Now, we need some answers from Joseph Muscat
Yes, we need some answers from Joseph Muscat about whether he plans to go ahead with John Dalli’s Sargas proposal, given that the whole thing stinks and did so from the start.
Of course, Dalli is now free to accept commission on the multi-million-euro deal if he wants to and if Sargas want to pay him for pushing it to Labour, because he is no longer an EU Commissioner.
But he was pushing the deal even as an EU Commissioner, appearing on Super One to extol its benefits, and then it emerged – I believe I had pulled up an old interview, on this website – that Dalli had actually worked for Sargas before he became Commissioner, receiving fees for consultancy work.
Did Sargas continue to pay those fees to John Dalli & Associates, the company Dalli says he no longer has anything to do with because his daughters run it?
We have no clarity on that.
Watch this Super One News video and listen to the future prime minister extol the virtues of John Dalli’s miraculous, cost-cutting proposal.
If this is the way Labour planned to reduce the cost of water and electricity (are they crazy?), then it has just blown up in their faces. So what exactly is Plan B?
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Kif jghidu” Il-garra gejja u sejra fl-ahhar tinkiser”.
This was one of only two ‘proposals’ made by Joseph Muscat.
One was to follow the Cyprus way of running the economy.
The other was to get lumped with this olive-oil running floating power station.
Deafening silence.
Different issue. I heard on my local radio station this morning that the European trade unions have convoked a strike on November 14th to protest against the austerity measures. It then said “the Maltese trade unions have demonstrated willingness to contemplate this option”. They’re kidding, right?
We’re owed those answers.
Given that the issue, at EU startegic policy level, is whether coal mixed with a small percentage of food processing by-products is actually bio-mass, was Joseph prepared to risk a billion euros of public money?
Plants certified running on bio-mass recieve funding, although on condition that exhaust emissions would still have to undergo filtering.
Sargas propose converting the filtering equipment to make money out of emissions, a cost into an investment. Problem is the EU isn’t as impressed as our dear leader, to recogniose it as green technology, the consequence could be substantial, make that major, yearly fines.
Or was Joseph under assurance that our commissioner would have done his best to sort out these two minor details?
Is this the kind of decision maker we want?