Gonzi promises Mepa reply to black soot problem

j.spiteri

Nov 3rd 2009, 19:24

I blame you all....for trusting GonziPn with the running of this ruined country.

Raymond Cutajar

Nov 3rd 2009, 13:52

Why worry ? we are always told by the ADT( and the real office responsabile within the ADT is never mentioned why?) the trucks buses always pass their smoke tests there are NO smoking heavy trucks out there! Perhaps the prime minister should shift the responsability of the black stuff to the V R T office ??
On a point of law is the VRT the responsability of MEPA or of theA D T ? Seriously anybody can enlighten ? truly amazing !!

Charles Micallef

Nov 3rd 2009, 11:42

Amateurmalta.com...................

...........................six years to solve the black dust mystery problem without success and we now have two famous Government Entities blaming each other and the southern population keeps inhaling Malta's fresh air!

What is that old saying that is so applicable to managing Malta.....tal-mickey mouse!

Godwin Young

Nov 3rd 2009, 10:16

@Maria Zammit:

After years and years of chronic environmental mismanagement in the south of the island, pollution is now spreading all across Malta: You can only imagine how the southerner's health and well-being has been damaged over the past twenty years.

But of course, now that the whole of the island is in trouble, government is starting to do something. Would this administration have ignored say, for example, Sliema residents, had they had to face all the problems derived from two powerstations, fishfarms, gas and oil-bunkering, a freeport and a waste collection plant? Of course not.

What Sliema residents always seem to complain about is their precious promenade not being repaved for them every three-months or so - leaving the people from the south to face the highest incidence of cancer and asthma in the island alone.

R Axisa

Nov 3rd 2009, 09:19

@c scerri
So I can conclude that I should be invaded by these honey bees as my front porch, back yard and roof is full of them. I find them even on my car. I clean them every week, but I see no honey bees around, not a single one! With the quantity I find, there should be quite a number of honey bees around! Sorry, but I don't believe this is the source of these droplets!

Mike Magri

Nov 3rd 2009, 09:04

Sorry Dr. Gonzi ta... But what kind of an experts are these...!!! All they have to do is to go to Enemalta in Marsa, and just stay a few hundred meters away from the chimney for a few hours, and they will surely come up with ALL the answers they need...

On the other hand Mr Prime Minister... Please STOP treating ALL of us like some bunch of Idiots, to say the least... `cause WE ARE NOT....

Why all this crap about collecting evidence, and this and that and in the meantime wasting VALUABLE TIME in taking some concrete action...!!!! It`s The People, NOT ROBOTS, who are suffering the consequences... !!! Besides this has been going on for years now, you know...???

GonziPN... If you can`t manage anymore, and which CLEARLY seems to be the case..JUST QUIT and let others with fresher minds, manage this poor Island of ours.....

J Brincat

Nov 3rd 2009, 08:52

Do we have to wait for another 10 years for a possible solution?

Meanwhile, we continue to inhale the poisonous fumes.

laurence schembri

Nov 3rd 2009, 08:44

Ten years ago, a young Uni student aided by a Professor pointed out exactly where the black dust is coming from,
No, 5 turbine(boiler) at Marsa, when the report was presented to Francis Zammit Dimech he simply ignored it, sayimg that a foreign experts report was at hand at the cost of Lm6,500, yet none of us on the joint committee ever saw this document. I wonder why.

Paul Ciantar

Nov 3rd 2009, 08:42

grazzi mugliett. ta wied il ghajn ma nsejniekx.....btw it triq il gdida li qed issir issa progett tieghek kien

philip pace

Nov 2nd 2009, 21:47

This sort of a reply reminds me of some of the lyrics in the Beatles song, 'Nowhere Man'.

'He's as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see'.

There is no hurry in trying to solve this problem. Keep calm and take it easy. 31/2 years is a long time.

And then................

Or

Before then................

Enough said!

Bah!!!!

I M Dingli

Nov 2nd 2009, 21:39

Dr. Gonzi, we want action and not just words. I think we had our fair share of words for the past years on this particular subject. During summer you can't even stay bare footed in your own home otherwise you'll have to wash your feet constantly. This dust is everywhere.

Michael Spiteri

Nov 2nd 2009, 21:37

Quote from TOM - treated like a ping-bong ball.
Quote from us inferior citizens from the south - feel treated like pigs.

c.scerri

Nov 2nd 2009, 21:33

@ R Axisa and M. Zammit - those droplets might be honey bees' excrement that is released in flight - and I am not joking - this has been recorded and known and the size of the droplets seem to indicate so.

Galea. L

Nov 2nd 2009, 21:12

Don't rush. You might trip in your own feet.

Maria Zammit

Nov 2nd 2009, 21:07

When reported to the Health Authorities the person concerned was told to refer to MEPA. The usual ping pong.

I am no scientist but I would think the Health Authorities can tell what these yellow droplets are, if they're bird droppings, oil or from trees? Aren't the Health Authorities able to do a simple test to establish what these droplets are? I get the impression that all the Health Authorities do is referred one to someone else!!!

Tony Abela

Nov 2nd 2009, 21:00

Dear Mr PM,

Can you or your experts at MEPA tell us why the MEPA Air Monitoring Station at Zejtun had detected a peaks of Sulphur Dioxide, SO2, which is produced by the Burning of Fossil Fuels as used by our Power Stations on these dates and time, when it correlates with Peaks of PM10 and PM2.5 Dust particles?

The time of these peaks during October 2009 were as follows:

19th October 2009 between 0700hrs and 1300hrs
23rd October 2009 between 0600hrs and 1200hrs
29th October 2009 between 1900 hrs and 2100hrs
30th October 2009 between 070hrs and 1300hrs.

These were not the only instances but to make it simple for your experts I identified the highest peaks during the month of October.

While at it, they might also justify why the Zejtun Air Monitoring Unit did not give and on-line data between 1600hrs of the 7th October till 1600hrs on the 16th of October.

R Axisa

Nov 2nd 2009, 20:51

@Maria Zammit I have been having these 5mm yellow droplets for years now! And it was always a mystery from where these are coming. Another mystery unsolved. And by the way, I'm not talking about the Balzan area, it's M'xlokk / Zejtun area.

Maria Zammit

Nov 2nd 2009, 20:39

Has anyone notice bright yellow droplets in the Balzan area? These 5mm in diameter droplets were noticed on glass panes and washing put out to dry. Can anyone else confirm noticing these droplets and what are they please?

Peter Bonnici

Nov 2nd 2009, 20:37

Tghaggel xejn.

Manuel Micallef

Nov 2nd 2009, 20:34

To note one interesting point on this one:- The question was tabled by Jesmond Mugliet - from the PN backbenchers and PM had to interviene himself.... Quo Vadis PN?!!!! why don't they call it a day!!

Vincent Calleja

Nov 2nd 2009, 20:24

This black soot has now been with us as long as the PN has been in office. So the Government has had more than ample time to study the issue and come out with a solution. Unfortunately it is a fact that it is in the PN's very nature to prejudiciously IGNORE the people living in the south. This is proven by the undeniable fact that over the years it has continuously bombarded them with all the filthy and unhealthy industries they could think of to make their lives as miserable as possible. That's Christian Democracy for you. Is there any PN stalwart who can deny this?!