Labour’s spokesman on the environment yesterday slammed government for its delay in providing the emission levels on climate change to the EU, stressing that such a delay could not be seen in isolation.
Leo Brincat said that delays have become part of the current administration’s way of doing things, revealing incompetence in all fields, and recalled the same delay on statistics related to waste management as well as on its initiatives, or lack of, in the alternative energy sector.
In a statement, Leo Brincat expressed his hope that this would not happen again when the country was expected to submit a concrete and detailed plan of action on alternative and renewable energy by the end of June.
It would be more worrying if and when the government submitted the required information, it would result that Malta increased its CO2 emissions while they went down in other countries, primarily because of an economic recession.
The PL MP slammed government for what he described as an apathetic and complacent government, “an attitude that did not augur well to the country’s move towards a green technology and economy and it also showed a lack of commitment on the way such vital and sensitive information in the indicated climate, waste and alternative energy sectors were being processed,” he said.
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