Tag: Shanghai Electric
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Miriam Dalli is confusing premium with “price stability”
Minister for Energy Miriam Dalli replied to a parliamentary speech by Opposition MP Mark Anthony Sammut with a diatribe against the Opposition riddled with cliches and slogans including “peace of mind”, “state of the art”, and “we are doing even more” among others. She still can’t get into the mindset of a minister who is…
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Most of Malta’s gas is purchased by Electrogas not by the government
This is part of my ongoing investigation on Malta’s gas purchases and the total of €1 billion in subsidies that will be spent across three years to tamp down electricity and food prices. My latest piece was a recapitulation of the government’s losses on the purchase of gas via an oil-indexed link system. The latter…
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Miriam Dalli wants to buy a turbine from the Chinese for €40 million
Miriam Dalli’s track record as Minister for Energy has been catastrophic, to say the least. Consistently and regularly Miriam Dalli has made bad decisions that have cost the country hundreds of millions of Euros starting from her gas purchases at premium prices and ending with the lack of upgrade and maintenance to the distribution system…
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Narcissists wrecking the nation
I am sure there has never been in our history such a reckless and blatantly corrupt Minister who is so narcissistic that this minister proceeds to praise herself with propaganda instead of addressing a national crisis that she was responsible for that ultimately left people dead. There can be really no redemption for such crass,…
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Why is the government still issuing electricity and fuel subsidies?
Why is the Maltese government still issuing subsidies for electricity bills and fuel when the prices of natural gas and crude oil have crashed to levels even below the Russian invasion of Ukraine? The EU Commission has explained the obvious to the Maltese government that it has no legitimate reason why it should keep subsidising…
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Our secret energy policy
You would assume that after Malta came out of a national political crisis caused by the government’s corruption with the Electrogas contract, and during Europe’s current energy crisis, the Maltese government would come out with a new and sensible overhaul of our energy policy. Instead, it will be more of the same as the government…
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Wanted: A Responsible Government and Energy Policy
With Russia’s war on Ukraine, Europe has finally come to realise that it cannot depend on dictators or states which have no rule of law for its energy supplies. In recent years, bureaucrats, politicians and academics in Brussels and in our national governments have created nonsensical and irrational energy policies leading to today’s energy crisis:…