Ghadira Road

Press Release, 1st December 2008 Foresta 2000 project partners BirdLife Malta and Din l-Art Helwa today confirmed that the TEN-T road project in Ghadira would cut through Phases 2 and 3 of the Foresta site, contrary to Minister Gatt’s claims. BirdLife and Din l-Art Helwa today revealed a map showing the boundaries of the Foresta 2000 site. The proposed road cuts through Phases 2...

Maltatoday, 23rd November 2008, by James Debono BirdLife Malta and the Danish Village holiday complex are up in arms against a proposed new road linking Mellieha to Cirkewwa, arguing that this would pass right through a Natura 2000 site, protected by the EU’s Habitats and Birds Directives, as well as sections of the much-publicised Foresta 2000 afforestation project, including protected garigue...

Press Release 28 November 2008 SIX environmental NGOs including Din l-Art Helwa, Nature Trust (Malta), BirdLife Malta, Friends of the Earth (Malta),  the Light Pollution Awareness Group and the Ramblers Association today expressed their opposition to the recently proposed new TEN-T road project in Ghadira. The NGOs stated that the proposed project will have a major negative impact on the environment with...

The Sunday Times of Malta, 30 November 2008 – Editorial Austin Gatt seems to have forgotten in a more complete sense than most of his Cabinet colleagues – and in some cases their sense of amnesia has been pretty acute – that the Nationalist Party won the last election by just 1,500 votes. That result happened for a reason: the electorate were saying...

Sunday Times of Malta, 30 November 2008, by Herman Grech The management of the Danish Village has taken exception to comments made by Infrastructure Minister Austin Gatt in relation to the complex as the crossfire over the controversial Għadira road proposal continued yesterday. When contacted, Danish Village managing director Flemming Jensen said: “We are shocked and surprised at the minister’s comments. Is...

Times of Malta, 28th November 2008, by Nestor Laiviera Rural Affairs Minister George Pullicino adopted a guarded approach when asked about the planned Għadira road that will cut through fields and the side of a Foresta 2000 site, saying the proposed project was “not cast in stone”. Five proposals were unveiled on Wednesday as part of a €15 million project aimed at...