Archive for August, 2008

Alternative Energy

August 30, 2008

30/08/08 The Malta Independent

by Ralph Cassar

 

What a refreshing and positive article by Sarah Bonnici about the potential of alternative energy in Malta (Energy and Growth, TMID 27 August).It goes without saying that the economic benefits of directing at least part of our economy to innovation and investment in new technologies are there for the taking. The technology is there. What we need now is, as Alternattiva Demokratika has been proposing, to help families invest in alternative energy systems, taking pressure off our fossil fuel power stations and in the process creating a local market for products which with the right fiscal incentives can be manufactured locally.

German legislation spearheaded by the German Green Party in government, provides an interesting example which can be adapted to Malta. But we need targets, deadlines and political will to get there, not government ministers rubbishing alternative energy as if it is something which is out of reach. Technology forcing through appropriate legislation has worked elsewhere; Malta is also on planet earth as far as I know.

Ralph Cassar
Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party
spokesperson on Energy, Industry and Transport
Attard

Id-diskriminazzjoni politika ghadha maghna

August 18, 2008

Government presses Greens’ secretary general to relinquish teaching job – Victor Galea accuses government of political discrimination – Maltatoday

Aqraw l-artiklu shih:

http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2008/08/17/t1.html 

Nahseb ftit hemm bzonn kummenti. Wara t-tbissim u l-weghdi ta’ certi persuni fl-oghla karigi fil-pajjiz hemm l-id mohbija li taghmel minn kollox biex tkisser lill-avversarji politici bl-aktar mod viljakk.

Izjed kummenti huma superfluwi. Tista’ tikkuntattja lis-Segretarju Generali ta’ Alternattiva Demokratika – The Green Party, Victor Galea, fuq dan l-email: victorgalea@onvol.net jew http://victorgalea.blogspot.com

Kummenti ohra fuq il-kaz:

http://arnoldcassola.wordpress.com

http://carmelcacopardo.wordpress.com

http://mikes-beat.blogspot.com/

Villa Bologna decision: AD calls for more effort to protect open spaces

August 18, 2008

Alternattiva Demokratika Attard Local Councillor Ralph Cassar said that the decision about increasing the road width around the Villa Bologna gardens and restricting the height of buildings to two storeys is an improvement on the previous proposal for development in the area. ‘Earlier in February this year I had presented a motion for Attard Local Council to challenge the validity of the Central Local Plan, unfortunately this motion was not approved by the PN majority. However I had then presented another compromise motion concentrating particularly on the Villa Bologna case – this time round the Council confirmed it’s position that it preferred an open space instead of more apartments in the area.’

Ralph Cassar said:’In the past years I managed to convince fellow councillors of the need to preserve open spaces, a project to convert a garden behind the Attard Church into a parking area was thankfully abandoned, and an abandoned square in the Attard Housing Estate, again earmarked for a car park was repaired and kept as a square. Over 70 trees were planted in the area looking onto the edge of the urban built up area in the Wied Irmiedi Area and contacts are being made with MEPA with a view to solving the problems related to quarrying and dumping of construction waste in Wied Incita. Attard, like other villages and towns is overdeveloped, each and every area of open space is very precious.’

Carmel Cacopardo AD spokesperson for sustainable development and local government said: “whilst the MEPA decision to restrict development in the buffer area around Villa Bologna is an improvement it does not address the basic issue : that an area indicated for decades (since 1965) as an area to be retained as undeveloped had its designation changed overnight without consultation when the Local Plan for the Area was finalised.”

Separar ta’ l-iskart nhar ta’ Tlieta … prosit… ejjew intejbu s-sistema

August 6, 2008

Fl-ahhar gimgha ta’ Gunju bghatt ittra ufficcjali bhala Kunsillier biex naghmel xi mistoqsijiet dwar il-gbir ta’ l-iskart separat (karti, metall u plastik) nhar ta’ Tlieta.

 

 

F’H’Attard il-gbir sejjer tajjeb, ghalkemm avolja suppost it-Tlieta f’H’Attard suppost jinhareg SKART SEPARAT NADIF BISS f’boroz grizi apposta hemm min ghadu qed johrog skart iehor. DAN L-ISKART M’GHANDUX JINHAREG IT-TLIETA U L-KUNSILL BIS-SAPPORT SHIH TIEGHI UKOLL IDDECIEDA LI SKART IMHALLAT U MAHMUG MA JIGBRUX IT-TLIETA. JIBQA’ HEMM SA L-ERBGHA. 

 

 

 

Ha niftehmu car: il-maggoranza kbira tan-nies huma edukati u civilizzati bizzejjed biex jirrealizzaw l-importanza li li skart nadif u separat biss jingabar it-Tlieta – kemm ghal ragunijiet ambjentali u anke ghal ragunijiet ta’ sahha tal-hadiem li jgharblu l-iskart li jingabar. Hemm bzonn nkunu aktar responsabbli u nitghallmu li s-separar ta’ l-iskart huwa vantagg kbir ghalina u ghal pajjizna. Barra minn hekk il-flus iffrankati mill-gbir ta’ skart ‘mahmug’ nhar ta’ Tlieta jista’ jintuza ghal affarijiet ohra. Ftakar li l-flus li jintefqu mill-Kunsill Lokali, tajjeb jew inqas tajjeb huma FLUSNA!

 

 

Ghalkemm nemmen li l-gbir tat-Tlieta huwa bidu TAJJEB HAFNA xtaqt aktar informazzjoni dwar xi jsir mill-iskart. S’issa m’ghandhix risposta ghal hafna millmistoqsijiet li saru.

 

 

 

Test ta’ l-ittra:

 

 

General Manager

WasteServ

 

Sinjur,

 

Bhal ma taf, H’Attard hija l-lokalita fejn ir-residenti l-aktar li qeghdin jikkoperaw u jiehdu sehem b’mod pozittiv hafna fil-programm ta’ separar ta’ l-iskart. Biex inkomplu inzidu l-informazzjoni fuq ir-riciklagg u l-importanza tas-separar ta’ l-iskart bi hsiebna nippubblikaw artiklu ta’ informazzjoni fir-rivista tal-Kunsill.

 

Jidhrilna li ghandna ninfurmaw lir-residenti kemm nistghu biex inkomplu inhajjruhom jibqghu jikkoperaw. Ghaldaqstant il-Kunsill jixtieq din l-informazzjoni:

 

  1. X’inhu l-persentagg ta’ l-iskart kollu li s-soltu jikkonsisti f’karti, metall u plastik?
  2. Xi kemm tikkalkulaw li qed jingabar minn dan l-iskart minn H’Attard?
  3. Kif jikkompara ma lokalitajiet ohra kemm f’Malta u anke f’pajjizi meqjusa avvanzati aktar bhall per ezempju l-Germanja?
  4. Galadarba l-iskart jigi separat mill-Wasteserv, x’isir mill-iskart? Jigi esportat? Fejn? X’isir mill-karti? X’isir mill-plastik? X’isir mill-metall?
  5. F’liema pajjizi jintbghat l-iskart separat?
  6. Qed jinstab uzu ghall-iskart jew qed jigi sempliciment mahzun ghalissa?
  7. Kif qed tigi finanzjata l-iskema? Min huwa l-‘polluter’ li qed ihallas ghall-iskema? L-importaturi tal-prodotti?

 

Nirringrazzjak bil-quddiem tal-kooperazzjoni tieghek u nispera li nicievi risposta halli nkun nista’ nghaddiha lill-Kunsill.

 

 

 

Ralph Cassar

Kunsillier

H’Attard

JPO represents Malta…

August 4, 2008

As you are reading this Malta is being represented by, amongst others, JEFFREY PULLICINO ORLANDO MP (PN), at a Commonwealth meeting in Malaysia …discussing:

 28th Small Branches Conference

Malaysia

3 – 4 August 2008
1st Plenary

Protecting the Environment: Water and Waste Management in Sustainable Development

2nd Plenary

Dealing with Conflicts of Interest and Corruption in Small States

3rd Plenary

Meeting the Challenges to the Holding of Democratic Elections

4th Plenary

Promoting the Interests of Small States in International Institutions

 

Further comment is superfluous…

Source: http://www.cpa-conference.org/news.asp