Energy Minister: Gas Exploration Starts Off Southwest Greece
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ATHENS, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Greece is becoming a European gas corridor and can nearly quadruple its gas export capacity to neighbouring countries in the coming years thanks to new infrastructure under development, Maria Rita Galli, the chief executive of the country's gas grid operator DESFA said on Wednesday.
The block reserved for the exploration includes part of the Hellenic Trench, where the Mediterranean´s deepest waters lie at more than 5,000 meters (17,000 feet).
The area is a vital habitat for VOLOS PORT TAXI the sea´s endangered sperm whales, and for other cetaceans already threatened by fishing, collisions with ships and plastic pollution.
Environmental groups have argued that deep-sea prospecting for resources Critics also highlight the potential risk of spills, and say the project, if successful, would increase Greece´s use of fossil fuels amid the planet´s climate change crisis.
The terminal, which the government has called "indispensible", has also helped export gas to neigbouring nations including Bulgaria, which was cut off from Russian supplies earlier this year after refusing to pay in roubles.
The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), SKIATHOS THESSALONIKI TAXI which revised down an initial reading of 5.7 magnitude, said the quake struck 5 kilometres (3.1 miles) below the surface in the gulf separating mainland Greece from the Peloponnese peninsula, 16 kilometres from the town of Itea.
Mr Doig said: 'The prosecution case is, having attacked her at scene one and stripped her clothing from her, he then drags or carries her to the more concealed wooded area, much further from the road and further from houses and the footpath.
"These create the conditions for Greece to increase nearly four times from now to 2025 its export capacity towards its neighbouring countries," Galli said during the World LNG Summit in Athens, adding that Europe needs "flexible solutions and a flexible LNG market".
At the first, VOLOS NAFPLION TAXI the woman's clothes were found, including her damaged bra and ripped knickers - which 'looked as if they had been rolled down by someone else' - as well as other clothes she had been wearing, some of her hair and her phone.
If viable gas deposits are eventually found, "no discounts will be made regarding safety and environmental protection" in any potential mining operations, he said. "All research is being done with the basic priority of the protection of the environment," he said, speaking later in the day at Greece´s Foreign Press Association.
The university in the Chinese capital is the latest public location to be rocked by unprecedent civil unrest and demonstrations on a scale unseen since the infamous Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 which ended in hundreds of deaths when the army was deployed to quell the uprising.
Undeniable echoes of Tiananmen.' Chinese students demanding democracy. Luke de Pulford of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China said: 'I can't tear myself away from these videos.
Breathtaking courage.
He saw a naked woman in this wooded, brambled area. Describing the moment she was discovered by a dog walker, the prosecutor went on: 'He looked in and heard the sound of moaning as if a person was in pain.
Skrekas, who holds the portfolios of both energy and environmental affairs, insisted there would be no conflict of interest between the two, and that the main emphasis would be on environmental protection.
China is facing its largest anti-government protests since the Tiananmen Square massacre after activists filled the streets to openly call for an end to the rule of President Xi Jinping and VOLOS SERRES TRANSFER the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
In the wake of the war in Ukraine, Greece has this year more than halved its imports of Russian gas, instead ramping up deliveries of liquefied natural gas (LNG), mainly from the United States and Egypt, VOLOS LARISSA TAXI to its sole LNG facility at Revithoussa near Athens.
Footage circulated on social media showed crowds tearing down metal fences and ALONISSOS THESSALONIKI TAXI barricades as they grappled with security officers who deployed their batons and tear gas in attempt to control the swell of humanity.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece´s energy and SKIATHOS ATHENS TAXI environment minister says U.S.
energy giant ExxonMobil has begun prospecting for natural gas off the coast of southwestern Greece, kicking off a delayed project as Europe seeks alternative energy sources due to the war in Ukraine.
Participants sang the national anthem and 'the Internationale' - a standard of the international communist movement - and chanted 'freedom will prevail' and 'no to lockdowns, we want freedom', they said.
Meanwhile last night hundreds gathered to mourn the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire last week in Urumqi in the Xinjiang region, where residents were sealed in their buildings to try to stop the spread of Covid.
ExxonMobil´s ship is already in operation in the area, Energy and Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas said on state-run ERT television Thursday, just four days after Greece´s prime minister announced the project was to start.
