PL asks for results of due diligence on power station extension
The government should say whether due diligence has been carried out on submissions made by BWSC – the company which has won the tender for the extension of the power station, to Enemalta and the Contracts Department, Labour spokesman Charles Mangion said.
He asked for the publication of such investigations if these were carried out and who took the decision not to hold them if they were not.
In a statement, Dr Mangion said that in spite of the Auditor General’s report on the extension, which condemned the way the tender was awarded and made recommendations of how similar processes should be carried out, the government was still lost in the confusion it had been caught in.
It was now clear why the government had accepted not to publish the contract and why the company did not want it to be published in full.
The BWSC, Dr Mangion said, did not want the sub-contractors list to be known. Such a restriction created suspicions and it had now emerged that some of them were involved in serious cases of corruption.
BWSC kept this under wraps with a false declaration during the tendering process, Dr Mangion said.
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C.camilleri
Jun 14th 2010, 21:29
@ Martinelli
La Joseph u Mangion ghalik huma xorta ghax ta l-istess partit, allura il FROGA li ghamlet Dolores nisghtu inwahhlu f-Lawrence ghax ta l-istess partit. Mhux hekk?
Dejjem trid tirrispondi lil kullhadd fuq kollox donnok tifhem f'kollox, u tiddefendi lil PN donnhom igibuhulek shun.
Edward Mallia
Jun 14th 2010, 16:01
@J. Martinelli Just because the PL zealots are often incoherent and ill-informed, that does not make your comments much if any better than theirs. Given the scrappiness of our medical records, and the almost total absence of air quality measurements until very recently, claimed correlations or lack of them between Delimara output and 'hospital cases' are essentially worthless. There is some credible ancillary evidence: the well-established damage to buildings from SO2 attack from Marsa power station for instance, at a time when both Marsa and Delimara were both using 3% sulphur HFO. On the other hand, the conclusions of Minister Cassar that 'lung cancer incidence has been declining' set against claims by other doctors that incidence of lung cancer drops off with increasing distance from Marsa, or claims of high miscarriage rates among Marsa women simply add to the general confusion.
As you claim, the Delimara extension has a pollution abatement system. That does not cover the HFO sludge however. No PN zealot or indeed Minister has mentioned that. Nor has Minister Fenech responded to the charge that his 'immediate 30% rise in bills' is fraudulent.
Perhaps you could ask him about it.
C.camilleri
Jun 14th 2010, 13:28
John Debono
Bl-ghamad li ghandek , u bil-hegga bix- tikkritka dak kollu li jghid Joseph Muscat lanqas biss indunajt li dan l-artikolu kitbu Charles Mangion.
Qabel tpaccpac ta l-anqas aqra l-artiklu.
Joseph Cauchi
Jun 14th 2010, 13:26
The best thing the Government can do is just IGNORE the MLP as it is quite evident that the scope of the MLP is to obstruct and hinder the development of the new extension at Delimara.
This is CLEAR AS CRYSTAL!
JC.
Pat Hobson
Jun 14th 2010, 14:38
Another typical arrogant blinkered pn apologist verging on the dictatorial heresy!
lgalea
Jun 14th 2010, 15:30
Joseph Cauchi thank you for showing us how arrogant your Gonezi and his supporters have become Cauchi. We'll keep it in mind when we come to vote at election time.
John Debono
Jun 14th 2010, 13:17
Għadek ma qtajtx qalbek, Peppi Muscat? Ħallina ħa naħdmu għax bit-tpapiċ tiegħek diġa nħela ħafna ħin prezzjuż u qedgħin tard...forsi ma jkomplix jinqata aktar id-dawl u la rridu nagħalqu il-power station tal-Marsa. Ikkritika kemm trid imma ħalli t-triq għal progress, pls
Joseph Aquilina
Jun 14th 2010, 14:19
By any chance by "progress" do you mean more pollution and more hospital cases related to the subject?
J Martinelli
Jun 14th 2010, 15:10
jJoseph Aquilina, how many 'hospital cases' arose in the last 20 years from emissions from the Delimara power station? It has been burning HFO all the time and the extension will likewise burn the same fuel and with a more modern pollution abatement system than what's on the original plant.
The LP is happy with obstructing and delaying progress so that you will inhale worse emissions from the Marsa station, longer! Such a progressive and moderate Party!
@ C camilleri
Mela Mangion u Muscat mhux ta l-istess partit? Dan Mangion ta min jorbot fuqu ta. Mhux hu li kien bravu bizzejjed li nduna li id-DNA tan Nazzjonalisti differenti min dak tal-Laburisti? Anqas biss ma nduna li ghamlilna l-akbar kumpliment ghax ahna partitarji ta partit pozittiv, ta partit li ghandu vizjoni u partit li biddel Malta u gab impjiegi bl-eluf minajr ma kellu jimpiega xi 8000 lejlet xi elezzjoni! Al kuntrarju l-LP huwa partit negattiv, bla vizjoni u fuq kollox jghawweg il-verita. Partit tal-makku.
lgalea
Jun 14th 2010, 15:25
John Debono jekk it-triq tal-progress hija li minħabba l-arroganza ta' Gonezi jintuża l-HFO biex imarradna iktar milli marradtuna s'issa hekk le, grazzi imma ma rriduhiex. Irridu jintuża d-diesel jew gass mhux HFO.
c bartolo
Jun 14th 2010, 18:28
who is peppi muscat, may i ask?.... are you by any chance referring to the leader of the opposition?.... what would you say if i referred to the prime minister as wenzi gonzi?.... criticize all you want, but at least remain respectful.
lgalea
Jun 15th 2010, 09:57
J Martinelli Meta se tiġi toqgħod hawn u tibla l-arja ħażina li l-Gvernijiet Nazzjonalisti ta' Eddie Fenech Adami u Gonezi tiegħek għadhom ma xebgħux ibellgħu lill-poplu Malti u mhux tiddefendihom minn dal-bogħod kollu mill-Kanada? PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS AND COME LIVE HERE Martinelli before you defend your Gonezi.