"The reserves we speculate exist southwest of Crete and the Peloponnese might be the last hope the mining industry has to find a large reserve ... in the region of southeastern Europe, in our region," he said.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece´s energy and environment minister says U.S.
energy giant ExxonMobil has begun prospecting for natural gas off the coast of southwestern Greece, kicking off a delayed project as Europe seeks alternative energy sources due to the war in Ukraine.





Travelers were advised to contact airlines. Late Tuesday, aviation authorities announced that air traffic controllers and civil aviation workers would not participate in the strike after all.
That meant domestic and international flight cancellations and schedule changes announced by Greece's main airlines for Wednesday would be readjusted, with many flights taking place.



Unions planned to hold protest marches in the city Wednesday morning. In Athens, subways and buses were to suspend services all day Wednesday,, and taxis were set to stay off the streets from 6 a.m.
until Thursday morning.

"Our country´s workers, both in the public and in the private sectors, are battling against the high prices that are strangling households and citizens," ADEDY, a confederation of trade unions for transportation in greece Dion civil servants, said in a statement.

The block reserved for the exploration includes part of the Hellenic Trench, where the Mediterranean´s deepest waters lie at more than 5,000 meters (17,000 feet).
The area is a vital habitat for the sea´s endangered sperm whales, and taxi Vergina greece for Dion escorted tours other cetaceans already threatened by fishing, collisions with ships and Dion escorted tours plastic pollution.

Erdogan said Athens understood Ankara's message when Turkish officials have said "we may suddenly arrive one night" - a comment that Greek and some other Western officials have condemned as a threat to a neighbouring state.

Environmental groups have argued that deep-sea prospecting for resources Critics also highlight the potential risk of spills, and say the project, if successful, would increase Greece´s use of fossil fuels amid the planet´s climate change crisis.

Skrekas, private day tours in Vergina greece who holds the portfolios of both energy and environmental affairs, insisted there would be no conflict of interest between the two, and that the main emphasis would be on environmental protection.

European countries have been scrambling to replace their former dependency on Russian fossil fuels following Russia´s invasion of Ukraine in February and the subsequent damaging of pipelines designed to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany.

"All research is being done with the basic priority of the protection of the environment," he said, speaking later in the day at Greece´s Foreign Press Association. If viable gas deposits are eventually found, "no discounts will be made regarding safety and environmental protection" in any potential mining operations, he said.

Meanwhile, the prospecting also comes at a time of heightened tension with Turkey, with which Greece has been at loggerheads over offshore exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean. Turkish prospecting east of the southern Greek island of Crete two years ago prompted a military buildup.

ExxonMobil´s ship is already in operation in the area, Dion airport to city taxi cost Energy and transportation in greece Vergina Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas said on state-run ERT television Thursday, just four days after Greece´s prime minister announced the project was to start.

The Manchester United defender was found guilty of assaulting up to six officers and then attempting to bribe them inside a police station while on holiday with eight family members and friends. Pictured: Maguire leaves a court building in Syros, Greece in 2020

This means that any possible suitors would need to match those terms, which could make it difficult for United to recoup what they paid for the defender.  On signing from Leicester three years ago, Maguire penned a six-year deal with an option to extend to 2026 and minibus taxi Vergina has a salary of around £190,000 a week.

Maguire will head to Qatar after United's game with Fulham on Sunday, where he is expected to be first choice for Southgate in England's opener with Iran on November 21. However, it's a position he hasn't been in for his club this season. 

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He has fallen behind new signing Lisandro Martinez and Raphael Varane, while Victor online taxi Dion Lindelof was preferred to Maguire in United's 3-1 defeat by Aston Villa last weekend. It effectively makes the England man the club's fourth choice pick at centre-back. 

I don't worry about what the outcome is going to be. I don't worry about anything to do with it because my conscience is so clear about what happened that night. 'But one thing I would say about Mykonos is that I have no regrets.