Aegean University Amphitheatre Saturday 24 February 2024 The event – discussion entitled “The Island of Silence – Public Health, Environment, Democracy” (lasting 4 hours!), with the participation of journalists, lawyers, doctors, engineers and activists from all over the country, co-organised by the Environmental Quality Observatoty of Syros (EQOS) and the Student Association of the Department…
(Image source aigaionews.gr) We have had to hear from the mayors, by an almost absolute majority of the municipal councillors in question, but also by officials, that the municipality has no responsibility for the pollution, which covers the city as a veil. They might be seeing the children shrouding in fog, the city to be…
Cutting of the pie of Neoriou 2024 (image from syrostoday.gr) It was 2019 when some, within the shipyard site, in the presence of representatives of the authorities of Syros and institutional bodies, referred to their fellow citizens concerned about the environment and the health risks posed by pollution and described them as ‘human drains and…
The look of the beaches of Syros, full of pegs (summer umbrella bases), which were either swept away by the sea creating dangers, or remaining in their position preventing the free use of beaches by citizens, was piteous and insulting. The EQOS requested the competent authorities (the Municipality of Syros and the Port Fund) to…
In our previous communication, we have made it known that the Environment Quality Observatory of Syros, in pursuit of its statutory objectives, intends to participate actively in the relevant consultation/procedure for the adoption of the new environmental terms of the Neorio. In this context, we sent a letter to the competent authorities involved. Details of…
The Environmental Quality Observatory of Syros (EQOS) was established in July 2020. The reason for the establishment of the observatory was the concern of the residents of Syros, as expressed in social media, about the very frequent incidents of pollution on the sea surface of the port, the dust cloud that often hovered over the wider…
Την Κυριακή 24 Οκτωβρίου 2021 συγκλήθηκε Έκτακτη Γενική Συνέλευση του ΠΠΠΣ στον υπαίθριο χώρο του Κτιρίου Κορνηλάκη με κύριο θέμα τις τρεις αγωγές ύψους άνω των €3.000.000 κατά του συλλόγου και μελών του προσωπικά, από τις εταιρείες ONEX που εκδικάζονται στις 10 Δεκεμβρίου 2021. Μετά την από κοινού συμφωνημένη αναβολή της εκδίκασης των δύο πρώτων…
On 24.09.2021, the discussion of two of the three lawsuits filed by ONEX against the Environmental Quality Observatory of Syros and its members, claiming compensation for a total amount of more than 3.000.000 €, was scheduled. Contrary to what has been published in some local media, the lawyers for both sides had jointly decided to request a postponement in order to…
Καθαρισμός Ακτογραμμής – ΤοιχογραφίαΑθλητικό Κέντρο Δημ. Βικέλας – Μαρίνα Λαζαρέτα Την Τετάρτη 11 Αυγούστου 2021, το Παρατηρητήριο Ποιότητας Περιβάλλοντος Σύρου και το Stray Art Festival 2021 προχώρησαν σε μια συλλογική δράση, με τοιχογραφία και καθαρισμό της ακτογραμμής από το Αθλητικό Κέντρο Δημ. Βικέλας έως και την είσοδο της μαρίνας στα Λαζαρέτα. Ο όγκος των σκουπιδιών…
A new extrajudicial document (the 5th) notified us of one of the two (!) ONEX on 07.07.2021, on the occasion of the publication of the written report we submitted to the authorities on 29.06.2021 regarding the accumulation of toxic sandblasting waste in an OPEN area of the yard in violation of its operating license. With…
