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	Comments on: Malta contracted to buying electricity from Gasan/Fenech&#8217;s power station at €70 million a year more than we are paying now	</title>
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		By: Paul Tabone		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Tabone]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2017 16:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I would cancel the contract immediately on change of government. To offset this extreme capitalism only a Christian Democratic Party with the 80% average plebs in mind would make a difference.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would cancel the contract immediately on change of government. To offset this extreme capitalism only a Christian Democratic Party with the 80% average plebs in mind would make a difference.</p>
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		By: Oscar Meli		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Oscar Meli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2016 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I hear they&#039;re worried, and busy stacking up emergency funds in BVI.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hear they&#8217;re worried, and busy stacking up emergency funds in BVI.</p>
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		By: Daphne Caruana Galizia		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/10/malta-contracted-buying-electricity-gasanfenechs-power-station-e70-million-year-paying-now/#comment-3105667</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Caruana Galizia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By the courts. Corruption is proved in court and contracts are annulled by the court.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the courts. Corruption is proved in court and contracts are annulled by the court.</p>
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		By: Daphne Caruana Galizia		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Caruana Galizia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Courts of law can&#039;t strip people of their professional secrecy obligations.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Courts of law can&#8217;t strip people of their professional secrecy obligations.</p>
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		By: Daphne Caruana Galizia		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Caruana Galizia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/10/malta-contracted-buying-electricity-gasanfenechs-power-station-e70-million-year-paying-now/#comment-3105654&quot;&gt;Victor Vella&lt;/a&gt;.

You can&#039;t have a referendum on a works or services contract. An agreement is between the contracting parties. Third parties have no say in the matter and contracts of that nature can&#039;t be annulled unilaterally by one of the parties.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/10/malta-contracted-buying-electricity-gasanfenechs-power-station-e70-million-year-paying-now/#comment-3105654">Victor Vella</a>.</p>
<p>You can&#8217;t have a referendum on a works or services contract. An agreement is between the contracting parties. Third parties have no say in the matter and contracts of that nature can&#8217;t be annulled unilaterally by one of the parties.</p>
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		By: Victor Vella		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Victor Vella]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 21:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/10/malta-contracted-buying-electricity-gasanfenechs-power-station-e70-million-year-paying-now/#comment-3105565&quot;&gt;nollop&lt;/a&gt;.

He can make life hell for them call a referendum just after the election and you will see the contract torn to shreds
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/10/malta-contracted-buying-electricity-gasanfenechs-power-station-e70-million-year-paying-now/#comment-3105565">nollop</a>.</p>
<p>He can make life hell for them call a referendum just after the election and you will see the contract torn to shreds</p>
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		By: Daphne Caruana Galizia		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daphne Caruana Galizia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#039;m afraid you still have to obtain a court judgement on whether a contract is lawful, corrupt or not, and thereby valid or invalid.

Governments are not above the law, nor are they the law.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m afraid you still have to obtain a court judgement on whether a contract is lawful, corrupt or not, and thereby valid or invalid.</p>
<p>Governments are not above the law, nor are they the law.</p>
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		By: Jan Farrugia		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jan Farrugia]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Your comment needs some corrections. Power generation did become a heavy political issue but mainly because Muscat was immorally conning us, dangling the false cheap energy carrot when the price of oil was between $120 and $140 a barrel. 

However, the investments at Enemalta, mainly in the upgrading of the national grid, the BWSC plant and the interconnector, were not politically motivated but very simply the fruit of research and hard work done by the expert engineers at Enemalta (who have now been stonewalled or simply dismissed). Thanks to these engineers today we have electrical power being purchased at 5 cents a unit (thanks also to US oil engineers and technologists who developed the oil and gas fracking technology which made the USA self sufficient in oil and a net LNG exporter, causing the price of oil to crash) while Electrogas will be dumping theirs on us at 9.6 cents a unit. This Electrogas deal is called daylight robbery.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Your comment needs some corrections. Power generation did become a heavy political issue but mainly because Muscat was immorally conning us, dangling the false cheap energy carrot when the price of oil was between $120 and $140 a barrel. </p>
<p>However, the investments at Enemalta, mainly in the upgrading of the national grid, the BWSC plant and the interconnector, were not politically motivated but very simply the fruit of research and hard work done by the expert engineers at Enemalta (who have now been stonewalled or simply dismissed). Thanks to these engineers today we have electrical power being purchased at 5 cents a unit (thanks also to US oil engineers and technologists who developed the oil and gas fracking technology which made the USA self sufficient in oil and a net LNG exporter, causing the price of oil to crash) while Electrogas will be dumping theirs on us at 9.6 cents a unit. This Electrogas deal is called daylight robbery.</p>
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		By: Jozef		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jozef]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/10/malta-contracted-buying-electricity-gasanfenechs-power-station-e70-million-year-paying-now/#comment-3105527&quot;&gt;T Brincat&lt;/a&gt;.

I have it they want out of Electrogas soonest and always did. Set up the thing and get some sucker to pass the buck to. This thing exists only because we have not been given the details. 



How&#039;s that for a press without a clue? ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/10/malta-contracted-buying-electricity-gasanfenechs-power-station-e70-million-year-paying-now/#comment-3105527">T Brincat</a>.</p>
<p>I have it they want out of Electrogas soonest and always did. Set up the thing and get some sucker to pass the buck to. This thing exists only because we have not been given the details. </p>
<p>How&#8217;s that for a press without a clue? </p>
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		By: Jozef		</title>
		<link>https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/10/malta-contracted-buying-electricity-gasanfenechs-power-station-e70-million-year-paying-now/#comment-3105607</link>

		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jozef]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/10/malta-contracted-buying-electricity-gasanfenechs-power-station-e70-million-year-paying-now/#comment-3105581&quot;&gt;ex Laburist minn H&#039;Attard&lt;/a&gt;.

Agreed. ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2016/10/malta-contracted-buying-electricity-gasanfenechs-power-station-e70-million-year-paying-now/#comment-3105581">ex Laburist minn H&#8217;Attard</a>.</p>
<p>Agreed. </p>
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