, seeing developers profit – the recovery of tens of thousands of acres of forests in the northern end of the island of Evia will be done by local forest cooperatives and resin farmers.
Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas told SKAI T that the first phase of recovery will be to build defenses to protect burnt land from soil erosion and flooding in the fall will be assigned to local cooperatives by forestry services and not private contractors.
But some work will go to private companies, Skrekas explaining that a number of them wanted work to clear burnt trees and other debris that could pose a hazard. It wasn't said if they would be paid for the effort.
He said that any private companies involved in the recovery effort in any capacity will be hiring locally, while he also announced funding worth 25 million euros ($29.38 million) for northern Evia’s forest cooperatives.
ATHENS - Internationally acclaimed and widely translated Greek author Vassilis Vassilikos, a former MP and Ambassador of Greece to UNESCO, died on Thursday at the age of 89.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Rosalynn Carter received her final farewells Wednesday in the same tiny town where she and Jimmy Carter were born, forever their home base as they climbed to the White House and traveled the world for humanitarian causes.
SALEM TOWNSHIP, MI – The Greek-American Poulos family’s restaurant Karl’s Cabin, 6005 Gotfredson Road in Plymouth, Salem Township, a staple in the area severely damaged by a devastating fire on February 15, reopened on November 29, The Detroit News (TDN) reported.
BROOKLYN, NY – ElectrifyNY coalition, lawmakers, and environmental justice advocates join advocacy forces in support of the Clean Deliveries Act (S.
NEW YORK – Michael N. Bapis, Managing Director, Private Wealth Advisor and Head of Sports and Entertainment with Vios Advisors at Rockefeller Capital Management, was elected Vice Chairman of Leadership 100 by the Board of Trustees at their meeting of November 3, succeeding James Pantelidis of Blessed Memory, according to Chairman Demetrios G.
ATHENS - Greece’s moves to lessen tax evasion will include a penalty up to 500,000 euros ($546,266) for property buyers using cash and canceling the deal to prohibit the purchase.
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