Outage caused by Boiler 7 fault at Marsa - power restored to all localities

Joseph Galea

Mar 23rd 2010, 18:21

@M Cassar, well done! when are we (as maltese people) going to learn to STOP INVENTING EXCUSES for every single incompetence that happen in this country.

I came to the conclusion that many people in this country have an IQ of a headless chicken. When a political party say A, its followers say A, when the party say B, the followers say B.

People, think for a moment and wake up, we must stop "LYING TO OURSELVES" and make it sound as if everything is perfect simply to excuses the incompetence of others - regardless of what party is governing.

If someone is incompetent WE must SAY that he is Incopetent, nothing more, nothing less.

The truth is that we are being skinned alive with high electricity bills and taxes, and for what? for an unreliable service. And guess where all our hard earned money is going? Its no secret where its going, and its not going to improve the service obviously.

J Brincat

Mar 23rd 2010, 12:58

@ Muscat. Pat.

So you ask 'Where has our money gone?'

This is the million dollar question.

Perhaps you guess is as good as mine!

r.camilleri

Mar 23rd 2010, 11:00

why is everone nagging and moaning? look at the bright side..........we won't have to pay for a half day of electricity. with the electricity bill hikes, we should be happy when the bulbs go out!
so lets celebrate!

Muscat. Pat

Mar 23rd 2010, 10:34

PN apologists never give up! Come on shower on us more excuses. 6 billion of of euro debt and still without a steady supply of electricity. Where has all our money gone? Where is the beef?

Joseph Bonello

Mar 23rd 2010, 09:47

To James Vella
We've been through worse way back in the 70s man!!

Joseph Ciantar

Mar 23rd 2010, 09:47

Adding insult to injury: now that consumers pay astronomical charges, the service deteriorates by so many and lengthy power-cuts. Is it within the consumers' protection rights to insist for a pro-rata reduction in bills computing the lost hours of service. As things are consumers are paying for an inaccessible service during power failures.

Peter Bonnici

Mar 23rd 2010, 08:57

@ S Coleiro. Go ahead, its safe enough for you to go along with wife and kids nowadays.

J Brincat

Mar 23rd 2010, 08:50

At least this time round the minister was man enough to admit that the power failure cames as a result of a technical fault and not like the outgoing Enemalta chairman did last November when he blamed the total darknesse on foul play.

Has the result of the police investigations ever came to light or are they gathering dust in some drawer?

M Cassar

Mar 23rd 2010, 08:41

Joseph Azzopardi this is 2010 ..stop talking about 1980s I've had enough of your cheap excuses for Pn...I want resignations! Refund for the people, after all they will start taking legal action and arresting whoever don't pay the bill. I've had enough of your incompetent party we pay 3 times european pay without any chance for compensation for damage done to our equipment. Is this accountability. With brainwashed fools like you always mentioning 30 years ago to justify what happened how can this country move forward. I SIMPLY do NOT care what happened in the past, I care about the present and the future, your incompetent leader is a farce. Just admit it!

richard Galea

Mar 23rd 2010, 08:38

Yesterday I took the opportunity to have a heart to heart talk with my loved ones......no TV no music no computer.............what a luxury.....to rediscover your own self.

JGambin

Mar 23rd 2010, 08:27

Comparing 2010 to the 1970-80s is like comparing the 70s to the 1930 s- so shoud we get comfort now that the electricity fails only every few months- fo a number of hours. I dont blame people for moaning when it affects their business- with lost sales- which cannot be recovered. What i cannot stand is the boasting- when we say we now have the latest technology - best infrastructure etc etc - when our electricity supply is what it is and our roads still built & maintained amateurishly . Of course its better than 30 years ago- God help us if it wasnt - but which European country did not improve in 30 years.

J Farrugia

Mar 23rd 2010, 08:26

carmel Cilia - dont worry priomises are promises and PN always keeps its promises with the people.. The Marsa Power station will be shut down as promised. The people of Marsa were promised that coal (cancer) used by Labour Governments for this power station will be removed once and for all. It costed the taxpayers gold. but a promise is a promise with a nationalilst government. And rest assured Carmel Cilia, that the Marsa Power station will be phased out, even with the spokes in the wheels the MLP is throwing in the road to the building of a new power plant in Delimara to offset the one at Marsa. So keep your eyes open and your mouth shut.

Joe E Galea

Mar 23rd 2010, 08:24

@Joseph Azzopardi: Your argument is as old as the power station. In the 80's the technology was not as advanced as today. After 25 years of GonziPN and pompous supposed investments, we still have these problems. If you compare today with 30 years ago, then you are stuck in the past ,like your government old and outdated. 30 years ago we didn't have computers and now we do, does it mean that it was the government of the 80's fault? Admit it that after all these years under GOnziPn we are paying for the corruption and inefficiencies accumulated throughout these years.

Carmel Dimech

Mar 23rd 2010, 08:03

Back to the 80s the difference the electricity prices are much higher.

H Dempster

Mar 23rd 2010, 08:03

After four and a half hour without electricity, are we going to recieve a refund on the cost of the meter rent for loss of use? After all it no longer comes cheap.

david mallia

Mar 23rd 2010, 07:38

If serious initiatives were taken vis-a-vis solar energy in the past, such problems would not exist on the scale they do now. I remember the Austrian government setting up a solar energy research station in Marsaxlokk in the late seventies. Why was this initiative not followed up and expanded. Germany, which is not so sunny country, is way ahead of Malta in photo-voltaic power generation. Unfortunately our politicians are very short sighted and have no vision for our future sustainability. Resources, whether water, energy or just open spaces and clean seas, will be crucially important in the near future. Politicians , please get a reality check and plan ahead.

Raymond Porter

Mar 23rd 2010, 07:27

It was a wonderful in Sliema..looking down from the balcony,looking on all those people in pitch darkness walking along with only the light of their mobile or a torch to show them the way..so romantic..more like this please.

S Coleiro

Mar 23rd 2010, 07:21

Yesterday no electricity till 8.30 pm.....today no water in kitchen tap...time to march to Castille as we used to do in the past...bring out the buckets

Carmel Cilia

Mar 23rd 2010, 07:02

Twenty years ago when the Eddie Fenech Adami new power station was built at Delimara we were promised that the marsa power station would then be phased out. So much for the P.N. promises. If today it wereent for this old power station Malta would be without electricity. To add insult to injury the Delimary power station we were told by Mr. Fenech is still not paid for. We still have according to him to pay someting to the tune of 200 million Euros. That is how these people are ruling these islands. Howqever they still have the guts to keep promising us this and that. Nobody today believe a word of what they say but like idiots they still brag on and on.
However in Maltese we say illum il warrani mikxuf berah and when the prime minister repeats at nausia that in Malta everything is on track he is just kidding himself nobody else. By the way last sunday he said that the wages in Malta are the best in Europe, Mater Dei is the best hospital in Europe in one word Malta is the best in Europe. Then surely Europe must be the worst in the world.

L Tabne

Mar 23rd 2010, 06:38

@Robert Cachia

So you are saying that every household should be prepared, like your dad, and buy a generator??? Why should we we when we are supposed to be provided the service from enemalta?? Blackouts may be a common occurance but they should not be a normal occurancel. I have better things to spend my money on then a generator.

Joseph Azzopardi

Mar 23rd 2010, 03:22

M Cassar
While waiting in this 3rd world country in all but name for the electricity to come I dedicate this sonnet to the Pn.

Candles and scandals,
an environment in shambles,
Heartless greed,
with those in need, etc.. etc.. ect..


Dear M.Cassar Can you please tell us where you were living in the period of time before 1987???? when we used to have power failure day in and day out. This is not to mention shortage of water with bowsers running all over the Island.. Shortage of all the commodities that we all are used to have today which we would not have dreamt to have then. I am sure you do have such things today too Mr.Cassar.. If today Malta is a 3rd World county, tell me what would you have called it then, if you were around that is Mr.M.Cassar. I suggest you to dedicate the sonnet you wrote above to whoever was running the country then. This goes also for all the others writing negative comments here, who lived during that ERA. They should freshen their memories a bit!!! As for the younger generation. They should consider themselves lucky not to have lived during that time..

raymond cutajar

Mar 23rd 2010, 02:45

INCIDENTS do happen PREVENTABILE INCIDENTS should Not Be Allowed To Happen
Shame on You Who is responsabile
Work Practices Standards should begin Before a and finish never finish aqs

E Frendo

Mar 23rd 2010, 00:53

A nation of moaners! That's what we are. So what? A fault happened, and it was restored back to normal after 4 hours. That's what I call efficiency and good work. At least it does not happen every night like the bad old days

Arthur Smith, Surrey, UK

Mar 23rd 2010, 00:22

So there you are: Yet another Maltese national black out!
Just like I predicted...

And how could anybody expect any different when you leave the power station in the hands of an accountant! There's a clearly insufficient appreciation within the administration for the need for preventive maintenance. One cannot make silk purse from a sow's ear!

These blackouts will also become ever more frequent and extensive as Malta's education system continues to lower its standards, thereby weakening the Maltese nation's engineering base. You are gradually becoming incapable of guaranteeing an adequate preventive-maintenance cycle and reliability programme. You are becoming incapable of operating the most basic support systems of the country.

In one short phrase: "You are going the way of the dodo!"

I shudder to think at what will happen when the first mass-produced "engineers" start to roll out from the MCAST conveyor belt! That's the BOTTOM LINE!!

Good luck MALTA!

D.Bartolo

Mar 23rd 2010, 00:20

Make Marsa Power Station , a musuem of industrial and economic history and the PN Government, a museum of inability and insensivtiy. The last word, the Minister had always came and try to ease our minds, about what???, with his Government in power, lot of promises and nothing be done. Good night and hope that Malta last evening had enjoyed a wonderful candle light dinner.

J Martinelli

Mar 23rd 2010, 00:13

@ Joseph E Briffa

Well said Mr. Briffa but you are forgetting that the GWU are pawns under the command of the LP who is doing everything in its power to disrupt and delay the extension of the Delimara station. Why? It's because they did not build it during their administration lasting 16 years.

@ Emmanuel Marmara' and the wannabee poets

Re: Gonzipn being 'old' - Maltese saying: Kliem ix-xih, zomm fih. Il-pinnur (Joseph & LP) idur ma kull rih. Kliem vojt u fatti xejn.

@ M Cassar

What a wasted talent! How about another string of rhymes about "Sour grapes"?
Third world government is one which left the country with rusted out water pipes and brown water flowing (infrequently) from the kitchen taps and water tankers going from street to street distributing 'rationed' water and tourists protesting in front of hotels which could not provide them with showers in the middle of a scorching summer. That's third world - not a four hour power cut and with an opposition hell bent on interfering with the enlargement of the Delimara station!

Go write something, taht il-lampa tal-pitrolju.

apgrech

Mar 23rd 2010, 00:12

@ Rachel Ferry - Rachel, we the northerners are privileged people, that's why!!!

s.sammut

Mar 23rd 2010, 00:02

@RACHEL FERRY
the answer is that north gets the elec.last cos gonzipn only cares about the businesses in sliema/st julians area !!!!they always be the first to have the electricity back shops in the north had to close with tourist moaning that malta is not reccomanded for a holiday !!!!!

Harold Davies

Mar 22nd 2010, 23:59

This is yet again for the umpteenth time a very sad state of affairs for Malta and Gozo, we are ex-pats and just about had it with this incompetence and amateurish way of running YOUR country, Back home we see large posters advertising for the tourists saying :Spend your holidays in care free Malta, the only think it don't mention is that one must pack a torch and a few batteries to see their way around the islands, as for us we just about had enought so we off to see the wild west show back home. Tally Ho Joe Joe.

malcolm mallia

Mar 22nd 2010, 23:48

Product malta at its best!!

no wonder the type of tourist that comes to malta has changed so much over the past years,

Prof P. Sant cassia

Mar 22nd 2010, 23:46

Well, we are paying European Electricity rates for our energy, but getting a sub-Saharan African Service. It is scandalous and unacceptable that our "Enemalta" cannot supply us with an uninterrupted supply - and never will.

Eric Camilleri

Mar 22nd 2010, 22:53

Enemalta - Thank you.
Thank you for my having to close my shop at 4.10pm with the obvious consequence of loss of business. The unexpected blackout also generated a huge traffic jam in Marsa by which time over an hour and a half later I managed to arrive home in Mosta, obviously to find my family in pitch darkness too and we stayed that way for a a whole 4 hours. I now want to see if ARMS will be chasing me for an on time settlement of my water and electricity bills. To all the wise guys suggesting that I should have invested in a generator you can just imagine my answer.

Timothy Cachia

Mar 22nd 2010, 22:49

This is what happens when a power station is over worked and is WAYYYYYY past it's life expectancy. If the enemalta wants us to pay such high rates with a blasted interest rate... at least have the decency of providing an adequate service to your clients!!!

Philip Hili

Mar 22nd 2010, 22:39

Ara veru li z-zmien inessi!!!
Insejtu meta l-qtugh tad-dawl u l-ilma kienu "the order of the day"???????

D Cardona

Mar 22nd 2010, 22:38

the question is ......... when is Boiler 7 gonna be fixed ?

ray mi callef

Mar 22nd 2010, 22:27

its just not good enough is it.with the last increase of the tariffs with no justification whatsoever the least one expects is a reliable service.i run a catering establishment in qawra and power came back on after 9 oclock.5 hours with no power .our trade can do without such disruptions ,everybody in our trade knows we ve had the worst business possible this winter.so no more lame apologies by this or that minister. anywhere in the eu whoever is responsible of running such a company as enemalta takes full responsibility more so when such company is the only service provider on our island. one last thing , with the new bills if one defaults on or effects a late payment you are either cut off or charged interest.who is going to compensate us for lost business.

s.grech

Mar 22nd 2010, 22:17

Third world country lead by Gonzipn

Neil Payne

Mar 22nd 2010, 22:07

i came home to no electric..... o well, thought i better get a takeaway tonight instead as i can't cook, but then i remembered i just paid a 500 euro bil for water and electric and have no spare cash until payday!

M. POrtelli

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:59

Question : Why is the north ALWAYS the last area to get our power back?
Answer : Becouse at least we at the south need electricty and you of the north need better enviorment and more investment in your area.

A Psaila

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:57

To my knowledge the Marsa/Delimara system was designed to be co-ordinated and thus the shut down of one boiler would not mean a total power cut. To say that Marsa and Delimara were shut down to avoid overload is not true. Have you ever heared of 'LOAD SHEDDING' ? In theory Delimara (to say the least) should have continued buisness as usual with the gas turbines topping up the power.

Andrew Paris

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:56

The 80's are in people. Enmalta is contributing to the style of the times.

J. Schembri

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:50

How are we going to deal with these outages? Link Malta to the European Grid and extend the delimara power station. One cannot expect an old car not to stop , Marsa power station is not like an old car it's more like a vintage car.
Please let's be realistic , with the subsidised bills , we were taking financial aid from the power production instead of contributing for its replacement.
Hopefully we get the smart meters and off peak tariffs introduced. This measure will redistribute the power demand more evenly.

Peter Shaw

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:49

It was quite romantic eating by candlelight. Also I saved on electricity too :)

Fenech M D

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:49

Let's look at the bright side of life ppl

Iffrankajna ftit mill-kont tad-dawl u l-ilma!

Ara qed niccajta...... tiblawniex!

mario v. gauci

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:47

And what about the confusion and traffic jams we had on the roads, I passed through two junctions which are normally controlled by traffic lights, that at the Mriehel bypass and Attard leading to San Anton; it was a free for all and confusion everywhere. Why is it that traffic police and wardens were nowhere to be seen? They should have been out in force to control and direct traffic.

J cassar

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:45

Madwar 20 sena ilu konna nigu imbezza li jekk me tinbeniex power station ohra (Jigifieri dik ta Dellimara) konna sa naffacjaw problemi kbar. Illum ergaja ghat tielet darba fi ftit xhur kien hemm hsara fil-power station tal-marsa..... u malta kollha bla dawl. Veru dal gvern kull ma jwieghed iwettqu!!!!.

Haga ohra, ta min jinnota hi li dan il-qtuh ta dawl li laqat lil malta kollha sehh minn meta splodew il-kontijiet tad-dawl....nahseb li bdawn il-kontijiet anke il-power station qed tispoldi.

james vella

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:37

what a joke this country is, embarrased to call myself maltese.

kenneth camilleri

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:34

the government seems very adamant with implying interest and fines for late payments in all gov entities which offer a service for a fee, the latest being enemalta not to mention the exhorbitant fees we are paying for an extremely mediocre service. Will enemalta be decent enough to compensate its customers for the inconveniance and loss of business its customers incurred. Malta 2010 .............LOL

victor pulis

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:32

JOSEPH, SPACE ALIENS ARE USUALLY FROM OUTER SPACE!!

Joseph Buhagiar

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:30

.... it should have lasted a bit longer :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z5UuGgf_ec

Michael Zerafa

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:29

Do you pay the diesel for it or dad does too???

I am a technician and normally technical faults are accounted for! Mr Minister, obviously the fault was without warning, had there been a warning and nothing was done about it, I won't think anyone would own up would it? Yes of course we can use Delimara power station, at what efficiency?

SO much for being old... apparently the old rut has to make up for the 'new one' ? Will a 'state of the art turbine replace this too?

d.attard

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:24

I am presently entertaining friends who are on the second day into their first visit to Malta after years of my promting to visit our island.

The minister's statement makes it sound as if power-cuts are a normal and regular feature of life.

Well, guess what? They are not. They are too frequent an occurence and we need to understand the bottom line.

M. Mizzi

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:12

another - Gonzipn No Foresight Saga to the detriment of the Maltese tax-payer and yes, the Maltese Electorate .

Joseph E Briffa

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:10

Grumbling and moaning doesn't get us anywhere and for heaven's sake the less industrial actions at Enemalta the better for the WHOLE country. Of course the Marsa Plant is old; it was old a generation ago when we refurbished used equipment. . So what can you expect from an old plant? Like an ailing being, it needs more attention; it can't affrord to have workers on partial strikes. Doesn't the GWU appreciate that partial strikes are harmful to the economy especially in such sensitive places as Power Plants? Is it a responsible behaviour to risk power cuts by calling partial strikes at an old Plant which incidentally is the sole energy provider? The GWU should act responsibly and leave Enemalta be. It has more than enough problems and we can't afford to complicate matters by calling strikes. The dockyard was ruined by the union's insistence on getting allowances for the workers which the yard could not afford; and we all have seen the results. Malta can do without the dockyard, but not without power plants. So please let Enemalta soldier on, and let's have the Delimara extension on stream asap + the connection to the EU grid.

Muscat Pat

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:04

The only thing that GonziPN is good at is dishing out empty slogans, murmering excuses, and blaming everyone......except himself!

Rachel Ferry

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:02

Why is the north ALWAYS the last area to get our power back?

Emmanuel Marmara'

Mar 22nd 2010, 21:00

YES THE POWER STATION IS OLD ........Mr..FENECH'S IDEAS ARE OLD...... EXCUSES ARE OLD ......

AND SO IS THE WHOLE GONZIPN...
I WONDER IF IT WAS Dr.GONZI's...AND Mr. FENECH'S PLACES THAT were the FIRST to HAVE electricity back to normal ???????????????????????????????????

Joseph Aquilina

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:59

What was it this time? space aliens from outer space...

M Cassar

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:54

While waiting in this 3rd world country in all but name for the electricity to come I dedicate this sonnet to the Pn.

Candles and scandals,
an environment in shambles,
Heartless greed,
with those in need,
Unaccoutanble misdeed.
An endless inflation,
the wreck of a nation,
a macabre deceit,
a government without receipt,
an annulity, a cheat.
Persistent ravings,
Stolen savings,
a constant barrage
of a delusional mirage.

J Vella

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:52

Some radio stations have been stating that the last nationwide powercut to be suffered was last June'09 - this is wrong the last nationwide powercut was suffered last November - see: http://enemalta.com.mt/page.asp?n=newsdetailssearch&i=1725

victor vella

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:52

I Galea: are you in a union? if yes why isnt your union fighting for your rights? I am not a union member and I got a raise last week due to the increase in cpst of fuel and electricity.
Jason Attard: Thank those who are hindering the goverment with senseless accusations about the new power station my friend.Jien hawn ghandi eletriku.
IG : Check wuth your insurers my friend, a good insurance would pay you the money for that for sure.

D.Galea

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:52

Apology accepted, but will something be done to deal with this once and for all!? True apology also means to take those necessary actions to remedy the situation otherwise such apology is useless, this does by no means Enemalta's workers aren't appreciated for their efforts.

Marius Zulgis

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:49

We must be the only population in the world who is on first-name terms with it's power station boilers.

maria balzan

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:48

this is the second power cut which the people who live in the south were faced with.. the power station of marsa needs to be replaced as quickly as possible with an other power station which is more efficient. It is interesting to note that the power station in marsa is only 5% efficient !!! no wonder why it is giving the workers alot of trouble .

maria balzan

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:47

this is the second power cut which the people who live in the south were faced with.. the power station of marsa needs to be replaced as quickly as possible with an other power station which is more efficient. It is interesting to note that the power station in marsa is only 5% efficient !!! no wonder why it is giving the workers alot of trouble .

Luke Scicluna

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:46

The government again makes a fool of the Maltese people... hekk jew hekk daqt April's Fool.

janet bayes

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:41

Isn't it time that enemalta started issuing candles and matches, free of charge, for when (not if) these cuts happen. I wonder how much food has gone to waste, how many businesses have lost money, and how many take aways were purchased tonight because of the inefficiency of one boiler??

Robert Cachia

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:36

Be prepared for the unexpected, long time ago my dad invested in a hefty generator that powers the whole house without any problems. Infact today's power cut did not create any hitch regarding electrical power to the house. Infact for us the said power cut did not affect us in any way.

Anthony Mizzi

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:36

A true State ( the whole of Malta ) of the art Power Outage or Cut or whatever one deems to call it.... Apology for all inconvenience caused and said it was a fact that Marsa power station was old not accepted, since the Maltese electorate was promised otherwise some three or four general elections ago. How long does a Nationalist administration phasing out take? It sarted in the last century and we are already 10 years in a new century. Most likely it will turn out to be another Saga...... .

leo attard

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:35

Mr.Fenech, we get an apology for enemalta's inefficiency and how it negatively effects us.... so if we are unable to pay the heavy-duty utility bills on time would it be okay if we just give you an apology instead of the 6% fine?

Jos Vella

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:24

Dear Minister, has there ever been any foul play in the last power outage? At least that was the rumor. If there was no foul play, what shall we (Maltese population) expect during summer time? serrhilna rasna!!

Robert Agius

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:09

Most of the country powerless.... what percentage???? this is last weeks article on power emissions... http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100311/local/power-station-emissions-just-below-eu-ceiling Can someone explain? Things just don't add up.

J Mizzi

Mar 22nd 2010, 20:06

"He said the fault was thought to have been technical and there was no foul play." Of course, there is no Parliamentary debate on the Budget Estimates, and tonight Bondi+ is discussing abortion and not the Enemalta success story!

Ing John Pace

Mar 22nd 2010, 19:52

No 7 boiler has an output of 60 megawatts, which is a fifth of the total system load. When such a big unit fails the rest of the plant cannot cope and the whole system goes.
With the projected diesel engine plant each has an output of 17 megawatt and the loss of a unit is easily absorbed by the rest of the plant. This in addition to being more efficient and environmentally friendly.

IG

Mar 22nd 2010, 19:46

For those that are still without electricity.... can they claim defrosted food (which might need to be thrown away), rebate of 1 day's worth of rent?

Mariette Borg

Mar 22nd 2010, 19:43

Whats the excuse know Dr.Gonzi?! we're not paying enough?

Chris Spiteri

Mar 22nd 2010, 19:40

Its time that the Marsa Power Station becomes a museum!!!

Jason Attard

Mar 22nd 2010, 19:31

Marsa power station is old, Enemalta is old, the government makes no decisions. What is new Mr Fenech?

G. Fenech

Mar 22nd 2010, 19:21

"The minister also thanked the GWU for lifting industrial action that had been in place at Marsa power station." - Read as: people were sitting around twiddling thumbs, instead of keeping an eye out for possible faults. "The fault was sudden and without warning": Yes, because people were sitting around twiddling thumbs instead of keeping an eye out "He apologised for all inconvenience caused and said it was a fact that Marsa power station was old and the government was working to eventually be able to phase it out." Wow, the Marsa power station is old! I would have never come to that conclusion myself. Have these so called ministers got any credibility left at all??