What the Mayor will say about the waste on Tuesday
waste management
19 Feb 2019
/ 07:42
CORFU. The working meeting will take place in a hotel out of town with representatives from the local authority and other organizations. Mr. Nikolouzos will present a road map for the facility and new residue landfill unit, as indicated by those who carried out the study, which will temporarily include the use of the existing facilities at Temploni and Lefkimmi.
On Tuesday at 19:00 at an out of town hotel the Mayor of Corfu will present what is being done by the Solid Waste Management Association (SYDISA) and the local authority to solve the waste management problem. Representatives from Corfu organizations, political parties, the local authority, the Municipality and Regional Administration have been invited to the meeting.
Following the postponement of last week's meeting it would seem that a hotel out of town was chosen in order to avoid disturbances from representatives of organizations that haven't been invited. The media has also not been invited to the meeting - they were also excluded by the organizing authority from the presentation of the study for the waste management facility and from last week's postponed meeting.
At Tuesday's meeting Mr. Nikolouzos will give an extensive presentation of how things stand at the moment regarding the purchase of the 55-stremma playing field adjoining the Temploni facility on the north side in order to set up a temporary management facility. This facility will have a second production line and waste bales will be deposited there before transportation. He will also give an update on the licensing of the charity plot of land - to be used to relieve the storage of waste bales around the baler.
A crucial issue is the contracting of the work to restore the area where the cells were located in order to free up the area which is earmarked for the construction of the Integrated Waste Management Unit. The local authority and SYDISA believe that this process will move quickly as long as the existing area, where the Temploni facility is at present located, doesn't require time-consuming licensing procedures for the Unit to be set up.
The road map for a solution to the situation, at least until the new facility and a new residue landfill cell are constructed as indicated by the study, requires the immediate licensing of the SYDISA facility in Lefkimmi. This can be gathered from what the SYDISA President Spyros Aspiotis says on the local TV channels every night and from what the Regional Governor Theodoros Galiatsatos said at a recent Regional Council meeting and his statements afterwards.
Lefkimmi residents find this unacceptable and yesterday (Monday 18/2) they gathered outside the facility when they heard that there was going to be a new inspection by the Regional Environmental Services to see whether or not the conditions previously set (33?) had been fulfilled and a licence could be granted.
Following his update at Tuesday's meeting the Mayor will request the support of those present in the implementation of the aforementioned road map as all other solutions - for diverse reasons - have been eliminated. In a recent telephone conversation he had with the Deputy Minister for the Environment Socrates Famelos the latter ruled out any possibility of the Corfu waste being taken off the island and insisted on the implementation of PESDA (Regional Waste Management Plan) transitional measures.
Meanwhile, Lefkimmi residents decided at a meeting to escalate their protests and take them into town yet again this summer.
Following the postponement of last week's meeting it would seem that a hotel out of town was chosen in order to avoid disturbances from representatives of organizations that haven't been invited. The media has also not been invited to the meeting - they were also excluded by the organizing authority from the presentation of the study for the waste management facility and from last week's postponed meeting.
At Tuesday's meeting Mr. Nikolouzos will give an extensive presentation of how things stand at the moment regarding the purchase of the 55-stremma playing field adjoining the Temploni facility on the north side in order to set up a temporary management facility. This facility will have a second production line and waste bales will be deposited there before transportation. He will also give an update on the licensing of the charity plot of land - to be used to relieve the storage of waste bales around the baler.
A crucial issue is the contracting of the work to restore the area where the cells were located in order to free up the area which is earmarked for the construction of the Integrated Waste Management Unit. The local authority and SYDISA believe that this process will move quickly as long as the existing area, where the Temploni facility is at present located, doesn't require time-consuming licensing procedures for the Unit to be set up.
The road map for a solution to the situation, at least until the new facility and a new residue landfill cell are constructed as indicated by the study, requires the immediate licensing of the SYDISA facility in Lefkimmi. This can be gathered from what the SYDISA President Spyros Aspiotis says on the local TV channels every night and from what the Regional Governor Theodoros Galiatsatos said at a recent Regional Council meeting and his statements afterwards.
Lefkimmi residents find this unacceptable and yesterday (Monday 18/2) they gathered outside the facility when they heard that there was going to be a new inspection by the Regional Environmental Services to see whether or not the conditions previously set (33?) had been fulfilled and a licence could be granted.
Following his update at Tuesday's meeting the Mayor will request the support of those present in the implementation of the aforementioned road map as all other solutions - for diverse reasons - have been eliminated. In a recent telephone conversation he had with the Deputy Minister for the Environment Socrates Famelos the latter ruled out any possibility of the Corfu waste being taken off the island and insisted on the implementation of PESDA (Regional Waste Management Plan) transitional measures.
Meanwhile, Lefkimmi residents decided at a meeting to escalate their protests and take them into town yet again this summer.
