Quarrying in the Pentadaktylos mountain range constitutes “rapacious development with very serious consequences on the natural environment”, Stelios Michael, director of the mines and quarries service, told Phileleftheros last week.
This was news only in the sense that the criticism came from the Republic of Cyprus, as opposed to environmentalists in the north.
“Quarries, which have become the bleeding wound of the country, continue to create a major environmental disaster,”
