UPDATED: 'No lessons learnt' from Sant' Antnin plant controversy - committee

lgalea

Jan 27th 2009, 21:59

Duncan Sant et al
Have a look at http://www.cnimalta.org/sa.html to see a Masters in International Law thesis to see what other countries did about incinerators.

J Martinelli

Jan 27th 2009, 21:06

Duncan Sant, the use of consecutive dots between the end of one part of a sentence and the start of the remaining part, indicates that there is more in between. Since I had quotation marks at the beginning and end of the quote, then any intelligent reader will take it that the rest can be found easily as you did. I had to do that to stay within 200 words allowed in response to the article.

If you want to comment on the points I raised, be my guest, but let me remind you that your opposition was purely political spearheaded by Dr. Muscat who tried to convince the EU to cut the funding. After investigation, it was found that the project was within the parameters established under EU law, and improved emissions and the recycling process already in place.

Your committee seems to have looked at only one aspect known as 'NIMBY' - not in my back yard. The MLP had been telling us that it had three other alternative sites in Malta and one in Gozo, but those sites remained a tight secret - only because either they had none in mind or for fear of losing votes.

Duncan Sant

Jan 27th 2009, 17:34

Dear Martinelli (the dear is VERY ironic)

You seem to like to cut shortcuts when quoting. The quote should have been : "The committee said that the Sant’Antnin plant was originally meant to handle waste from all over Malta, and it was only after strong opposition that the authorites had reviewed their strategy and decided to have other plants as well."

If you lived in Marsascala and not in some far part of Timbuktu you would have known what was the real plan for the Recycling Plant, you would know how disgusting the supposedly "public hearing" was by denying everyone the right to speak and by having a board who was made up of 5 out of 7 persons with interests in enlarging the plant.

When you become a true Maltese and spend time in Marsascala, you will really know what it means to have such a plant right on your doorstep

J Martinelli

Jan 27th 2009, 15:57

Here comes another round of spins!

1. This committee was against the enlarging and modernization of an EXISTING plant. They came up with all kinds of hypothesis. This plant is operating far more efficiently than the previous one and emits much less polluting agents than before.

2. The Sant'Antnin plant was never designed nor intended to handle all of Malta's garbage, therefore it was to follow that in order to maximize recycling and cut down on landfill requirements, more plants had to be strategically placed to handle the balance of the garbage output.

3. It made little sense to ship Gozo's garbage to Malta, not only because it is uneconomical but also quite undesirable since the garbage trucks, shared passenger vehicle space on the Gozo Channel boats.

4. The committee contradicts itself when it said, "The committee said that the Sant'Antnin plant was originally meant to handle waste from all over Malta, and it was only after strong opposition that the authorities ....decided to have other plants as well" If that is so and the committee was against it, why does it oppose the planned 'other plants' now?

It's the committee who hasn't learned any lessons.

michael fenech

Jan 27th 2009, 15:08

Correct me if I’m wrong, but once a MLP leader (Sant) wanted to built two or three Recycling plants.

But of course the PN and there apologists said that we can’t have these Recycling Plants all over Malta.

It seems to me that a lot of thinks that were strongly rejected when proposed by the MLP are now being adopted by GonziPN and his elf’s.

Wayne Flask

Jan 27th 2009, 15:01

Thanks, dear Wasteserv, Government and silent Opposition, for providing us people of the south with more second class citizenship.

It is clear you wish to make our home the dumpyard of Malta, without taking into account the most of basic of concerns - our health.

Thanks indeed.

Anthony Mercieca

Jan 27th 2009, 14:59

The lesson should be learnt by those who want to stifle the advances that Malta with Eu assistance is making in environmental issues to the benefit of all. No good alternative is being discarded by the administration. So please come with ideas not objections

Ian Bugeja

Jan 27th 2009, 14:32

We should do like our neighbors in Naples where the rubbish ended up in the streets as nobody wants treatment plants in their cities/towns. Malta is too small hence such plants always end up near people.

The incinerator makes sense to be located near the Delimara power station since heat generated from it could be used to power the turbines.