Tuesday, 3rd November 2009 - 10:17CET
Enemalta drafting plans to close Marsa power station
Enemalta has started preparing plans for the decommissioning of Marsa power station, which plans have to be agreed with Mepa, Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt has told Parliament.
"The government's plan is for the Marsa power station to be closed down at the end of 2012 when the interconnector with Sicily comes into operation," the minister told Opposition environment spokesman Leo Brincat in reply to a parliamentary question.
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Does yor beloved GonziPn over here on this part of the globe care what we inhale? It is ironic of a person like yourself living in Canada comment on issues in Malta!
Your words do not go down well with people who are suffering, especially those who know you are living in far off Canada. Two NP MPs are harping that there is a serious problem in the area, yet all the way from London Ontario you say oh its just another 2 years - so put up with it.
@D. Stellini - Two wrongs do not make a right!
What is with Minister Gatt and 2012 and these projects. First the Cirkewwa project then the Marsa station and now also the windfarm. Either he's sure the world will end in 2012 or else we are in for an election??
"The NP government may have exceeded budgets and delivered a little late, but it delivered nonetheless. "
'MAY have' ???
'a LITTLE late'???
Had they REALLY delivered, ON TIME, and WITHIN budget, we would not be in the mess that we are now in and our deficit would have been less than HALF of what it is now!
Keep on digging boy! The hole is getting ever deeper and you are persuading ever more rational floating voters towards Labour through your semantic convolutions. ;-)
You have been inhaling "god knows what" for fifty-eight years, what's another two years?
Remember that the oil-fired Marsa Power Station was converted to coal by the Socialist government which reigned between 1971 and 1987, and which was not the least concerned about what you breathed. Where were your protests and snide remarks then? Were you even born? The NP government reconverted to oil thus reducing emissions not to mention the multi-million euro scrubbers installed to further reduce airborne particles.
The NP government may have exceeded budgets and delivered a little late, but it delivered nonetheless. The (M)LP never had any workable plans, a vision for the future - just empty rhetoric which delivers zilch.
They prmoised years ago tha tonce the Delimara is in operation, Marsa would close.
Can the Times keep Dr Gatt by his promise of closing Marsa powerstation by 2012? at least we get this. Can Gatt assure us that if this deadline is not achieved, he will resign? Can He?