"Evidence" of panic

Friends of the Earth, Malta, has called on the ministry responsible for resources to make public the studies that led to the choice of Ghallis as the preferred site for a temporary waste landfill.

FoE, which wants to meet the minister responsible for resources to discuss the landfills issue, strongly objected to the decision to have 'temporary' sites, which, it said, could be avoided if enough effort were made to start work on the site for a permanent landfill.

The choice of the so-called temporary sites was also to be questioned, given that no preliminary studies were conducted on the potential sites, FoE said.

"It is evident that the authorities' ineffective handling of Malta's waste separation at source plans has led the ministry to panic and the decisions to have two more landfill sites is a reflection of such panic," FoE said.