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The crew member is the first to return home from a total of about 48 seafarers - Greeks, Filipinos and online taxi athens a Cypriot - who are expected to be gradually released and replaced in the coming days, a Greek official told Reuters.
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Iran has agreed to release the crews of the Greek tankers it seized in May, the MT Prudent Warrior and Delta Poseidon, in response to the confiscation of oil by the United States taxi from Volos port to acropolis an Iranian-flagged tanker in Greece.
Erdogan said Athens understood Ankara's message when Turkish officials have said "we may suddenly arrive one night" - a comment that Greek and some other Western officials have condemned as a threat to a neighbouring state.
The block reserved for online taxi athens 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 the sea´s endangered sperm whales, transportation in greece Thessaloniki and for other cetaceans already threatened by fishing, collisions with ships and transportation in greece Thessaloniki plastic pollution.
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.
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece´s energy and 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.
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Environmental groups have argued that deep-sea prospecting for resources Critics also highlight the potential risk of spills, and minibus taxi athens say the project, if successful, would increase Greece´s use of fossil fuels amid the planet´s climate change crisis.
Turkish prospecting east of the southern Greek island of Crete two years ago prompted a military buildup. Meanwhile, the prospecting also comes at a time of heightened tension with Turkey, with which Greece has been at loggerheads over offshore exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean.
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.
European countries have been scrambling to replace their former dependency on Russian fossil fuels following Russia´s invasion of Ukraine in February and the subsequent damaging of pipelines designed to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany.
If viable gas deposits are eventually found, "no discounts will be made regarding safety and environmental protection" in any potential mining operations, rafina to athens airport taxi cost he said. "All research is being done with the basic priority of the protection of the environment," he said, athens guided tour speaking later in the day at Greece´s Foreign Press Association.
"The reserves we speculate exist southwest of Crete and the Peloponnese might be the last hope the mining industry has to find a large reserve ... in the region of southeastern Europe, in our region," he said.
