So why not just use the interconnector all the time?

You just have to read this story in The Sunday Times. When storms are brewing and blowing, there’s going to have to be great, big operation to detach that massive gas tanker from the jetty and attach it to a storm mooring system which cuts off the gas supply to the Gasan/Fenech power station.

This means that the power station will shut down “for days” at a time. Enemalta will make up the electricity shortfall by using the interconnector and “other parts of the Delimara power station”.

So why not just use the interconnector all the time? Ah, but that wouldn’t have populated our Panama companies, would it. By now, it’s possible to read the hyper-predictable cynicism of the Muscat triad like a Janet-and-John book. Even as they were hatching corrupt plots in 2012 and the first few weeks of 2013 with the Tumas and Gasan groups for a done-deal power station that was then “put out to tender” (what a black farce that was), they busily fed ‘Enemalta oil scandal’ stories to a cooperative newspaper.

This cynicism is a trademark of Muscat’s: creating a hue and cry about something when he is working on something much worse himself. As a psychological insight, I think he does it not only to distract people’s attention from his own endeavours and to score political advantage, but because he gets cynical pleasure from watching people being damned for X while he gets away with the massively more serious Y.