Electrogas power station is inaugurated as the 'cancer factory' is shut down

The new Electrogas power station, conceived in controversy and delivered two years late, was inaugurated this evening with a promise of cleaner air as the use of heavy fuel oil was consigned to history. The new power station was inaugurated minutes after the 25-year-old Delimara I power station was switched off. That too had been built amid political controversy in 1992, the controversy at the time being about its location. Prime Minister Joseph Muscat switched off the old plant and switched on the new one in the presence of minister Konrad Mizzi. “We are finally closing down a cancer factory and now we are producing clean energy. This comes on the same day when it was announced that the country has a surplus of €100 million,” Dr Muscat told guests. "This was a dream, not a fairytale. A dream for the future of this country. We have closed an ugly chapter of heavy fuel oil, and started a new one of cleaner, safer energy," he said. He said this milestone following the reduction of power tariffs by a quarter, giving a boost to the economy. It also followed an exercise which had seen Enemalta pulled back from the brink of bankruptcy. “Soon the tall chimney, the last symbol of...