Here’s the link :
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/travel/photo-of-the-week/#/gozo-malta-diving_27045_600x450.jpg

Marku , it seems National Geographic don’t have pictures to fill up their pages , so they stumbled on this picture of this dime a dozen Azure Window in Dwejra of which I’m very proud. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20101130/local/dwejra-s-beauty
La Redoute please read carefully before you write.

James Tyrell? Double standards? Surely not.

You mean “here is someone who vehemently opposed Malta’s membership of the EU and loudly and vociferously campaigned against it and now wants the EU to fund a tunnel so that he can get to and from Gozo in comfort, and hang the environmental impact if it means he can get something out of it.”

Not to put too fine a point on it, Ireland won’t be paying for this. Nor, I imagine, would James Tyrell himself.

@La Redoute “They could only do certain things only here, like spreading soil or sand on the marble floors of Verdala Castle. The clean up, fortunately was successful.”

The successful cleanup was of the marble floors of Verdala Castle where they just finished restoring the Cali` frescoes.

“Speaking for myself I actually like the idea of a bridge or tunnel. It doesn’t have to be an eyesore as someone said and high winds would only be a problem if the design hadn’t taken this into account. The main problem would be funding the thing and to that end approaches would have to be made initially to the EU for funding.”

What double standards! Here is someone who objects to anything which remotely affects ‘the environment’, failing to notice that a bridge across the channel would create havoc on the seabed during construction.

This is someone one who objected to the Hondoq Rummien development and the Gozo airstrip. He also, I believe, commented on the Dwejra “disaster”.

Double standards galore.

@ John Schembri

What eco-system? If I remember correctly, during the press conference Stevens from MEPA siad that the ecosystem on the site is the same as any eco-system anywhere else along the shoreline.

The eco-system which is specific to Dwejra is not on that site and therefore was not affected.

The site in question was included as a buffer to the more sensitive sites nearby – the sites which warranted designation as Natura 2000.

We are really scraping the bottom of the barrel when we start worrying that some fine particles of sand could not be removed from the rock pores – in a buffer zone. I always believed that nature can take good care of itself.

“The cleanup was successful”.

I quoted you there. Have you changed your mind?

[Daphne – His boss Saviour has a new wife and a baby on the way, but that hasn’t helped, has it. I thought it might, but it turns out it didn’t.]

It depends how one defines success! “The grave was successfully cleaned” is more appropriate.
How would one remove the fine particles of sand from the rock pores, or crevices? How would one revive the eco-system in the affected area?