London 16.06.

2014





Kyriakos Gkikas
Paulou Koudourioti 2
Grammatiko Attikis
P.C. 19007
Municipality Marathonas
Greece
E-mail : kyriakosgkikas@yahoo.co.uk
Mobile: 07751370525





To

Oxford University
School of Geography & Environment
Professor Robert J. Whittaker

Professor of Biogeography Fellow and Tutor of St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Leader of the Biodiversity, Ecosystems and Conservation research cluster
Tel: +44 (0)1865 275845
Email: robert.whittaker@ouce.ox.ac.uk

&&
Dr Konstantinos Triantis
Special Secretariat for Water, Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, M.
Iatridou str. & Kifissias Ave. 115 26, Athens Greece.
Email: konstantinos.triantis@ouce.ox.ac.uk; kostas@nhmc.uoc.gr;
island.biogeography@gmail.com

&&

Professor Paulo Alexandre Vieira Borges

Universidade dos Aores Departamento de Cincias Agrrias CITA-A
(Grupo da Biodiversidade dos Aores) Rua Capito Joo D'Avila 9700-042 - Angra do Herosmo
Terceira - Azores
Telefone : +351295402200
Correio electrnico : pborges@uac.pt

&&
Everyone






Dear Special Secretary of the Water Department of the Ministry for Environment and Climate
Changes,

Dr Konstantinos Triantis,


After checking your CV carefully, I realised that amongst others, you have collaborated in the past with
many Universities, both in Greece and abroad.


In particular,

i) You have been a PostDoc Researcher at the Arorean Biodiversity Group, Agronomy
Department, Azores University.
ii) You have been a researcher at the Faculty of Geography, Oxford University, (your
supervisors, being, Reader Paulo A V Borges and Prof. J . Whittaker),
iii) Also a scientific Fellow of Oxford University Centre for Environment, (OUCE), at Oxford
University and many more. Well Done!!!!!!!!


Therefore, taking into consideration all the above, as well the fact that you are at present the Special
Secretary of the Water Department of the Ministry for Environment and Climatic Changes, and also
based on the results of your report that there are NO Water Torrents ( !!!!!!!) within the area in
which the OEDA ( Landfill Area) of Grammatriko is based and, having repeatedly experienced the
ecological/natural disaster that occurs, every single time in the aftermath of a heavy rainfall in the
Grammatiko area.


I would, as follows,

- Ask the Honourable Professors, (Prof. Paulo AV Borges and Prof. J Whittaker), would they
keep staying in their position, in the aftermath of all the above disasters, or would they have promptly
submitted their resignations???????????????????????????????????????? (Please see attached pictures
first)

- Since the decision is purely of a political and not of a scientific nature, as it should normally be, if you
treated your scientific area/field with respect, what would you do, seeing that all the adverse effects that
may well emerge out of the function of HYTA,( Landfill), may well lead to the poisoning of a large number
of inhabitants of the Grammatiko area???????????????????????????????????????????????

Honourable Professors,
Prof. Paulo AV Borges and Prof. J Whittaker
Please take a stance on the entire matter, it is an issue of vital importance!



Warm Regards


Kyriakos Gkikas









Background of facts

Report of control for OEDA, Grammatiko area, drafted by the General Inspector, Dr Panagiotis Merkos:

A] 18/01/2012, OIK : 101 Report of partial control of compliance with the environmental terms and
environmental legislation, in relation to the construction of the installation for the Waste Management in
the area Black Mountain, of Grammatiko.

B] 07/03/2014, OIK: 634& 635 Act of Confirmation of Violation towards the Attiki Constituency and
K/X Lamda Tehniki SA, ILEKTOR SA, MESOGEIOS ATEE, the main and Assistant Contractors of the
Construction of the Installation for Waste Management, (OEDA), of North-Eastern Attiki based in the area
of Black Mountain, Attiki.

C] From reports A and B, it can be proved that there are obvious errors in relation to the construction of
the installation, which were deliberately concealed when the Environmental Consequences Report was
drafted.
Furthermore, there were discovered another 6 violations:



In addition to this,

Report drafted by Dr Konstantinos Triantis,

. there is no reference to construction within an area that is crossed over by a water
torrent/stream, without the proper permission to have been granted.

(see the report drafted by Dr Konstantinos Triantis- Secretary of the Water Department of the Ministry
of Environment and Climatic Change, report dated 29th April 2014, amongst others special reference is
being made as to the NON = Existence of a Water Stream).



CONCLUSION
- Which of the above government/state clerks do you believe are doing their job properly and which of
them have breached their fiduciary duties towards the state and the citizens?????????????????????????
Don't you think that they must be judged by us, ordinary thinking citizens?????????????????????????????
Welcome to Greek Corruption!!!
Shall we have your thoughts please from everyone ??????????










References
Rainfalls 15.06.2014 Rainfalls in Grammatiko Landfill area
Available at http://exotaxyta.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/1562014-1800.html [Accessed 16
th
June
2014]


Rainfalls 14.11.2013 - Rainfalls in Grammatiko Landfill area
Available at http://exotaxyta.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/blog-post_1266.html [ Accessed 14
th
November 2013]


Paulo Alexandre Vieira Borges Curriculum Vitae
Available at http://www.gba.uac.pt/quem/ver.php?id=4 [ Accessed 17
th
June 2014]


Professor Robert J. Whittaker Curriculum Vitae
Available at http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/rwhittaker.html [Accessed 17
th
June 2014]


Dr Konstantinos Triantis Curriculum Vitae
Available at https://sites.google.com/site/triantiska/ [Accessed 1st January 2013]


Your video has been published at http://youtu.be/GAfHpU7DHyk

Your video has been published at http://youtu.be/IM7SV85b39c



Appendixes

http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/staff/rwhittaker.html
Academic Profile

Rob Whittaker has a BSc in Botany and Geography from the University of
Hull (1980), an MSc in Ecology from University College North Wales
(1982), and a doctorate from University College Cardiff (1985), where
he studied vegetation succession on recently deglaciated terrain, in
the Jotunheimen, Norway. He joined the Oxford School of Geography and
the Environment in 1986, having previously worked for a year as a
research officer at Birkbeck College, London. In 1990 he was appointed
to a university lectureship and a fellowship at St Edmund Hall. In
1999 he was awarded the title of Reader and, in 2004, Professor of
Biogeography.
Rob has published over 80 peer-review articles and is also the author
of Island Biogeography: ecology, evolution, and conservation (OUP,
first edition 1998; second edition 2007). Recently collaborations
within Rob's research group have included two Marie Curie fellows (Dr
Miguel Arajo and Dr Kostas Triantis) and three Rhodes Scholars
(Dr Niall O'Dea, Dr Ben Sharp and Dr James Watson).

From 1995 to 2004 Rob was the editor-in-chief of Global Ecology &
Biogeography - a journal of macroecology, and in mid-2004 he became
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Biogeography, the leading
international journal of biogeography. Rob is a founding member of the
International Biogeography Society, was a Director-at-Large from
2005-2006, was co-convener of the biennial meeting, Tenerife 9-13
January 2007, and was President of the International Biogeography
Society for 2009-2010.

Rob Whittaker was appointed to an Honorary Professorship in
Macroecology and Climate at the Department of Biology, University of
Copenhagen from July 2008 for a five year term. He was admitted as a
Fellow of the Society of Biology in September 2011. Rob was elected a
foreign member of the Academia das Cincias de Lisboa in July
2011..






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