Joe Mizzi uses moles, spies and infiltrators – and he boasts about it
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April 2, 2014 at 7:30am
The Malta Independent reported yesterday that the Minister for Oil Exploration and Buses has said that he will have what he called an “inside man” on the exploratory oil rig which will be test drilling off Malta.
I’m sure the test-drillers were delighted to hear about it from that news report.
The “inside man”, Mizzi told parliament (of all places), has yet to be identified, but when he is, he will “report directly to me”.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-04-01/news/minister-mizzi-to-have-inside-man-on-oil-rig-4459331587/
Joe Mizzi publicly declared that he knows the exact spot where oil can be found.
Who voted for these people? Let’s line them up and shoot them at dawn.
Yes, the G-spot.
Not even!
He declared that on Xarabank….I am sure somebody can get part of the recording of that particular Xarabank show and post it on here.
Actually it was on Bondi +.
In that TV programme, Joe Mizzi invented the claim that oil had been found in the Madonna taz-Zejt well. This was all invention to justify spending 30 million euro on his pipedream ‘oil’ well in Gozo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13mQLiMFrMg
The last time Joe Mizzi told us that he knows where the oil is was in 1998, when Sant was prime minister and he was ‘ministru bla portafol’.
He had commissioned the Madonna taz-Zejt well in Kercem, Gozo.
He was so convinced about finding oil in Gozo that he ignored the Petroleum Production Act and directly funded the Kercem well from public funds.
That well cost Maltese taxpayers 30 million euros, for nothing.
Deal or no deal?
Post-doctoral in oil exploration?
Gejja xi iced bun ohra. Il-gopps jivvintawhom.
Tghid mhux xi Peter Gatt li kien kritika kemm felah lill Gonzi .
Actually Peter Gatt had been very critical of Joe Mizzi’s fantasy oil well in Gozo (Madonna taz-Zejt well).
I do not recall Peter Gatt criticising ‘Gonzi’ but he did lay waste to projects that defied geological sense.
Ulla. Haffer hawn.
Qulla Madunnecc, xi zupp qitt tughmel hemm foxx l-alla li halqek. Go bekk wer yu kumm fromm.
I just cannot believe that this has been allowed to be seen here Shame on whoever wrote it.
[Daphne – For heaven’s sake, can’t you see it’s ironic.]
Sorry you don’t blaspheme for ironic’s sake.
I have never known a government representative to be placed onboard a drilling unit.
Any person this regime chooses will have zero input into the drilling program, probably zero experience on a drilling rig, probably zero well control experience, absolutely no responsibilities at all as far as the client or drilling contractor will allow.
He will be what is normally called an “oxygen stealer”, taking up valuable bedspace on a small semi-sub rig and generally being seen by all for what he is.
I would love to see his daily reports to the beach. He will be a liability on the drill floor, a liability hanging around the companymans office, a liability to the poor suffering camp boss.
He will end up asking banal questions on which he has no knowledge, competence or experience. And what of his relief? Is he going to stay onboard the MODU for the entire well campaign, because they usually work rotational on rigs.
The only time I have known government reps to be onboard, they worked for the NOC of the state and were onboard FPSOs to monitor production targets.
Before the election Joe Mizzi said over and over again that he knows exactly where oil can be drilled out and that if he does not find oil immediately once a minister he will resign. Mizzi has now been in office for over one year and still no trace of oil nor of his resignation. This man is a joke.
Not as big a joke as the people who voted for him or the man who appointed him to cabinet.
Great job sitting on an oil rig waiting for something interesting to happen – what a waste of money. What’s this chap going to do all day? Check drill heads?
They’ll fly Justyne Caruana out to him with seng-witches in her plastik bozza tal-Armata: the Joe Mizzi Spy Relief Mission.
Nice to see that egomania is alive and well. The ‘as yet’ unidentified ‘man’ bit is a good joke. Yes sure we believe you, just one suggestion: saying ‘inside person’ would have made you look more hip.
Joe Mizzi uses moles, spies and infiltrators – and he boasts about it – sounds a bit like you though doesn’t it! LOL
[Daphne – I would call you a moron if I hadn’t yet had my coffee. I’m a journalist, not a cabinet minister. ]
Ouch.
Didn’t this man promise us that after 6 months we would be pumping oil since he knows exactly where the black gold is? He’s been there 13 months and they haven’t even started looking yet.
That’s because they haven’t raided my kitchen cabinet yet.
This minster lacks vision and intelligence. No wonder Dr. Sant made him a minister without portfolio during 1996-1998.
Joe Mizzi is just fine. Nowhere in Labour’s pre-requisites for ministers are ‘vision and intelligence’ listed.
All that is needed is unconditional loyalty to the party. Anything else is irrelevant.
Forsi kien qed jgħid għaż-żejt li għandu fl-armarju tal-kċina. Taqbdux miegħu miskin għax intom fhimtu ħażin.
Iz-zmien isajjar il-bajtar!
Iz-zmien jaghtina parir!
Min jistenna jithenna!
Iva, iz-zejt ghad jitla’ f’wicc l-ilma.
Nisperaw li-zejt ma jitlax f’wicc l-ilma ghax ikollna hafna trouble bil-pollution :-)
meanwhile in other news…..
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/37586/odz_no_longer_odz_under_proposed_mepa_rule#.UzwWCXCKDIW
So, who’s Moneypenny?
Gabi Calleja of the LGBT Movement.
He knows where the oil is. Bhas-soluzzjoni li kellu ghall-Arriva mela.
But why should Joe Mizzi the Transport Minister need an “inside man”? Is he suspecting that the drilling company will strike oil and not tell him about it?
And another thing. I wonder if Mizzi knows the meaning of “inside man”. It’s not his representative, as he probably means, but someone who is employed by the drilling company (hence ‘inside’) but secretly works for him. An undercover agent.
And he’s blabbing about it to the media. Il-veru vaż.
It’s exactly because there is no inside man but he wants them to think there is.
A cunning plan !
This is the man who advertised his plan to ride on buses undercover to find out what it’s like to be a passenger.
Because, you know, he’d NEVER ridden a bus before, so he had no idea what it’s like.
You mean somebody who is revealing inside information he shouldn’t be?
To a government minister who invites breach of confidentiality openly and publicly and brags about it?
Why am I not surprised?
I think this has been happening for far too long in sectors far more delicate and personal.
Kindly allow me to remind your readers of a joke which you published some time ago and which I am told is very popular on the Opposition benches.
It is more effective in Maltese.
“X’inhi id-differenza bejn Tejologu u Joe Mizzi?”
“Tejologu hu professur ta’ Alla u Joe Mizzi injorant tal-Madonna”.
That says it all.
Political Commissars.
I don’t know if you have the bogey man in Malta. Be good or the bogey man will get you. For bogey read inside. Pure fiction.
The reason China bought Enemalta’s debt was simply to bind the Maltese government into giving exclusive oil and gas drilling rights to a China-state-owned company such as Sinopec or CNOOC.
Remember that China does not have enough oil in its own territory and has been buying such drilling rights and even buying oil drilling companies to get access to oil & gas in foreign territory, including the USA and Canada.
Take note of today’s date and remember that you read about this here first.
I’m actually taking a screenshot of this.
Be quiet all of you, you cannot comprehend the genius of MR. MIZZI.
If that’s the case, then we should assume that he also had people on the inside at Arriva, and maybe they were responsible for sabotage.
He must have grown tired of playing at cops and robbers. So now he is trying his luck with spies.
Dear Daphne, I’m sure that Joe Mizzi won’t need an inside man on NPR (the name of the rig) as there are lots of Laburisti working on it already and the superintendent of the rig who happen to be Maltese and from Birzebbugia but resides in England is a Laburist too.
So definitely he has a lot of inside men on the exploration rig.
I know all of this because I used to work with most of them on another rig (NHF) which is stacked near Filfla.