Eco-Gozo proposal in Cabinet soon
A document with 2,500 proposals for an Eco-Gozo by 2015 is being presented to Cabinet in the coming days, Gozo Minister Giovanna Debono said this morning.
The minister was being interviewed by PBS journalist Sergio Mallia on Radio 101.
She said that the document, which was an electoral promise for this legislature and part of the government’s vision for 2015, was the result of consultation with more than 60 experts in a number of sectors, civil society and the administration of the Isle of Wight in the UK, which had adopted a similar strategy.
The minister said that the strategy contained short and long term targets. Once approved by Cabinet, it would be published for a short consultation period before a final version for implementation would be drawn up.
The Eco-Gozo vision, the minister said, did not mean the freezing of investment and development on the island but it was a vision based on sustainable development.
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Joe Fenech
Sep 8th 2009, 20:05
Ivan Attard
Spot on!!!
Ahna l-ewwel inbazwru imbghad nghidu "iiiii, ara - ghax ma nibzghuz ghall-ambjent".
Malta (and Gozo) ARE FINISHED!!!!!!!!
Roy Perry
Sep 7th 2009, 08:24
I am very interested in the comment about contacts made in the Isle if Wight. If ever there was an island administration that is well organised this is it. There is a well maintained system of public rights of way, an electric and a steam railway, four ferry routes, beautiful, well-kept beaches, an airport and aircraft manufacturing base, tremendous heritage sites, beautiful scenery and a common-sense approach to ecology, including solar powered street lamps. The Island hosts the home of Britten-Norman Aviation who have the Trislander back in production and are associated with an exciting new aviation project called the Skylander, the next step in short-fiels aircraft development. Let us hope that some of this 'rubbed off' on the Gozo delegation. Hope lies eternal-or so they say!
Vectis Isle (The Roman Name) companies also helped set up Gozo Glass and are the only ones to publish a Perry's Guide Map based on my work in the 1970's.
Ivan Attard
Sep 6th 2009, 21:45
CAN WE ALL LAUGH NOW? What a big joke!
That Gozo has become well past eco-friendly is very well known. Go on keep sanctioning 3 floors and a penthouse in ALL villages especially tourist oriented ones like Xaghra and Gharb (I will not mention Xlendi and Marsalforn because these have become one hell of a mess) and then issue permits for chicken manure guzzling 'mushroom farms' next to 5 star resorts and the remaining pristine countryside in Gharb - and you have ECO FRIENDLINESS of the first degree.
Rita Attard
Sep 6th 2009, 17:31
What a joke,Eco-Gozo,very funny. What Gozo needs is good roads and a lot of working apportunities for us and our children to work in Gozo and not in Malta where most of our graduates have to find work and everyday rain or shine have to travel to Malta to earn their living. Also why there is no shelter for the Gozitan in Cirkewwa port ,whenever it is raining they have to run hundreds of metres to the buses in the rain when it`s raining and then they have to stay a whole day with their wet clothes in they don`t happen to have spare ones to change, THAT`S DISGRACEFULL, " ARUKAZA ,TAL-MISTHIJA"
Joseph Tonna
Sep 6th 2009, 13:01
Why Eco-Malta is not being proposed as well .... ? !