It is not a question of credibility – ONE just reads (parrot like) the papers shoved under their noses. One News is not to blame. The coconuts that write their stuff are.

It’s also very cynical to state that nothing has been done regarding green energy on this island. It’s offensive to Mallia himself.

If research into wind energy proves financially impossible, will Labour accuse government of pouring money into ‘useless research’?

Because that seems to be the case here. When did Labour ever participate in this discussion except to hammer it into it’s kontijiet catcall?

It’s their approach which is wrong. Refusing the paradigm shift that comes with green energy. Something he personifies.

Only these days? Really? STARTING to come across as a grumpy and rather cynical man?

Edward Mallia IS an energy guru. He is also a cynical old man, which doesn’t go down well in this country of breezy optimism of zaghzagh ta’ success.

He has been on the receiving end of three decades of abuse from most quarters, so his grumpiness is well justified.

Remember that he was talking about carbon footprints and green energy back when Mintoff was still PM and Joseph Muscat was still in his nappies.

But Edward Mallia is above all brutally honest. He never got used to the Maltese ways of sucking up to your audience.

The least we could do is to stop using him as a pinup girl for political wrangling. Then we could give him a big shiny Gieh ir-Repubblika and yes, egad, make him president of the republic.

Seriously? I wonder how he could POSSIBLY have forgotten (shock, horror, snigger).

He couldn’t. There aren’t any. Not fixed-price certainly.

Edward Mallia is pouring scorn on everything and everybody these days and, while I respect his basic principles and his scientific knowledge, he’s starting to come across as a grumpy and rather cynical old man.