Keratea authorities were not prepared for the meeting

The meeting between the Environment minister and Keratea representatives were led to a dead end. The local agents did not have with them a written and articulate proposal for waste management, so they were asked to do so once again.

However, the minister seems to have hardened her stance on the issue. It also seems that she is not willing to change regional planning and insists on the Ovriokastro solution, although it is unacceptable to the Lavreotiki municipality. Upon leaving, the authorities of Lavreotiki and Saronikos made conflicting statements.

The mayor of Lavreotiki, Kostas Levantis, argued that the town will come back with a concrete proposal on the technical nature of the project in the next 10 days. He stressed that the minister does not insist on the location of the sanitary landfill in Ovriokastro.

On the other hand, the mayor of Saronikos Petros Filippou – who took part in a meeting for the first time today – said that the negotiations are at a crucial turning point and the minister insisted on the implementation of the regional planning as time is of the essence. According to him, Birbili maintains that it is difficult to change the planning. Currently, the only point of convergence between the two sides seems to be the installation of a waste management factory in the Keratea industrial park.

Keratea representatives did not exclude the solution of the old landfill. An announcement by the ministry stresses that there is no room for loss of funds and asked for the immediate implementation of the plan.

But the rate at which the relevant processes are moving does not leave much room for optimism.