The new airport at Kasteli; an absurd plan for Crete.

  Please note, subscribe to, and disseminate the petition of the citizens of Crete:

Sign the petition here. 

 Over the past decade, along with a lot of our fellow citizens and a number of community collectives from the city of Heraklion and all over Crete, we have been fighting against the devastating plan to install a new airport right at the heart of the island of Crete. The project concerns the construction of a massive air transport infrastructure in the middle of the island, in between twenty-six historical and traditional villages, in a place where such a construction literally does not fit.

 At the ‘umbilical scope’ of the Minoans and of Homer, at the plain of Pediada, stand the rural hinterlands of Crete, one of the most significant agro-nutritional centers of the region for 5,000 years now, which this project will irrevocably ruin.

 According to documented predictions by independent scientists, the proposal for a new airport in