The planned floating storage tanks at Delimara would create a “significant impact” on the character of the landscape and visual outlook of Marsaxlokk Bay that would be “difficult to eliminate”, according to Mepa’s environment protection unit.
It has therefore requested a detailed landscaping scheme including “camouflaging, design of structures and materials, colour treatments and textural finishes to aid integration with the surroundings and minimise the impacts”.
On the other hand there are no “significant concerns”, from a landscape and visual point of view, over the location of the planned gas power station in Delimara, according to the unit.
The Environment Protection Directorate was reacting to an environment impact assessment (EIA) report on the project.
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