Ho ho ho (and that’s not the sound of Father Christmas)
Sargas CEO Henrik Fleischer is interviewed in The Sunday Times today.
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It all started with the Labour Party accusing Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi of ignoring the project that had been presented to him at least 18 months ago by Mr Fleischer, in what came to be known as the “John Dalli plan”.
For weeks people were left wondering what this plan to reduce electricity rates was and how EU Commissioner John Dalli featured in it.
Mr Fleischer explains that Mr Dalli is his friend. The two got to know each other a couple of years ago when the former Nationalist Party minister acted as a consultant to Mr Fleischer’s company Sargas.
This fact had emerged in a 2007 interview with The Sunday Times when Mr Dalli was presented as an adviser to Sargas. He gave up his consultancy work after being appointed EU Health Commissioner.
But how is Mr Dalli linked to the recent proposal?
“I had asked him to get us an appointment with the government to explain our idea and that is as far as his involvement in this project goes,” Mr Fleischer says.
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Did not Labour create some sort of rumpus re the BWSC contract not so so long ago about a similar sort of introduction/involvment?
Mystifying indeed.
It seems that Sargas has been touting this still-on-the-drawing-board project for some years now but there have been no takers as not one power station using olive-pits technology has been commissioned and built.
That’s why Sargas people have only pretty drawings to show and no photos, DVDs or even trips to operating power stations have been laid on.
By the way, Jesmond Mugliett was present at the Sargas presentation.
I know next to nothing about such things but if this Sargas option is so efficient, cheap and enviormentally friendly, how come several countries in the civilized and not-so-civilized world are not tripping over each others ankles to set up such a system?
When he was a guest on the television programme Inkontri, John Dalli spoke about the Sargas business deal but mentioned neither his personal friendship with their CEO nor his having been their consultant.
He gave the impression that he had no interest in the matter except to help the PN win the next election.
Dalli kept his involvement with Sargas hidden from the public. I wonder if he also forgot to mention it to the PM.
He didn’t hid it from the public. He gave comments to The Sunday Times in 2007. He’s kept quiet since then, though. Maybe he hoped we’d forget.
“I had asked him to get us an appointment with the government to explain our idea and that is as far as his involvement in this project goes,” Mr Fleischer says.
Mr. Dalli’s presence on Inkontri shows precisely that Mr. Dalli’s involvement went further than what Mr. Fleisher says.
In the meantime, Anglu Farrugia referred to it absent- mindedly as “il-progett ta’ John Dalli”.
What a bunch of dilettantes.
What I find totally astounding is that the ‘cunning, manipulative, fox’, Dalli, did not comprehend that his devious plot would be ferreted out and that he would be blown out of the water.
Greed works in mysterious ways.
“Idiots” you mean, Dee.
Let’s just assume that Sargas sells its concept to twenty countries. In no time the price of the fuels involved, wether they are olive pits, wood, garbage or coal will increase with their demand, and we will end up back at square one with a €900,000,000 Research & Development power plant which no one will want to buy, and which actually we never required.
Could it be that Dalli convinced Barroso and some other commissioner to approve EU funding for this pilot project in ‘Malta’? The sky seems to be the limit.
Sargas takes on Dalli as a consultant to get them an appointment with “government”.
The consultancy ends there.
Still, on the rekort, il-pjan ta’ Dalli is publicly announced on television by the future deputy PM two weeks ago.
Tell it to the marines Mr Fleischer.
So he played safe!
John Dalli spoke to the goverment and got a big ‘NO’….so he tries a sales pitch on the future government.
Can’t lose this opportunity, because the commission is too high.
A good commission for the Commissioner:
WARRAB DALLI! U ISTHI (JEKK TAF)!
““I had asked him to get us an appointment with the government to explain our idea and that is as far as his involvement in this project goes,” Mr Fleischer says.”
So Mr Dalli tries to do his “ex-clients” favours when they ask for them, eh? If they have the gall to ask for such favours, then he should be morally upright and said that no, especially in his position, these things are simply not done.
The problem is that people brought up/accustomed to the “pjaciri” culture simply do not know where the line should be drawn.
With the revelation of John Dalli’s involvement, the government should immediately order Enemalta to cease contact with Sargas and stop any ideas of investing in Sargas’ unproven plant.
This would ensure complete transparency and accountability the Labour Party harps about (only when it suits them).
They labeled the BWSC plant as a ‘prototype’ (which it isn’t) and yet they are all gun-ho about a plant which is still on the drawing board, has no track record and no takers so far
“Gvern immexxi minni” should dissociate himself from this scam forthwith.
That is unless he is already up to his neck in filth while still in opposition.
We shall wait and see.
Peter Pan Muscat was conned by Dalli.
Gurdien Xih Gonzi saw through him.
Daphne, Marlene H(eidi) Farrugia’s photo … what exactly is its relevance to this Sargas sordid affair?
[Daphne – She is Labour’s spokesman for utilities.]