Marlene Farrugia goes to war: the gas pipeline is the best solution and anything else is an unsightly waste of money
At the suggestion that her boyfriend/husband (nobody is quite sure whether they’ve married) may be dropped from the cabinet and his job given to John Dalli on an official basis, Labour MP Marlene Farrugia, who says that this is her last term in parliament anyway, has gone to war.
Obviously, on Facebook.
The gas pipeline is the best way to go about it, she writes, and anything else – for which read the gas floating storage unit – is a dangerous, unsightly, wasteful “temporary solution”.
Makes you wonder why she voted Labour, more so stood for election on that party’s ticket. After all, this was the Big Ticket in their electoral programme – or at least, the one they didn’t keep hidden until it was too late.
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Marlene Farrugia for president. She and Godfrey are in the wrong political party.
Tajba, Marlene – ghax ma tkellimtx qabel l-elezzjoni?
Anke jiena ghandi xi nghid fuq din il-bicca tinten.
http://mariataxkieli.blogspot.com/
This was not Labour’s big ticket. What we are “seeing” now is totally different from what was actually presented (the big ticket) a year ago.
Marlene Farrugia’s temporary solution will not be less than 18 years long as bound by her partner’s fellow cabinet minister, by virtue of the contract he signed.
In the meantime let’s all hope that the engine-less rust bucket (built in 1978) which will contain 140,000 m3 of LNG, does not spring a leak and cause an energy disaster, nowhere mentioned in the Greek ‘expert’ report’s realm of possibilities.
Love it, nitwits become experts.
“Government should set the ball rolling…”
Indeed.
Let me spell it out for you, Marlene:
F.U.C.K. Y.O.U.
Who voted for this government?
Who won the election?
Who sits in government?
YOU, YOU, YOU.
So stop talking about the government as if it were The Big Other and you were The Poor Little, Sweet Little, Innocent Little Mar-bloody-lene.
Honestly, this sodding country and its sodding politicians. Enough to make you reach for your cyanide capsules.
I have just been reaching for my valerian, for now. The Farrugias should leave the party and found a new splinter party.
Godfrey or whatever his name is is just going to be scapegoated as is Konrad Mizzi.
Marlene is just a renegade with no sense of accountability. A three-man splinter party is the only option that sees them bow out of politics with some dignity.
It’s Labour’s latest spin, Deborah Schembri considers the ‘storage unit’ as a temporary solution, as did another Labour MEP candidate this week.
The advantage of having a floating vessel, they say, is that this would only remain moored until the pipeline’s in place.
What both didn’t say was how the regasifier, on land, would be rendered redundant once the gas is pumped to Marsaxlokk.
It will soon be the PN was against the pipeline whereas they always preferred it in the first place.
I think even they understood it’s virtually impossible to have an operating power station, regasifier, storage and jetties in place by next year.
Which in turn renders the project a budget busting operation. Muscat had spoken about some 30 million Euros up front by the supplier/contractor to make up for Enemalta’s loss due reduced bills. I don’t see how they’ll have the brazen cheek to add another year of losses, or two.
No wonder Muscat’s snappy lately.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-03-09/news/pm-defends-lng-storage-plans-says-tanker-will-eventually-be-replaced-4196237312/
See?
He still found the time for the usual lies of course,
‘…The PN used to say that such tankers did not exist until a year ago; an EU expert has given the go-ahead for the government’s plans and the Opposition’s scaremongering will not be believed by the people of the south…’
Given that he was forced to more than double capacity because no vessel small enough for the initial 60,000cbm capacity was available, we can say the problem’s solved. Up yours PN and Ann Fenech.
‘…He added that the new gas power station would lead to cleaner air, replacing the ‘silent killers’ which were left by a PN-led administration, referring to the use of heavy fuel oil (HFO)….’
And wasn’t he supposed to change over immediately from HFO to gasoil once elected to save our lives?
‘…He said that as soon as a funding agreement will be reached with the EU, a gas pipeline would eventually replace the tanker and the Marsa power station would be closed….’
Silly me thought Marsa would be closed as soon as the interconnector’s in place and running, but perhaps leaving it restricted to one fifth of its capacity requires Marsa be kept up and running, EU fines and all.
This individual cannot go on spouting nonsense for another four years simply to keep up his charades. Something will have to give. And it is, noticed how people seem reluctant to part with their money lately?
The sign of a general lack of trust, especially when the project relies on these arguments;
Dr Gauci rubbished fears that a natural gas cloud could ignite directly over Marsaxlokk.
‘…He explained that a gas cloud could not reach the inner harbour area and endanger residents’ lives, as it would have found a source of ignition long before drifting across the port into residential areas.
The report by Papadakis says that any gas cloud will meet a source of ignition within two minutes of an accident happening.
Dr Gauci said that any ignition will result in a burn-back to source, meaning that the flames will not envelope outwards to residential areas but rather implode….’
Implode, a highly flammable gas in vapour state known to have no flash limit will simply implode.
Where do they get their physics, Wile E. Coyote’s ACME?
Good to know ignition will take place mostly around the power plant leaving the whole island crippled.
These certainly were not implosions…
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QTQrVXEPQrM
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9sW_fJqOo
Procrastination? What about the Inter-connector which makes all of this gas nonsense all for nothing?
Sometimes I wonder what country these Labourites live in and in times like these I wonder what planet.
Ma naqbilx. U jekk l-EU ikollha xi kwistjoni mar-Russja? Kullhadd jaf kemm huma bullies gvernijiet Russi. X’naghmlu nispiccaw minghajr elettriku?
Hot air!
Then she should have voted PN, as that was the previous government’s policy.
She goes out on attack but then tries to dampen the whole issue with the last sentence, placing the blame on the previous PN administration
Until Marlene Farrugia matches actions in Parliament to her words they are worth sweet nothing.
Just spin.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140310/local/muscat-safer-to-berth-lng-tanker-inside-marsaxlokk-bay-than-offshore.510039
I wonder how she will vote for it in parliament, with the big leader watching.