Updated, adds Labour reaction - The Prime Minister should explain the link between Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi’s secret companies in Panama and the new gas power station, the Nationalist Party said in a statement.

Referring to a Times of Malta exclusive which yesterday revealed that Nexia BT were LNG plant advisors, the PN said the news was of the "utmost gravity." 

The news meant Nexia BT were, at the same time, consultants to the Office of the Prime Minister, consultants to Enemalta, an auditor of the private consortium building the power station and the body opening secret companies for senior government officials. This was asking for trouble and stank of corruption, the PN said.

The party said that Mr Schembri, the PM’s chief of staff, and Minister without Portfolio Konrad Mizzi were the minds behind the power station and were the two persons who, together with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, had promised the power station before the election.

In a reply, the Labour Party said the links that the PN was seeing only existed in its imagination. 

The PN and its leader Simon Busuttil could not get used to the fact that Enemalta had been turned around by this government, and instead of high tariffs and dependence on heavy fuel oil, the people were seeing reduced bills and would be seeing cleaner air, the PL said.  

Therefore, the only link which the people associated the government's energy policy with was lower bills, it said.