Director of National Park could face sack for costing business millions

Today environment minister Antoni Tokarczuk will finally decide whether to dismiss the director of Tatrzanski National Park (TPN) Wojciech Gasienica Byrcyn. Dismissal is likely as Mr.Byrcyn, a green activist, is costing business tens of millions of dollars, say his critics who claim that the Director is holding up development in the Zakopane region. Voices of ecologists and politicians in favor of the current director have been expressed for two weeks, since the issue became public. The member of the Sejm commission of environment protection Radoslaw Gawlik from Freedom Union says that Byrcyn is an obstacle to businessmen who want to get rid of him . Besides, Gawlik asks about the role of "Adam Bachleda-Curus, mayor of Zakopane and also the head of electoral headquarters of Solidarity Election Action (AWSP), in which minister Tokarczuk is a deputy chairman". To complicate matters further, Tadeusz Bachleda-Curus, who is the environment vice minister and also the chief geologist in the country, is Adam Bachleda-Curus's brother. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.4), M.T