Press Release 7th July 2014 Din l-Art Helwa has received a letter from Dr Robert Abela as lawyer for MEPA CEO Mr Johann Buttigieg wherein the NGO has been asked to apologise and withdraw a statement it issued last week. Making reference to a report on illegal development at San Blas Bay published on the front page by the Sunday Independent of...
Press Release 6th July 2014 Natural coastal areas should be left untouched and not be handed over to developers for speculation says ENGO Din l-Art Helwa. The coastal area adjoining the Pembroke Natura 2000 site should be protected from development, and Din l-Art Helwa calls on the government to show and defend its green credentials. Din l-Art Helwa calls on the Minister for the Environment, Leo Brincat and the Parliamentary Secretary for Planning, Michael Falzon, to ensure that the coastal garigue and agricultural areas at White Rocks in Bahar ic-Caghaq are not...
Din l-Art Helwa strongly condemns any illegal development at San Blas bay in Gozo. It is ironic that while MEPA’s enforcement directorate was recently applauded for issuing enforcement notices on similar developments at Golden Sands and Paradise Bay, no such action was taken on this illegal and unacceptable land clearing activity of a scheduled ecological site despite, according to...
Press Release 26th June 2014 Din l-Art Helwa has submitted further comments to government on the draft Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development, Malta’s principal environment and development plan for the 2014-2020 period. This draft Strategic Plan is intended to replace the Structure Plan of 1990 which was adopted by Parliament. Din l-Art Helwa maintains that this document is fatally flawed...
Press Release 20th June 2014 Din l-Art Helwa refers to the new Policy for high-rise buildings that has been published by MEPA following Government approval (http://www.mepa.org.mt/news-details?id=937). It is ironic that the recently issued Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development (SPED), which is intended to replace the Structure Plan and provide the vision for Malta until 2020, states that no further...
Press Release 26 April 2014 Din l-Art Helwa believes that the main result of the forthcoming demerger of MEPA will be to enable the new Planning Authority to process development applications with less checks and balances. The implementation of this demerger is mainly geared towards serving the interests of the development lobby. The new Environment Authority will be reduced to the position...
Press Release 21 April 2014 Din l-Art Helwa maintains that the Strategic Plan for the Environment and Development (SPED) issued by the government for public consultation is not valid and has described as deplorable the government’s attempt to present this document as fulfilling the expectations of the Strategic Plan which is required to guide development and environment for the next two...
In a letter, signed by DLĦ Gen Secretary Mr George Camilleri, to Perit Vince Cassar, MEPA Chairman, Din l-Art Ħelwa has expressed its extreme concern regarding the safety of the recently approved LNG gas facility. The alarm was raised by information of an accident that occurred recently at an LNG facility on the Washington-Oregon border as reported in the Times...
Press Release 18th March 2014 Din l-Art Helwa questions why the government has still not published a risk analysis report which relates to the Delimara gas storage tanker to be located in Marsaxlokk Bay. Din l-Art Helwa has requested this report by Umberto Maffezzoli from the authorities, but it has not yet been published. This report was commissioned by the Occupational...
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