Mr. Yannis Economides is a Mechanical Engineer who has already completed 4 decades of professional activity and is one of the three members of the interdisciplinary team (Prof. Lazaros Vassiliadis and Prof. Th. Karapantsios) that was set up by the Municipality of Thassos to support on a technical level its negative attitude and its great concerns in the implementation of such a project. In the following opinion, Mr Economides analyses the extent of the risks arising from the implementation of the project in Prinos. The risks are extremely high and the most critical ones in his view are UNMANAGED. Their impact will be dramatic not only on the environment but on the lives of the people of the region for millennia to come.
The study of Mr.Economides was submitted on behalf of the Municipality of Thassos by the Mayor of Thassos Mr.Kyriakidis to the Ministry of Environment and Energy with the appeal to issue a negative opinion on the draft permit of the project.
