Comment of the night
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January 12, 2013 at 12:39am
From Sandro:
You know what really worries me about the MLP proposal?
The fact that it is completely devoid of any notion that Malta has planning, environmental and procurements rules, procedures and regulations that have to be followed.
It is obviously written by people who have the mentality that they are above any rule and above any regulation. They justify their means by their ends. Like in the Golden Years.
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To someone with a history of shady business relationships in dodgy places, what’s with a few rules here and there in an island no one’s heard of?
Point taken. However, isn’t it time to shine a light on this crap before we get crunched?
However, I disagree with your last comment. We are not unheard of, and EU rules prevail, despite Labour’s future attempt to circumvent them, if elected.
“Bazwar minn hawn, u bazwar minn hemm”. Forsi, ma tafx kif, ingibuha zewg.
Isn’t the Danish Village owned by the GWU? Or did they sell it like Untours and the rest of the subsidiaries they owned?
Ftit tbazwir ‘l-hawn u ftit tbazwir ‘l-hemm. It was tried before and it failed but with Labour that is not sufficient reason for not trying once more, if a crazy electorate gives them the opportunity.
Did I understand Konrad Mizzi correctly? Did he say that all they needed to do is to update the previous EIA? Did he say it would take just 4 or 5 weeks?
MEPA’s drafting of the terms of reference ALONE would take at least two months and I am being optimistic.
MEPA will certainly ask for the assessment of alternative sites for the gas storage tanks and that will take at least another six months.
This is an infringement in the making with all the delays, costs and fines that this would bring with it. There is no way that the EU would allow such blatant messing around with the EIA Directive.
Mhux il-Guy kiteb il-manifest?
A very pertinent observation. Those rules exist as part of our rights.
It is our right to participate in a public process on matters that affect our environment and which ultimately affect us.
Like those families living around Delimara.
But Labour never showed any respect to human rights or to the principle of rule of law.
The good thing about this proposal is that Labour propose to reduce the tariffs within one year, and that the project will be ready within two years.
That gives us at least two opportunities to get rid of a Labour government within two years. 1996-1998, deja-vu.
I wouldn’t be so sure on the ” an island no one’s heard of” part
To be quite frank, the whole campaign and its sources smell of ‘Golden Years’ politics.
The latest example which came to mind is the leader’s attitude of mocking the opposing party members on a personal level which the ‘Madonna vision’ incident demonstrates so clearly.
I just can’t see how the so-called ‘floaters’ can take the risk of, God forbid, voting for the return of the brutish and insult-laden politics of the Mintoffian regime.
A planning application to MEPA normally takes 6 weeks to be processed. This is a standard timeframe.
Konrad Mizzi is pledging to ‘update the BWSC EIA’ (no mean feat, whatever that means, since a new powerstation will warrant its own EIA) in 4-5 weeks (Xarabank, last night).
If this is not butchering the EIA process, for which there is an ad hoc EU Directive governing such practices, then I dont know what is.
Back to the years when projects were shoved through, without an notion of EIA being conducted whatsoever.
Is the Malta Developers Association, in its approval of the PL’s proposals, pushing for a whittling down on the planning process (e.g. reduction in application processing timeframes) to favour more development?
This would be rich from the catalyst behind the setting up of the Planning Authority in the early 1990s (Michael Falzon).