The Labour Party has accounted for the studies that need to be made for its proposed gas-fired power plant to be in line with European environmental directives, Joseph Muscat insisted yesterday.
Dr Muscat acknowledged that part of Labour’s proposal to have two new storage tanks with a capacity of 36,000 metres cubed at the Delimara power plant site, would need to be regulated under what is known as the Seveso Directive but insisted that the party had accounted for this.
The Times asked whether the study requirements of the directive would jeopardise the target date, which Labour itself acknowledged was “tight”, but Dr Muscat stuck to his line, stressing that a Labour government would make sure the deadline is met.
He also said the party had no intention of bypassing the planning authority in the process but would insist on an expedited process similar to the Smart City project.
“I am not aware that there were any problems with the way the Smart City process was conducted yet it was an expedited process, because the Government demanded it to be so and it did well,” he said, also referring to the permits issued for the City Gate project in the same vein.
Dr Muscat also pointed to...
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