Just three days ago, the Ministry of Environment and Energy “lectured” us that the withdrawal of global giant ExxonMobil from a 20,000-square-kilometer block is simply “portfolio management,” PASOK notes in a statement.
“Today, the entry of Chevron—already present in the country—into a joint venture for a plot of just 2,700 square kilometers is being hailed asa ‘vote of confidence,’ and indeed directly ‘in the Mitsotakis government.’ Apparently, votes are becoming a scarce commodity as the elections approach.
Really, what exactly was the complete withdrawal of the then-established giants Total and Repsol in 2021–2022? If we were to follow the government’s latest interpretation, we would have to characterize it as a blatant vote of no confidence in the Mitsotakis government.
Postscript 1: Gentlemen of the government, lies have short legs. When you write about the so-called “first deep exploratory drilling since the Restoration of Democracy,” you are knowingly lying. If you had looked, not far away, on the Ministry of Environment and Energy’s website, you would have found that 75 hydrocarbon exploratory wells have been drilled since 1975. If you had looked a little further, you would have found that among these were deep-well drillings, long before your time, after the Metapolitefsi.
Postscript 2: We all know that the current momentum is not due to any initiative of your own, but to international developments, which forced you into a dramatic about-face.