VERMIO SOS!!! EORDAIA SOS
(Coordinating Committee Against the Installation of Renewable Energy Projects in Western Macedonia)
FAUNA: Bear, Wolf, Fox, Marten, Badger, Weasel, Wildcat, Bat, Wild Boar, Deer, Ground Squirrel, Squirrel, etc.
BIRDS: Eagle Owl, Alpine Accentor, Chough, Redstart, Woodlark, etc.
FLORA: 1,035 species of flora, 117 endemic to the Balkans, and 34 endemic to Greece.
43 herbs (mountain tea, chamomile, salep, linden, dandelion, colchicum, periwinkle, etc.)
Fruit trees in Eastern and Western Vermio sustain the villages of Eordaia, Veria, and Naousa with PDO products (cherries, apples, peaches) that are exported worldwide.
Can this natural wealth accommodate 59 wind farms with accompanying projects, platforms, construction sites, offices, workshops, and an Ultra-High Voltage Center across 800,000 acres of alpine pastureland like Vermio?
On August 9 at 5:30 a.m., the second citizen intervention took place at the location of Agios Dimitrios. The first occurred on July 26, 2024.
We speak with NIKOS VOUNOTRIPIDIS, a retired OTE employee, resident of Ptolemaida, candidate for regional councilor with the LEFT CONVERGENCE OF WESTERN MACEDONIA, and co-founder of the Eordaia Citizens Solidarity Group, with many years of activism during the austerity years.
MUSIC LIST: 1) Cornelius Castoriadis speaks, 2) Fillomila – Giannis Spyropoulos Bach, 3) The New Barbarism – Pavlos Pavlidis & B Movies, 4) They Call Me Root Now – Vangelis Markantonis, 5) The Factory – Giorgos Tzavellas “Barber”.