Diesel in Malta was currently being sold at a price that was 30c higher than it was in September 2010 even though the international price of diesel today was equal to what it was then, the Opposition’s energy spokesman said today.

Speaking in Parliament, George Pullicino hit out at the government for having deceived the people before the general election.

The Labour Party had played to the people’s emotions and described the BWSC plant as a cancer factory, he said. Yet in an official document sent by the present government to the European Union last May, it spoke of a shift to cleaner energy by generating more of its electricity production precisely from the BWSC plant.

Mr Pullicino said the government had only managed to reduce the energy tariffs for domestic clients because, against thanks to the BWSC plant, it was saving €1 million per week.

Yet consumers were only being given a portion of the saving, costing €20m a year.