Transport Minister Ian Borg says plans to relocate Anton Agius monument in Mosta by Infrastructure Malta reflected council's wishes but the agency will no longer front the application
An illegal development that includes a concrete batching plant and a yard for storing heavy machinery and vehicles has been operating in a quiet, agricultural area in Mġarr for over a year.
In spite of an enforcement notice (EC/00040/20) and daily fines issued by the Planning Authority (PA) since March of last year, the site, in Triq il-Palma, has been expanding.
The site, which is outside the development zone and has been scheduled as an area of ecological importance and high landscape value, has seen such extensive flouting of planning laws that the PA is also reviewing the case for potential direct action.
Marsa residents and activists say plans to relocate an oil tank cleaning operation to the inner harbour town should be called off immediately, with no studies and or consultation preceding the delicate decision.
Last month, Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg announced the transfer from Fort Ricasoli to the Mediterranean Offshore Bunkering Company site in Marsa, after years of complaints by Kalkara residents over emissions from the facility.
Borg said that Ricasoli Port Facility Ltd would take over the operations and workers of the MOBC. The facility is used to clean the tanks of oil tankers before they enter shipyards for repairs.
Infrastructure Minister Ian Borg has hit back at critics of the pomp with which the Marsa Junction road works project was inaugurated, arguing that similar events during Nationalist administrations cost a lot more.
In a Facebook post on Monday, Borg said that the ceremony for the €70 million Marsa Junction project, held earlier this month, cost taxpayers €45,480.
He said that was less than one-third the €141,771 spent to inaugurate the €1.2 million renovation of St George’s Square in Valletta in 2009 and half the €80,123 spent to inaugurate a new €10 million bus terminus outside the capital in July 2011. Both those projects were inaugurated by a Nationalist government.
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