Il-Guy, the Coconut and Konrad Mizzi are giving a press conference live on Super One right now
The aim is to rebut what Tonio Fenech said.
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Gosh, it’s going well for them, isn’t it? Konrad Mizzi is such an attractive personality, and an excellent communicator. I bet you understood everything he said in between his sarcastic and pointless asides about his nemesis, Tonio Fenech.
The line-up: Il-Coconut jaqra l-intro mill-pitazz, qisu xi cuc; Il-Guy qisu xi wiehed go old people’s home bid-dementia qabel il-waqt (come on, he’s really doddery for somebody of just 62 – must be something going on there), and Herr Flick’s secret love child, bil-leptopp u l-crazy figuri.
Karmenu Vella’s barely said a word. And journalists aren’t asking him any questions yet, even though he is the one who is politically responsible at the end of the day.
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Did they wake up il-Guy from his siesta?
How does Mizzi qualify as an energy expert? His qualifications are not relevant to energy
Is there anyone in the MDA close to the PL? It would be interesting to find out who.
The Malta Developers (not Development, as The Times incorrectly reported) Association must be delighted that “useless bureaucracy” such as MEPA environmental and planning regulations are going to be thrown overboard.
They see Muscat’s Malta as a free-for-all developers’ paradise: Malta tagħna lkoll.
Where is Astrid Vella?
Worrying about some baroque house in Sliema?
Oh, this is a Labour project. Best not open our mouths, then.
That’s exactly what I was thinking too.
At least they published my comment on timesofmalta.com about this very point, and about the point that the independent media didn’t pick up on the link between the MEA and Konrad Mizzi.
I was incredibly surprised, given that anything that criticises the media or Labour is generally cut out.
On the electronic programme guide on my TV, it says “Aroma Kitchen” while their press conference is going on.
I can smell Konrad Mizzi’s balbuljata from my living room.
Preaching to the converted?
And what happened to Konrad’s lipstick? Is Super One on cost-cutting already now that Labour’s Empire Station proposal is looking like it will not fly?
What a useless tosser.
Konrad Mizzi must be over the moon. He seems to be really enjoying his 15 minutes of fame.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130110/local/pl-hits-out-at-fenech-s-amateurish-presentation.452726
Someone commented that the Socialists’ blue is getting bluer.
Soon they’ll be blue in the face. Labour won’t work.
Is this guy a second hand car salesman?
A quick internet search demolishes his 10 year gas purchase agreement argument:
http://www.natgas.info/html/gascontracts.html
Three cheers for the journalist from The Malta Independent. She made Mizzi blink at an abnormal rate.
What’s with all the Inglizati by Konrad? Nafuh?
But the way he pronounced options and farms he kind of gave himself away…
Snob.
If my memory doesn’t fail me, the last Labour government (1996-1998) squandered almost all of its 22 month tenure on the Qawra promenade project.
Do they seriously expect us to believe that they will finish off what is effectively a new power station in a similar time-span?
And they said that the Qawra promenade project was the greatest achievement that any governent had ever had. What a bunch of amateurs!
Every 1996-1998 Labour Minister claims credit for the Qawra project. Alfred Sant. Karmenu Vella. Charles Buhagiar…
When Konrad Mizzi speaks, he is barely comprehensible. Dear God, please save us from this bunch of idiots.
With 25% reduction of my electricity bills, I would have just about more money to buy a packet of cigarettes per week.
Is Labour really thinking that for that meagre amount I am ready to trade the quality of life I have had for these last 25 years, to the one of the 70s and 80s? No way. I am already middle class. No thank you.
I’m starting to get the picture.
This isn’t about domestic prices, emissions or anything else they’re blabbing away.
This is reversing Malta’s integration into the European grid;
The pipeline isn’t of any interest unless the contract is in place first. So now the offshore terminal is something worth looking at eh?
I can see the spin on Super 1, ‘Tonio was in favour”
How does one set out the contract renewal periods before even starting any negotiations? You’re a liar Konrad.
I suppose when the motivation is to put a spanner in the works leading to Malta’s strategy, moving away from Europe, and shock horror, Italy’s supplies, you’ve gained your experience doing the same thirty years ago.
Keeping your cards to your chest to draw the minister into a trap to unleash your instinctive penchant for the personal doesn’t make you any respectable. It just shows who you really are, a rabid Mintoffjan under instructions from those who’ll do anything to remove the EU’s influence.
Bastards.
Solar farms in depleted open quarries eh? Are they by any chance the ones snapped up all over the south coast leading from Dingli down to Hal Far?
The ones next to Mnajdra, Lapsi, overlooking Fawwara, below il-Munqar and onto Wied Fulija?
Swell. Natura 2000, ODZ, regional parks out the window.
Scheming liars.
And don’t quote Profs.Mallia, he’s a sweet kind man. But if a new route is created, it’s not as if one can book a free ship on standby in the med.
Mizzi does change his mind according to the times:
“Dr Mizzi argued that European Energy policy should evolve to support the needs of island states. More specifically Mizzi proposed the idea that interconnectors could be considered as European shared infrastructure and funded as such.
“This would be a step change from current practice where such infrastructure is either funded by an investor or the national transmission company with part-funding from the EU. In this way EU infrastructure would facilitate market development,” he said.”
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maltastar.com
Well, when a Labour government wiithdraws Malta’s EU membership in 2016, don’t say I hadn’t warned you.
Sandro Chetcuti’s endorsement of the Labour project just makes it all that more credible.
Are these the same Labour Party and labour protagonists like Karmenu Vella and others as old as him, who in 1987 used to tell us that we did not need a new power station?
Labour had used all their power, energy and even physical force to disrupt the project for the building of a new power station which was evidently needed at the time as between 1971 nad 1987 we did not have the most important utilities – yes we did not have water and electricity during the Labour administration.
Now they are saying that they want to build another Power Station, but they are requesting that the funds required will be forked out by the private sector.
They are refusing to present the projections of this huge project so how can they expect that the private sector will take the risk to fork out the money without presenting to him the facts and the workings of this huge project. Business people never trusted Labour in mionor projects so how come they are expected to be trusted in such a huge project. Labour always worked against the business men and therefore business never had any trust in Labour.
Labour are saying that they will ignore, or by-pass all the local Authorities to work fast on this project.
So, imagine how Labour will behave towards the EU on certain important issues which are controlled by EU regulations?
What EU regulations? That’s not something they agreed to remember, and if any terms of the ‘partnership’ don’t suit them, time for revision.
In Labour’s own report, the gas pipeline is specified as the cheapest option, yet Labour is ignoring this. Why?
The Labour Party is in a mess with no vision at all and this is highly dangerous for ALL the Maltese citizens.
Because it’s the wrong gas.
It seems that Labour will be keeping on the oil power station as backup, but haven’t they promised its chimney’s removal?
“On the bases of preliminary indications provided by Enemalta, that the best
approach is to develop the pipeline infrastructure. Enemalta has arrived to this conclusion on the basis
the fact that LNG and CNG infrastructures, particularly those related to the shipping elements,
would be likely to have a useful life of around 20 years, whereas the gas pipeline would have a
useful life of around 30 years – viewed in this manner, the pipeline option would have a residual
value of around USD106 million, implying a net investment cost over the 20-year horizon of
circa USD214 million;
operational and maintenance costs in the solutions involving shipping are likely to be higher
than those of the pipeline;
land utilisation is likely to be less intense in the case of the use of the pipeline infrastructure – it
is appreciated that the shore infrastructure for the CNG and LNG options would use the area
already being allocated to the power plant;
the complexity of shipping operations and attendant economic, financial and environmental
risks, particularly those related to on-shore storage facilities within a densely populated
territory, would not be present to the same extent under the pipeline approach.
Contrasting these elements would be the fact that the pipeline infrastructure would possibly limit
diversification opportunities for the sourcing of fuel from a geographical market perspective, in that
such infrastructure would be tied to a particular geographical location. This consideration, however, is
not deemed to outweigh the advantages listed above.”
see Annex I of this report http://www.mepa.org.mt/file.aspx?f=6442
And the PN also considered integrating the two, a hypothetical offshore terminal to be used for commercial purposes, tapped into by the addition of a pipeline as a spinoff benefiting Malta making it more than eligible for EU funding.
The EU gets access to the terminal as part of the European global energetic strategy.
Clockwork.
Then a Joe Mizzi comes along to tell us the PN doesn’t have an energy policy.
The PN should focus to remind the voters about the huge projects which were created during the years the PN was in government, I mean road networks, infrastructure, education, parks, wasteserv plant, heritage projects, EU funds.
The PN should focus to remind the voters about the huge projects which were created during the years the PN was in government, such as:
Road networks
Rehabilitation projects
Infrastructure
Education
Parks
Animal sancuary and clinic
Wasteserv plant
Heritage projects
Employment
Hospital and medical services
Investment
EU funds, and many other which do not come to mind.
I say this because Joseph Muscat and all the stupid people around him are trying to use the water and electricity bills to make the voters forget about the huge improvement Malta has made during the years when the PN was in goverment.
I’d put it differently:
EU citizenship
Membership of EU agencies
Normal relations with other states
Sensible diplomatic relations
EU regulations applied back home, with consequent raising of standards in countless aspects of daily life
Brilliant move to regulate igaming before many EU states in order to attract investors
It’s about the intangibles more than anything else. The lifting of that awful feeling of being the freak among nations.
Any link where we can watch this? Could do with a good laugh.
Karmenu Vella looked like the sleepy ground-hog finally emerging from its lair in the ”Groundhog Day” film.