1 comment.ADPD accuses Government of being “hell bent” on commercialising Comino
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Despite being shelved two years ago, a project to build build a 136m-long concrete pier at the Blue Lagoon (PA4833/20) is back on the agenda, after an application was submitted by the Ministry for Gozo earlier this year.
ADPD’s Carmel Cacopardo, said that the Party condemned the Government’s scheme to build this pier, accusing it of being “hell bent” on commercialising Comino, and challenged the ERA and the Environment Minister to speak up.
ADPD questioned the Government’s commitment to a “wellbeing first vision when it continues to trample over nature and our natural heritage.”
“Comino, a Natura 2000 site, must be well managed,” Cacopardo said. “There can be no such thing as a balance between development and nature in Comino, when so-called balance merely means building up Comino and commercialising it until it has been squeezed dry for private profit.”
He argued that, “achieving sustainability in Comino should mean limiting tourist numbers and rehabilitating the land according to good conservation practices.”
Cacopardo called on the general public and NGOs “to continue rallying together against the encroachment and destruction of Malta’s third island. Once something is gone when it comes to heritage or environment, then it is gone for good.”
“ADPD will continue to speak out whenever the common good is threatened by speculation and backroom deals and will continue to oppose sinister backroom deals which undermine all the good work done by those who truly work for a better tomorrow, whether they are in the public or the private sector,” he said.
“Comino must not be sacrificed for the benefit of a few,” said Cacopardo. “Comino is yet another victim of Maltese Governments’ hypocrisy – while paying lip service to wellbeing they consistently destroyed open spaces under one pretext or another – from the infamous 2006 extension of the development zones to the giving away of public land to private interests and strong lobbies today.”
Photo by Alain Salvary
And than they preach and lecture us to go green. Why Ghajnsielem council is not doing a damn thing about it. The Mayors uncle let the sale of Chambray happen and this one is letting the sale of Comino. Shame on them.