Twelve women on Monday morning participated in a symbolic protest outside Hellas Gold at Skouries, on the northern Greek peninsula of Halkidiki protesting against the Environment ministry’s bill on forests.

Four of these women chained themselves to the gate of the worksite in a symbolic move demanding that the bill be withdrawn or voted against and that the Canadian company Eldorado Gold terminates its activities.

A new protest is expected on Tuesday when the Parliament’s summer session holds a vote on the bill, says a member of the Coordinating Committee of Associations of Stageira-Akanthos Yiannis Verginis.