I am no expert, just a concerned citizen. I am reacting to what two correspondents wrote, Alan Pulis (January 10) favouring the use of gas, and a professional from a renowned firm cautioning in the Business Times about making provision for some untoward event which might happen once, spaced every two centuries or more.
Decades ago one of the administrations had done away with road-buried gas pipes. A fortunate decision, for imagine a contractor doing some road works punching a hole in a buried gas pipe with workers or passers-by smoking away nearby? Who knows how many casualities would need to be rushed to hospital?
On the same lines I do have some apprehensions about piped gas from Sicily. What would the environmental damage be if, as happened a few years ago, a poorly insured tramp ship were to unintentionally (?) damage not the electricity cable between Malta and Gozo but this time a gas pipeline to nearby Sicily some distance from the shore or very near land?