You know, Jozef and Gahan, the things that’s been niggling me these last two years, and more so after Labour’s victory and the complete reversal of Malta’s energy policy, is the complete silence from the Demajo Group. I’d be mightily pissed off if the government spat all over my company’s achievement. Add to that the way the PN almost tried to hide away the project as if it wasn’t happening at all, and it’s no wonder this country is thick with conspiracy theories.

One thing’s for sure, the interconnector does not produce any fumes, fly ash or smoke and still the party in government wants to use a fraction of its load-carrying capacity.

Just imagine having an invisible power station the size of the one at Marsa (200Mw?) supplying electricity during the night for a very cheap price, without producing a cigarette puff.

One would ask, how could we utilise this electricity? We can produce water from our reverse osmosis plants during the night, blast-freezing would be viable, factories and hotels would welcome the night tariff and if we were offered the opportunity to use it we could afford to keep our air-conditioners on at home during the night.

But we ridiculed what the rest of the industrialised world has been practising for ages. That was thanks to Joseph Muscat and his (IT) engineer Minister Konrad Mizzi.

Now he has to stick to his 20% use of the interconnector as promised before the last election and by March we should start paying cheaper rates while EneMalta flounders.

Valletta: a city built by gentlemen for gentlemen’s clubs.

In order to shake Hollande’s hands, one needs to squeeze past him in a narrow corridor, maybe just outside the toilets.

http://www.maltastar.com/userfiles/tn/t_460x0_Hollande.jpg

http://election.josephmuscat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/MTL-MANIFEST-ENG-2013.pdf

Try and find any mention of socialism.

Where in the manifesto does it say socialist? Labour are in no way socialist.

Is ours the only country that chooses the solution and then does an EIA?

http://www.businessinsider.com/dutch-newspaper-hollande-handshakes-2014-1

Having said this, the Minister’s comments are already fanning subtle xenophobia on the comments board of The Times under the article linked before.

See this comment by John Azzopardi:

“I totally agree with the minister……..Malta is way too small to allow one more migrant to stay on our shores. If other EU nations want them they can have them. WE are way to small for any more illegals. We must always place our national interest and cutlure ahead of what other foreigners and the EU dictate to us. Viva Malta u Ghawdex”

And this one by Malcolm Azzopardi:

“Prosit Ministru I agree with you 200%….. Had we taken this stand from years ago instead of the stupid burden sharing we wouldn’t have been invaded as we are today”

And by Jay Oatmon:

“I agree with the Foreign Minister .
Charity is a fine thing, but being swamped by people who cannot be identified, with totally different lifestyles, and religions, with virtually no education or skills is not acceptable to any society.”