‘The environment is not a minority interest’

Published: June 7, 2014 at 3:47pm

Read Petra Caruana Dingli’s blog-post on Din L-Art Helwa’s website.

Petra




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  1. admin says:
    June 7, 2014 at 3:48 pm

    http://dinlarthelwa.org/blogs/the-environment-is-not-a-minority-interest/

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  2. Jozef says:
    June 7, 2014 at 4:42 pm

    Carmen Sammut, ‘media expert’, considers the environment just another lobby. This was on Saviour’s Report this week.

    A lobby which deserves Muscat’s benevolent attention, but one of many nonetheless. An attention which Muscat delivers to appeal to as ‘many voter groups as possible’; her words.

    Matthew S is wrong about there being no politics in the media, when the idea is to denounce politics as an inconvenience, the media follows in spirit.

    If it’s the movement it’s politics, what lies outside the nature of the movement becomes a problem for Muscat’s diorama, thus not politics, I was about to insert ‘positive’, but they’ve removed it lately from subjects which no-one dare challenge.

    When words go missing, the nature of things is altered to mean the implication, not their nature.

    Muscat will prevail, or so they don’t say, so why discuss an environment which has to dovetail neatly into Muscat’s Malta li jrid jghix fiha?

    The poison an Astrid Vella never understood keeps her silent, where all that can be said is procedure to policy, bureacracy may I say.

    The committee provides the camel and everyone’s supposedly joyful.

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  3. AE says:
    June 7, 2014 at 9:48 pm

    Great blog-post and to the point.

    The environment is a matter of national interest. So even if this attempt to divert from the main issue is upheld, the referendum still has to be held as it is on an issue of national, (I’d say even international) importance. International as it is about shooting birds which are lying over Malta . They do not belong to Malta but to the world or at least those countries they are migrating from and to.

    Again, even if the Referenda Act is amended, The Coalition against Spring Hunting have exercised a right that exists under the law as of now, so no such amendments should not be retrospective.

    Having said that the attempt to curb the right to call for a referendum is an assault on democracy. I dare say it may even have been the PL to set up the hunters to do this. Like that the Labour Government can remain unchecked for the whole 5 years. The right to call a referendum is already quite limited and we should resist any attempt to curb this right. It is the one tool citizens have to call on the Government during its tenure. It is a tool that not all democratic countries have and it is one which we should be proud of.

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  4. Joe Micallef says:
    June 8, 2014 at 8:59 am

    Let’s not miss the wood for the trees – Malta did just that over a year ago and is still in denial.

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  5. Salvu says:
    June 8, 2014 at 11:19 am

    Positive energy for the environment.

    http://www.timesofmalta.com/mobile/view/20140608/local/-Write-positive-stories-on-agriculture-urges-parliamentary-secretary-Galdes.522372

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