Pullicino plants trees to compensate for electoral campaign paper

Flowers might not bloom in Parliament, but getting a candidate to Parliament might help trees grow.

Resources Minister George Pullicino said this evening that he has planted 15 trees at Ta' Qali national park to compensate for the paper used in his electoral campaign.

He said the trees were planted as part of the 34U campaign on the basis of a formula which calculated the amount of material sent by the Pullicino campaign.

The exercise was audited by Christopher Ciantar, Vincent Attard, Paul Pace and Stephan De Marco.

Mr Pullicino said he wanted his electoral campaign to have the least possible environmental impact, or, if possible none at all. Disseminating information was a key element of an electoral campaign, but there were ways how the environmental impact could be mitigated.

He augured that this concept of compensating for any environmental impact would be taken up by all sectors of society.