Chief technical officer did not mislead Mepa board - Enemalta

Enemalta Corporation this morning categorically denied that its chief technical officer attempted to mislead or provide misinformation to the board of the Malta Environment and Planning Authority.

According to the Auditor General’s report Enemalta's CTO mentioned the existence of a waste disposal contract for both the Marsa and Delimara power stations during a Mepa hearing even though two months earlier the company had informed the AG it was still negotiating with a foreign company involved in the recycling business.

Enemalta said this morning that when addressing the Mepa board its CTO stated that Enemalta had a contract to export flyash and bottomash from the existing plant at Marsa and Delimara.

The CTO made reference to the existing contract that Enemalta has for waste disposal. This, it said, was obviously interpreted wrongly as him referring to waste disposal from the new extension at Delimara.

“When addressing the Mepa board on the topic of waste disposal, the CTO stated that the board should be informed that Enemalta already had a contract with a company for the exportation of flyash from Marsa and bottomash from Delimara and Marsa.

“He further stated that this waste is very similar to the waste generated from the plant with regards to quality and composition, the difference being that there are no byproducts of sodium bicarbonate when it reacts with SO2,” Enemalta said.

It said that even though the CTO did not explicitly state that he was referring to the existing plant at Delimara, the fact that he mentioned that the composition of the waste from the existing plant was similar to the waste from the (new) plant, clearly indicated that he was referring to waste disposal from the existing Delimara and Marsa plant and not the new plant at Delimara.

“Hence, it is definitely unjust to interpret these comments as trying to mislead,” the corporation said.