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The Enemalta dossier - why emission laws were relaxed for Delimara bid

Matthew Vella
Labour MP Evarist Bartolo writes today how emission laws were relaxed, upon request of Enemalta Corporation itself, and enabled Danish firm BWSC to safely tender for the €200 million extension to the Delimara power station.
Bartolo says that BWSC fearlessly proposed a diesel engine turbine in 2006, despite public statements by government minister Austin Gatt that diesel power did not meet environmental standards.
But in March 2008, two years after tendering started, Enemalta asked the government to relax emission laws and redefine the scope of ‘diesel engines’, to finally remove the two obstacles to the technology proposed by BWSC.
Revealing the contents of an Enemalta dossier, Bartolo says the Corporation itself asked for these necessary legal amendments.

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