PN deputy leader Mario de Marco presented an amendment to the motion on the Enemalta-Shanghai Electric agreement calling on the government to publish all relevant documents.

In his amendment, Dr de Marco indicated that the government had broken its promises to build a power station within two years and not to privatise Enemalta.

The amendment criticised the government for not publishing the Shanghai Electric deal and aspects of its announced details, particularly the transfer of all generation facilities.

Dr de Marco said the government, in criticising the PN administration about Enemalta, should have also admitted it had inherited a new and efficient BWSC power plant which was saving the country €50 million a year and which could be converted to gas, as well as the interconnector which offered an alternative source of power.

The former PN government, therefore, had made adequate provision for Malta’s energy demands – a far cry from the situation it found in 1987.

Dr de Marco also asked whether Shanghai Electric had actually acquired 33 per cent of Enemalta.

The government had said the money had been transferred, yet Malta Financial Services Authority documents he had downloaded yesterday afternoon still showed the Maltese government as the only shareholder.

Similarly, had Shanghai Electric actually taken over D3 (the BWSC plant)?

Again, there was nothing registered with the authority. Where was the subscription agreement?

Had the joint ventures International Renewable Energy Ltd and the International Energy Services Ltd been set up? There was nothing in the MFSA registry either in that regard.

Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi, winding up the debate, said the documents had been presented to the MFSA yesterday afternoon.