oil spill
Athens gulf area beaches clean and safe once again, after last year’s oil spill pollution crisis
There is no problem with the Saronic Gulf, in regards to pollution levels from oil. People can swim where they swam before the tanker “Agia Zoni II” sank, Ioannis Hatzianestis, senior researcher at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) told Athens-Macedonian News Agency’s radio station Praktoreio 104.9 FM.
Mitsotakis insists on shipping minister’s resignation during stormy parliament session
Main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis once again demanded the resignation of Shipping Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis on Wednesday, during a heated altercation in parliament regarding the sunken tanker “Agia Zoni II” and the resulting oil spill.
PM chairs meeting on oil spill, revokes extended seaworthiness certificates
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday ordered that all certificates of seaworthiness that have received extensions should be immediately revoked and for the ships involved to undergo emergency inspections, during a meeting with the shipping ministry leadership at the Maximos Mansion.
ND leader over oil spill: PM Tsipras must accept Kouroumblis’ resignation
The prime minister must accept Shipping Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis’ resignation, New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday while touring areas affected by the oil spill in the Saronic Gulf.