Residents bar access to satellite station site <br />By Jacqueline Theodoulou<br /><br />WORKERS yesterday gave up trying to reach the Hellas Sat antenna site, after residents of the neighbouring villages of Sia, Mosphiloti and Alampra went into their sixth day blockading access to the area.<br /><br />The residents, including women and children, are gathered on a hill overlooking the building site so that they can keep an eye on everything and not allow access to the workers. <br />Tractors and other types of farm vehicles and machines are being used to block the roads leading to the site.<br /><br />At a meeting to discuss the issue, Sia Community Leader Christakis Georgiou yesterday suggested to the government that the controversial satellite park should be situated elsewhere, far from inhabited areas.<br /><br />In a statement he asked the parties and members of Parliament to pressure the government into finding an appropriate site for the construction of the Hellas Sat satellite station.<br />The residents are adamant that they will not budge until a solution has been found, even if it means standing there day and night. <br /><br />Residents claim their health could be at serious risk due to the probable electromagnetic radiation a new station would emit and have condemned the government’s failure to carry out proper medical and epidemiological tests.<br /><br />Green Party deputy George Perdikis stated at the meeting that a solution to the problem would be to suspend building plans and not allow the company to move forward unless proper medical tests have been carried out and alternative building sites have been considered. <br /><br />AKEL deputy Stella Mishaoulli said there must be alternative solutions to the problem – a new location somewhere neutral where there can be no health victims. <br /><br />Mishaoulli said that as a paediatrician she had come across instances where high-tension radiation from cables has caused serious health issues.