Electricity rates set to rise significantly throughout Europe
Massive investment needed for alternative energy infrastructure
Electricity bills, already deemed “unaffordable” by 92 per cent of the Maltese, are set to continue rising significantly over the next 20 years, according to an internal EU document leaked by the Financial Times.
The document does not make any direct reference to Malta or any specific member state but analyses how the EU’s policy to meet climate change targets will affect energy rates.
According to the impact assessment, the European Commission’s internal studies for an EU energy policy covering the period up to 2050 indicate that energy prices in all member states will have to increase significantly for at least 20 years for both consumers and businesses if the EU is serious about achieving its climate goals.
The EU is aiming to cut emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, which will involve the use of a 20 per cent proportion of renewable energy sources in its energy mix by 2020.
According to the report, the most likely industrial hypothesis will be an explosion in wind energy in the EU, producing almost 50 per cent of its electricity by 2050 as opposed to the five per cent produced today.
Nonetheless, the report states that, whatever happens, electricity rates will sharply increase for a period of at least 20 years before slowing down towards 2050.
The reasons are twofold: member states will have to cover the cost of the massive investment required for a new energy infrastructure, such as building wind farms, and also cover the investment needed for maintaining existing installations that are being wound down before the expansion in green energies.
Of the five scenarios studied, the most costly is the massive use of wind and solar energy, which could lead to a doubling in electricity prices for individual households by 2050.
The least expensive option, which is not possible for Malta, is an increase in use of nuclear energy and technology for carbon capture and storage. This option will still mean an increase of no more than 43 per cent in prices over the same period, the report notes.
Officially, the Commission is saying it does not comment on leaked documents. However, sources said that the fact that Malta was still completely dependent on conventional electricity generation meant the island would have to invest much more than member states that were already quite advanced in producing cleaner energy. “Malta has to invest heavily in cleaner energy and this will come at a cost. Somebody will have to pay for the new infrastructure,” the sources said.
Malta has lower targets to reach until the end of this decade because it is departing from a much lower position. While, according to targets, the EU has to start producing 20 per cent of all its energy needs through renewable sources by 2020, Malta’s target has been set to 10 per cent.
Still, Malta has to invest hundreds of millions of euros over the next years to build at least three wind farms, two onshore and one offshore, and to link its electricity system to the European grid through a €200 million submarine cable that should be in place by 2013.
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi recently announced that Malta planned to install a natural gas link to Europe to fire its power station with a much cleaner natural resource. Such a pipeline is likely to cost hundreds of millions of euros.
At the moment, Malta’s two power stations, in Marsa and Delimara, use heavy fuel oil to generate electricity. Once the link with Sicily is in place, the Marsa plant will be shut down and decommissioned.
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Yosef Scerri
Oct 24th 2011, 22:11
so why are we investing in PV systems to add to the grid? is it not to save the enrgy from the powestation?
mmmmmmmm......... another gimic!
Alex Ellul
Oct 24th 2011, 21:59
http://icecap.us/index.php/go/they-said-it
>>Maurice Strong, senior advisor to Kofi Annan, U.N. Secretary-General who chaired the gigantic (40,000 participants) “U.N. Conference on Environment and Development” in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 , who was responsible for putting together the Kyoto Protocol with thousands of bureaucrats, diplomats, and politicians, stated: “We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse….isn’t it our job to bring that about”
Timothy Wirth, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Global Issues, seconded Strong’s statement: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.”
Richard Benedick, a deputy assistant secretary of state who headed policy divisions of the U.S. State Department, stated: “A global warming treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the [enhanced] greenhouse effect.”
Peter Menzies in the Calgary Herald, Christine Stewart, former Canadian Environment Minister for the Liberal Party of Canada, said in 1998 that “No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits”
Vaclav Klaus, President of the Czech Republic, visited Australia in July 2011. In referring to the ideological orientations of those individuals and organisations who have significant financial and other vested interests in propagating the ‘Doctrine’ of anthropogenic induced climate change, President Klaus said: “They want to change us, to change our behaviour, our way of life, our values and preferences, they want to restrict our freedom because they themselves believe they know what is good for us. They are not interested in climate. They misuse the climate in their goal to restrict our freedom. What is endangered is freedom, the climate is okay." After noting that today’s human-induced climate change alarmists are the ideological descendents of the zero and negative population growth advocates of the 1970s who erroneously forecast that human population pressures would lead to increases in global poverty and growing shortages in resources, President Klaus went on to add: “They hate us, the humans, they consider us selfish and sinful creatures who must be controlled by them. I used to live in a similar world - called communism - and I know that it led to the worst environmental damage the world has ever experienced.”
IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer in November 2010 admitted “one has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy.” Instead, climate change policy is about how “we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth...”<<<<
Any comments are superfluous, except maybe that this is the reason why we are suferring energy poverty and economic meltdown. We only need to sack our leftwing politicians from the world and their mainstream media controlled by anti-God left wing extremist journalists.
Alex Ellul
Oct 24th 2011, 21:50
Global Warming Myth Used by U.N. and Marxists to Wreck World Economies
http://icecap.us/images/uploads/GlobalWarmingMyth.pdf
The U.N. and the Marxists
The source of this hoax is important. Everyone should be aware that the
AGW hoax was initiated and nurtured by the corrupt politicians of the
United Nations, the same people who colluded with Saddam Hussein to
skim billions of dollars in their “Oil for Food” scheme! AGW is environmental
extremism. Dr. Tim Ball, the distinguished former climatology
professor at the University of Winnipeg, has stated it is “possibly the
greatest deception in human history.” The environmental extremists aim
to destroy the industry western civilization. Many of these green Nazis
are misanthropic fanatics. Man is bad . . . polar bears are good! Limit
the number of people on the Earth! They will not be satisfied until we
are all living in a hut, defecating in a bucket, and cooking our food on
our dried dung.
After the 1989 fall of the Soviet Union, the Marxists, socialists, and
anti–capitalists wackos were looking for a new way to reinvent themselves and find a new way to destroy America and western economies.
They found it in the evil U.N.’s contrived “man is destroying the planet
by burning fossil fuel religion.” This new religion of the socialists and
anti–consumerists oppose large corporations, global free trade, and economic
growth. They hate oil, coal, and gas companies.
Schembri Ray
Oct 24th 2011, 21:44
These Brussels people doesn't feel the pulse of the low class. They earn thousands. It's like us immagining that we have no water to drink. We can't immagine it. They are the same. They don't immagine that most of us can't afford it.
S. BONAVIA
Oct 25th 2011, 10:59
Thats why in the next EU election I do not vote,I do not want to be a member of this farce anymore and I want to show that I do not have any confidence in them at all,its better that the Govt.first increases our wages as that of our european friends before considering to make the bills higher.
Victor Vella
Oct 24th 2011, 21:37
Why worry?. Money no problem. Or if it is a problem to pay the bills go 100 years back and use the candles. That is why the Hypocrites of Malta took 600€16 a week so that they can get the bulk of wealth by using electricity as the privileged elites and with the 116c a week you cucc Malti spent them to buy peanuts like monkeys.
charles tabone
Oct 24th 2011, 18:46
Is this a pre-budget feeler that the Maltese citizens should heed? If Malta tows in line for any incraeses in the price of utilities that are al;ready exorbitant, then may I ask, how about getting ALL workers wages and pensions in line with those of workers in EU countries? Then we may be able to just cope.
Joe Spiteri
Oct 24th 2011, 18:11
Climate change is simply a money making scam to help industries make more money; new low emission cars, new low emission passenger planes, etc. etc.
Paul Smith
Oct 24th 2011, 21:05
Yeah Joe
Oil is infinite as well, lets keep burning it, it wont ever run out.
Sometime this decade, your going to have a very very serious problem. When you cant get your hands on enough oil for RO, you will realize how utterly silly your remarks are.
Dont say i didnt warn you
John M Grima
Oct 24th 2011, 16:04
So................What else is new??????????
Jimmy Magro
Oct 24th 2011, 14:45
I have seen this report n the Financial Times last week. The EU must be mad to impose new solutions in renewable energy when the experts know that this will mean an increase of 300 to 500 percent in electricity prices to the consumers. During the Open Days seminar I requested information on whether it is true that electricity from wind farms is 400 per cent more expensive than current production. First of you do not get straight answers; and secondly I found the answer in this Financial Times reprot that is quoting an internal EU report.
I have also seen a powerpoint presentation from the Chairman of EneMalta stating that electricity produced from the wind farms would be 4 times the current rates.
This is total madness.
When as the Tne Times report syays we have 70% of our population statng that they have a situation of energy-poverty, what would they say if energy prices would need to increase by four times.
I am midsing something.
How can Europe remain competitive with these energy costs. How do they expect to generate a growth rate of more than 7% per annum to create employment for our young generation that in many countries run at 25% of unemployment.
Besides CO2 we also need to live. We need to have a good lifestyle and hence the experts have to come out with something more creative then telling us this bullshit.
Why do oil companies have to make so much profits when they are extracting oil which should be considered as common resources. How come wind energy comes out to be so expensive when the wind is free. How come a wind turbine is so expensive? Somewhere the figures do not add up as otherwise the logic would say that renewable energy should be more competitive.
Experts please put your cards on the table in order to be convincing.
Jo Meli
Oct 24th 2011, 16:05
Mr Jimmy Magro is an ALARMIST, as ususal.
Such senario is unattenable in view of December 21st, 2012, after which, those who survive will be "Back to Stone Age" !
Alex Ellul
Oct 24th 2011, 21:29
Jimmy Magro, you have seen the light. It is all a scam perpetrated by the green/left politicians (also called watermelons) abetted by the energy giants such as ENRON, E.ON etc.
It goes like this:
Invent an enemy=CO2
Invent an army of windmills and glorified glass panels
Subsidise there prduction AND their purchase (Subsidies at start and end point of process)
Subsidies keep cost very high and PROFITS too
Convince the people that you are saving the planet
Tax the people to finance the subsidies
Cost of energy goes through the roof
Industry migrates to China
Economy implodes.
Enron runs with the money robbed from people
Politicians retire
Raise price of energy as much as possible
Paul Mallia
Oct 24th 2011, 14:22
Given the right approach anyone can lower his electricity (bill) consumption and this I say because I have seen it happen during this last two years (since when the electricity charges started plummeting).
I changed all bulbs to Low Consumption, and LED's where applicable and I took to fitting a timed operation for my geyser, although I installed a cheap Solar Water Heater (upon which I did not get any refund from Government as it was cheap and second hand) and this considering that for summer time I had to use fans rather than a/cs (albeit that on some hot days fans were not enough and there I used a/c).
But I still have to go further. I will expect that when I have enough money I will install a solar air conditioner as this cuts off at least 30-40% of the consumption of normal a/c and I will also try to install a solar panel array which will surely help out in getting some money back from government in the form of feed-in tariff.
But things take time and only if one starts one will reap what he sows. I suggest that wherever possible stick to the idea of buying AA+ washing machines and fridges (especially if one has to change) and then one will notice the difference.
This is how it works.
However the Government is still backward in offering assistance in terms of aiding those who are interested in installing Green Equipment. I feel that if more help is forthcoming we Maltese will be much more happy to install such equipment and this will surely change our pattern of consumption (hence total consumption by country levels) and this will surely prove fruitful.
Other solutions are (even requiring more investment) also plausible, such as linking one geographical area with another in terms of provision of solar energy. These possibilities exist overseas and have been implemented.
Then, and only at that time, one can change from the fuel energized cars to electric ones as well as those which charge free of charge owing to the existence of solar panels, and it goes on and on and on.
BUT the only and best solution should come from the Government. Help and assistance should be there freely available, and one should not become subdued to so much red-tape and this and the other (usually ending with having acceded to no help altogether which happened in my case) as this is the way to the future.
My ideas are free. Feel free to contact me on paul.mallia@hotmail.com
Jimmy Magro
Oct 24th 2011, 16:18
I agree with what you are saying.
But the issue is not only to lower consumption but why is the EU planning to increase energy costs by 400 and 500%.
This is nothing but madness.
F. Azzopardi
Oct 24th 2011, 13:55
Can somebody understand that we cannot take it any longer !!! If only we got a Eur 500/week rise too ....
Bill Khan
Oct 24th 2011, 13:24
The population of malta has not sigtnificantly gone up in the last 3 decades or so. We did manage with less energy. One radio stuck into the wall one fridge and not every houshold had a TV set. No washing machines or diswashers. No one had a computer. Life was simple. We talked among us on various issues, visited friends and families. We had lots of scooters and few cars. Buses sometimes not so regular were atleast there and we could get to places.
Today we are slave to the gadgets and consume energy by the bucket load in cool airconditioned rooms.
Only a small percentage coud now afford the high energy tariffs. The rest are made to struggle and suffer as all slaves must do. Lot more is yet to ocme. Under the European union.
Joanne Micallef
Oct 24th 2011, 12:47
In the mean time, maybe because we have plenty of money to throw away, we are investing heavily in yet another heavy fuel oil power station extention.
Frans van Avendonk
Oct 24th 2011, 11:55
In parallel you have to see the EU policy to make all buildings energy neutral in the near future! No energy use means therefore no(recurring) costs! It will take of course some investment from all to get to that. In the mean time one can still see buildings going up around us that do not even make a token attempt to use insulation etc to reduce energy need.
Mr Tim Ripard
Oct 24th 2011, 11:52
This is all due to the Greens panicking the world into believing that atomic energy has to be abandoned because of a once-in-a-thousand-years disaster (Fukushima). What they didn't tell us at the time is that 'clean' energy is extremely expensive. Their intentions may be good but Green politicians inevitably fail to state the whole truth.
In the meantime, can the PL please enlighten us with their energy policy?
Jonathan Scerri
Oct 24th 2011, 13:34
Dear Mr. Ripard,
I'm no more than 36 and in my lifetime I have already witness two disasters (Chernobyl and Fukushima). And if you argue that the first was in the hands of incompetent Russians, the second was manned by Japanese tech gurus.
The truth is that nuclear is only a transitional source of energy until we really learn to tap on renewables in a large scale and until we learn how to use energy efficiently.
Chris Vella
Oct 24th 2011, 11:41
And what if enemalta invests in solar panels on each home making one huge grid out of all buildings! Greener than that.
Gustav Svensson
Oct 24th 2011, 11:36
Tough times ahead. Soon reality will catch up with Malta. Banks will go down because of the real estate speculations. Property bubble will burst. Taxes need to go up. Gaming companies are getting local licenses meaning less tax paid in Malta. Smart city is a joke. Air Malta..Corrupt politicians..
W Cassar
Oct 24th 2011, 14:40
Gustav why dont you say something positive for once!
VV Bartolo
Oct 24th 2011, 11:24
mhux hekk!
and most of all this to make up for the "loan" we've pumped out to our dear neighbour Greece!!
Paul Mallia
Oct 24th 2011, 14:04
Who is using it to build solar energy plants and cut off from the older types of generation of electricity. Mela sew, ahna ntuhom biex jahdmu u ahna ma naghmlu u niehdu xejn minn dak li tajnihom.
Patrick Zahra
Oct 24th 2011, 10:53
And that is why Delimara's new Plant is a Giant step in the Wrong direction!!
Lawrence Fenech
Oct 24th 2011, 10:53
But not for the clique who pocketed Euro 500 a week extra from 2008.
Anthony Farrugia
Oct 24th 2011, 10:51
As John Maynard Keynes said " In the long run we are all dead" !
Mr Andrew Grech
Oct 24th 2011, 10:44
how about i bend over now and the powers governing this world may help themselves to whatever they want. I'm all for saving the world and the environment but the high cost for alternative energy does not make sense. I would imagine the increase in price of fuels to be because of the demand and the draining of reserves, but why not try to control the cost of new alternative energy technology? Wouldn't that be of more benefit to our environment since everybody would be able to afford it, or is it more a case where the higher powers are milking the cow until it collapses?
Maybe we should all stop using electricity for a while in protest, and water (yeah lets all stink) until energy companies rethink their position.
Christan Brincat
Oct 24th 2011, 10:42
Man made climate change is a scam first of all. All the data provided has been proven to have been tampered with.
"energy prices in all member states will have to increase significantly for at least 20 years for both consumers and businesses if the EU is serious about achieving its climate goals". This is nothing but energy slavery and they are admitting that they are the ones raising the prices of energy.
Charles Cremona
Oct 24th 2011, 10:41
Malta is further disadvantaged because it has a water shortage and has to make use of dissalination plants which use vast amounts of energy, this problem will get worse as bore holes run dry. We have to accept that there is no cheap options, as time goes by oil and gas will continue to go up in price and despite what any of the parties tell you in the end the consumer will have to pay.
V. Cauchi
Oct 24th 2011, 10:28
Geothermal energy, created by harnessing heat from a mere 3 km depth below ground level, is rarely spoken about in Malta, yet it could be developed on land (much like the Naxxar well in the 50s) and fits well in areas where deep fractures in the earth's crust allow the molten rock to surge close enough to the earth's surface to heat water underground. The heated water produces steam and hence electric power.
http://www.alternative-energy-news.info/technology/heating/
Given that Malta sits on a very geologically active area, with some four volcanoes to the NW in the Sicilian channel, spent volcanoes to the west and Etna to the north, it may be about time we have a report on this type of energy and its feasibility for the island.
After all, Piano gave us some good ideas about the energy we could get digging just a few metres down, let alone 3 km.
Paul Smith
Oct 24th 2011, 21:55
I think thats asking for trouble
have you seen the recent earthquakes in Blackpool UK all down to fracking
a. xuereb
Oct 24th 2011, 10:23
thats why they are going to give us workers4.66euro weekly pay rise. i knew it was to good to be true......more taxes, electricty bills & gas.....
Phil Humphries
Oct 24th 2011, 10:01
Doubtless the Government will see this as an opportunity to increase utility prices (again) in order to build a contingency fund from which to pay the large refunds that will be due when the EU declares dual pricing tariffs discriminatory and illegal.
How much would a pipeline to Libya cost ?
A Camilleri
Oct 24th 2011, 10:01
indierct tax once more!!
Tonio Bugeja
Oct 24th 2011, 09:44
apart from the sarcastic comments penned, we have really much to worry about!!!!!!
I think that expanding a power station to work with heavy fuel oil was already a non starter.
Submarine cables and gas piping!!!!! We are being led into a narrow alley.
why does the powers that be, not subsidise on a very large scale, UV panels and wind turbines? why does the government not put this kind of money in subsidies for the people? That would reduce the electricity consumption generated by heavy fuel oils and in the meantime make the power station`s expansion unnecessary. I favour much nuclear power. Nuclear power is very safe provided it is operated and maintained properly.
Gordon Farrugia
Oct 24th 2011, 09:37
@ Mark Galea - how cheeky - current administration 'money no problem' makes 4.5 BILLION of debt and passes the buck to the Labour administration to pay.
And lest we forget our current government promised us a maximum 25% flat income tax from the first few weeks after winning the election - what happened to that Mr Galea - how can you promise that to the people as a key promise and then renege on it just weeks after winning!? This government on this basis isn't even legitimate because it wouldn't have won without such a blatant promise.
Mark Galea
Oct 24th 2011, 10:27
Mela kull ma trid taghmel, mr Gordon Farrugia, hu li tistenna sal-elezzjoni li jmiss, u tivvota, u l-maggoranza tirbah. Dak l-importanti, li ssir elezzjoni libera, mhux bhal tal-81. U jitla min jafdah l-elettorat (ghalhekk l-MLP baqa l-art dawn l-ahhar 25 sena)
Gordon Farrugia
Oct 24th 2011, 12:16
ma nafx kemm hi elezzjoni libera din li twieghed genna fl-art qabel l-elezzjoni u mbaghad ezatt wara li tirbah kull weghda tisparixxi mar-rih. Dan QERQ u NGANN sfaccat Sur Galea bhal kampanja ta kontra d-divorzju ax l-argumenti li bdew iggibu kienu vera sfaccati.
Paul Camilleri
Oct 24th 2011, 09:33
Is this a preamble to higher electricity rates in the very near future???
Jurgen Farrugia
Oct 24th 2011, 09:27
And Mr.Joseph Muscat is pleading that he will decrease the electricity prices if he is in goverment.Come On Mr.Muscat please be down to earth where surely you're not and start talking some sense not thinking that us maltese are fools.What are you going to do?subsidy the oil prices so the multi billionare companies around the world will get richer and richer?Instead of investing in solar energy for the sake of us maltese and our children.Oh yeah and about Eco-Gozo,maybe the goverment did not achieve what was planned because of the financial crisis but against all odds,Gozo is still in the heart of this goverment and this was shown when 199 businesses where helped by the goverment through the financial crisis,something that nor you and your party never talked about,because it was to no advantage to you.The only thing that matters to Dr.Muscat the leader of the PL is to win the next election against all odds.
James McIntosh
Oct 24th 2011, 11:21
to win the next election at any cost is also the goal of PN, never forget that
Joe Calleja
Oct 24th 2011, 09:09
I fully agree with you Mr. Farrugia. And by the way: the nuclear option IS possible for Malta. We could use the European grid through the submarine cable from Sicily, to get it from France as Italy is already doing, until Italy iytself again goes nuclear, as the Italian government intends to. And it would be cheaper for us, as we won't have to bother to bulld our own nuclear facility. It certainly would be cheaper than gas, as experts have calculated.
Claire Busuttil
Oct 24th 2011, 09:02
tiskanta il pagi taghna qatt ma joghlew!
Malta ga hawn nies, li isoffru il kesha tad djar taghna fix xitwa, habba ir rata disgustanti tal eletriku u gas....RIGRESS......x disastru
David Farrugia
Oct 24th 2011, 08:49
“Malta has to invest heavily in cleaner energy and this will come at a cost. Somebody will have to pay for the new infrastructure,” the sources said.
How about I say "Screw the environment"?
Adrian Schembri
Oct 24th 2011, 08:54
Lol, int bis-serjeta'???
C Cassar
Oct 24th 2011, 08:59
@ David Farrugia: Your attitude is what has got countries such as Malta into the current situation of expensive energy. No long term planning of investment. You need to pay for theis shortsight over the next 20-30 years and there will be no escape for you. congratulations.
W Cassar
Oct 24th 2011, 10:02
We have been doing that for quite some time already!
David Farrugia
Oct 24th 2011, 12:48
I just posted a question from a different perspective. Taking for example countries like Denmark and FInland, they made huge leaps in the energy sector, however I am sure that their citizen's energy cost is not as high as in Malta, when comparing per capita income.
It is great to have the standards of these northern countries, however to obtain such standards, whoever who is going to pay for this? Does the common Joe Borg afford it?
C Cassar
Oct 24th 2011, 20:10
Energy will always cost more in a small country like Malta. There are fixed costs to the infrsastucure. On the other hand, hardly any energy is needed over the winter in Malta compared to Northern Europe wher ethe costs are huge. Talking about air-con during the summer is a falacy, it's rarely needed to avoid severe health problems unlike the freezing winter conditions in other parts of Europe.
Mark Galea
Oct 24th 2011, 08:48
Tinkwetawx nies ... ftit xhur ohra, u jekk il-PL jirbah l-elezzjoni, il-prezzijiet tad-DAWL u l-ILMA ser JORHSU SOSTANZJALMENT. Hekk weghdna l-leader, Joseph (emails) Muscat, u hekk ser jaghmel wara 2013.
AMEN.
A Spiteri
Oct 24th 2011, 08:55
Issa jorhsu sur galea ftit xhur ohra u jorhsu sew ta ftit gimghat qabel l elezzjoni, il coach jajd lil pm kif ghandu jroxx il bzar f'ghajnejn in nies bi biex jerga jirbah l elezzjoni u jien perswaz li inti wiehed min dawk li ha jahrquk hafna ghajnek
Carmel Xuereb
Oct 24th 2011, 09:50
U anke l-PN ilu jweghdna l-genna fl-art ghal dawn l-ahhar 20 sena, ara anke lili kien bghatli ittra ffirmata minn Dr. Fenech Adami li l-insib mhux se jispicca anzi kien se jizdied u balec hekk ghamel ghax halliena b'xiber imnieher. Hallina Sur Galea ghax lilna z-zghar u l-klassi tan-nofs fgajtuna. hemm bzon bidla fil-Gvern u l-iktar li nistghu nibqghu kif ahna, jekk ma nsibux xi hofra kbira bhal ma sabu fil-Grecja li ma nafux biha u jaf biha biss dak tal-par idejn sodi.
Aristide Galea
Oct 24th 2011, 10:01
Sur Mark Galea , Jiena wiehed min dawk li mhux qed ninkwieta , billi il-problema taghna ser tkun solvuta fil-budget li gej ghax aktarx li il-gvern tmissu il-kuxjenza u jaghtina zieda ta' €500 fil-gimgha sabiex inkunu nistghu inhallsu il-kontijiet .
Mark Galea
Oct 24th 2011, 10:32
Xi tridni nghidilkom sur Spiteri u sur Xuereb. L-elettorat kollox, u dawn l-ahhar 25 sena kellu hafna cansijiet jafda l-MLP, u ma tantx kien hemm rizultati kbar ghall-MLP.
L-IMPORTANTI li qed nghixu f'pajjiz liberu u DEMOKRATIKU, fejn tista tmur tivvota minghajr biza ta swat (per ezempju hu is-snin 80) jew vendikazzjonijiet. Mill-bqija jiddeciedi l-elettorat. Ovvjament jien naccetta dejjem ir-rizultat ta elezzjoni generali. Intom l-istess? Ghax qed ninnota li qiskom qatt ma accettajtu li l-PN imexxi l-pajjiz.
Mr R.E. Saliba
Oct 24th 2011, 08:32
"Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi recently announced that Malta planned to install a natural gas link to Europe to fire its power station with a much cleaner natural resource. Such a pipeline is likely to cost hundreds of millions of euros."
I'm a layman in these matters, but going for natural gas sounds like a complete waste of money in view of the fact that we're going to have to invest in Wind and Solar within the next 35 years. Which obviously sets me wondering WHO will benefit from having Natural Gas here... Correct me if I'm wrong...
Paul Portelli
Oct 24th 2011, 08:46
agree Mr Saliba.by this we are building our own grave.
Mr R.E. Saliba
Oct 24th 2011, 09:01
@ Paul Portelli
Indeed Mr. Portelli, yet I emphasise that this may be a grave for the majority but a bed of roses for a select few. I would dearly like to know who will benefit from such an obvious waste of money.