Updated: Delimara fault is symptomatic of government failure - PL
Sections of thr damaged turbine.
Adds government reaction - The Labour Party said this afternoon that the major damage to the Delimara power station extension, confirmed by the finance minister this morning, was symptomatic of the failure of the government's energy policy. (See http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121020/local/enemalta-to-refuse-partial-hand-over-of-power-station-extension.441849 )
The party noted that the damage was first revealed by Labour MP Joe Mizzi on Monday in parliament, when he also tabled pictures.
It hit out at the government for having selected BWSC to extend the Delimara station and for having chosen that type of plant.
It said Malta would now be in a situation where the power station extension, which has been paid for, will be idle, while Malta will depend on the Marsa power station, which was supposed to have been decommissioned.
In a reply, the government said that the fault was not related to type of plant chosen for Delimara. The damage, it said, had been caused to the turbine used in the combined cycle, the same technology used in the older part of the Delimara power station.
It said the new technology of the power station extension had performed substantially better than the contract conditions.
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joseph saliba
Oct 21st 2012, 09:25
You can see through, this is the era of transparency over here. From the beach; to remarrying; to church and parliament. How's that for progress? The PL lacks behind. Denuding his 'adversaries' while wearing a coat of silence. Why did hon. Vassallo shut up? Why did the hon. Coleiro Preca take such a hurried decision she regretted in such a short time? Why does the PL want to control the media?..
Charles Cremona
Oct 20th 2012, 20:33
i'm still trying to work this one out, how can Gonzi PN be blamed for a turbine failure in a power station, this is an engineering not a political problem. I think labour has gone a bit over the top ths time.
Eve Axiaq
Oct 21st 2012, 06:55
The political problem is meta l gvern kellu l-ghagla u hegga kbira ta full cash payment on delivery qabel ma bdew isiru t testijiet. Hawnhekk qed nitkellmu miljuni kbar. Issa jrid ibellaha lil poplu li jista jfittixhom ghad danni bhala attentat biex jigbru giehhom. Min ha l commissions mar sew.
Austin Gatt 30 mins to resign pls!
P Caruana
Oct 21st 2012, 09:21
@ Charles Cremona,
Are you being serious with your statement ?
The decision maker, is always to blame. who otherwise, the nation ?
This is like buying a car. if you go for a brand that is known to have problems, then its your fault.
The government persisted to go for BWSC for some reason or another !
Robert Mifsud
Oct 20th 2012, 20:09
I had hopes for a good political party alternative.... but PL is really really doing a e very bad job. Cross fingers for when they are in power!
P Caruana
Oct 21st 2012, 09:23
@ Robert Mifsud.
Can you please elaborate as your comment here is out of context in my opinion.
Why should one not vote PL because of a lousy government decision ?
Is it because PL and FD are speaking out for the majority of the population ?
Kieron O'connor
Oct 20th 2012, 19:50
In the time this has taken so far, you could have built several power stations...political/departmental interference in the process all along has dragged this out.
There has been numerous power stations successfully designed built and commissioned and online on grids all over the world in the same period.
God only knows what the overall cost to the tax payer and industry will be
A.f Ellul
Oct 20th 2012, 19:26
now is cofirmed that the old power staion is better then the new one.What I know is that the old one is helping the new power station,What will be the futur when the old power station is totally closed?used emercency lights or solar panels!!!!!!
K. Vella
Oct 20th 2012, 17:04
Labour Party = opportunistic as ever.....
As if the Government is glad about this incident....
Maybe Labour are happy to take us back with bottles and pans running after the bowsers in the streets....
Richard Caruana
Oct 20th 2012, 16:53
Go on and get a life! Everything that goes wrong is the end of the world with the MLP.
Seems they've forgotten the days and nights on end we had to do without electricity when they were in government. If they have forgotten, we haven't.
Jean Paul Micallef
Oct 20th 2012, 22:26
Marsa power station done by labour still working fully. intom brand new u bye bye. come one stay silent
Mr Joe Micallef
Oct 20th 2012, 16:44
MLP/PL is SYNONYMOUS with perennial failure!
Edward Mallia
Oct 20th 2012, 15:38
The choice of the type of plant made by Enemalta was a sensible one considering our type and size of grid and the short timescales available. The choice of fuel: HFO instead of gasoil: was more contentious, buttressed as it was by shakey arguments. The other equipment on offer was less attractive. The choice of contractor - BWSC - was another matter.
stephen koludrovic
Oct 20th 2012, 15:27
Mater Dei, Delimara power station, Smart city, and City gate project. All glorious expensive disasters.
Jay Oatmon
Oct 20th 2012, 15:42
Agreed, and what Malta needs desperately is a new extra large sized prison to get the suspended sentences off the streets and law and decent order back to Malta!
Joseph M. Saliba
Oct 20th 2012, 16:34
Thirty minutes to resign whoever is responsible.
Steve Mifsud
Oct 20th 2012, 18:45
Totaly agree with mr jay. been saying that to my family every time I hear on the news a suspended sentences is given to blatant criminals... And that seems to be happening every day at our law courts!!
Philip Camilleri
Oct 20th 2012, 20:52
Agree with you Jay, we should go one step further and build a prison in the desert in Libya and start a three strikes and youre out policy so that repeat offenders will be placed in this penitentiary. All criminals should be placed in chain gangs and made to work with their pay being given to their victims until the sum determined by the court would be payed.
Philip Camilleri
Oct 20th 2012, 20:55
A dna database would be set up and foreign criminals would serve their sentence and deported, if they return (dna check) they would be sent to 5 years sentence in libya desert peinentiary... these policies and similiar tough on crime ones would very quickly reduce crime levels. suspects must face the courts immediately and not as they do now many years later!
Francis Sammut
Oct 20th 2012, 15:09
Thanks also to minister Austin Gatt, Tonio Fenech and Mr. Mizzi ( the go between) who the government (especially Austin Gatt) bent over backwards to shield him from any outside scrutiny
francis x caruana
Oct 20th 2012, 14:53
thanks to gonzi pn the super man
Giov DeMartino
Oct 20th 2012, 15:43
Issa ahjar. Gonzi wehel li l-magna gratilha l-hsara. Veru l-kas li tghid Ahfrilhom sinjur!
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