Leap in the dark? DB go-ahead depends on tunnel beneath Natura 2000 site Approval for downscaled City Centre project in Pembroke based on assumption that 1.4km tunnel will be dug beneath Natura 2000 site, the environmental impacts of which are yet to be assessed 31 May 2021, 9:09am by James Debono The plan for the government-financed subterranean tunnel for vehicular traffic from the St Andrew’s junction, to the DB group’s project The Planning Authority’s case officer’s go-ahead for DB’s massive City Centre project in Pembroke is based on the assumption that Infrastructure Malta will excavate a 1.4km tunnel that must pass beneath a protected Natura 2000 site.