In a statement this evening FAA said that “following MEPA’s claims re Wardija permit PA 05784/08, this photograph shows the original farmhouse, dating back hundreds of years, which is being mistaken for a production unit of 14,400 chickens in 1988.”
FAA continued that it “maintains that legalistic defence of the indefensible does not do credit to the effort to save Malta’s dwindling natural environment.” FAA concluded, “MEPA’s own Case Officer had strongly recommended refusal of this permit requiring illegal excavation of Blue Clay – had the EPC upheld this recommendation, the area could have been returned to its original state before the farm was built abusively without permission of the landowners. Instead we have once again rewarded abusers and missed an opportunity to salvage a unique corner of Malta’s dwindling natural heritage.”