Prinos CO2
An Isolated Incident or Part of a Larger Plan?
06/07/2026
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Beyond the well-known problems we face regarding CO2 in our region, which we have analyzed extensively in recent years, there is a knowledge gap among most of our fellow citizens regarding Prinos and the broader picture of Prinos’s role in Europe’s energy landscape. In other words, it is easier to understand the damage such a project can cause than to grasp the plans and tools devised by Brussels bureaucrats to set these projects in motion.
The analysis that follows in this video, which I have just finished, generalizes the Prinos project and focuses not only on the new relationship of dependency between the periphery and the metropolis but also on certain key financial tools created by the EU to implement the energy transition.
The CCS project in Prinos is not an isolated incident, but part of a broader energy policy strategy aimed at transforming our region and the North Aegean into a major energy hub for Southeast Europe.
For the Kavala region, and Thasos in particular, this creates a tension between its role as an energy hub, the protection of the environment and the landscape, and the importance of tourism to the local economy. The local economy depends heavily on tourism and the image of an unspoiled natural and marine landscape. For these reasons, we, the residents of the Thasos/Kavala region, distinguished scientists such as the internationally renowned seismologist Mr. Papadopoulos and Professor Karapantsios, as well as many other scientists and experts from Greece and abroad, oppose the storage of CO2 in the Prinos wells.
Here is the broader political and economic picture of the problem.
