Update 2: Claim and counter claim on Mepa discussion on Ghallis waste treatment plant

Update 2 - Adds comment by Parliamentary Secretary Ian Borg Former resources Minister George Pullicino said in Parliament this morning that Parliamentary Secretary Michael Farrugia, who is responsible for Mepa, had stopped the Authority’s board from discussing a pending application for a waste treatment plant in Ghallis. He said the incident happened when Dr Farrugia attended a meeting of the board. He said €50m in EU funds had been earmarked to the planned Ghallis plant, which was to be similar to that at Sant’Antnin in Marsascala. (Parliamentary Secretary Michael Farrugia later denied the claim and said this was an invention. However Mr Pullicino stood his ground, saying Dr Farrugia instructed then Mepa chairman Austin Walker on March 14 to stop a board meeting while it was hearing a presentation about the project. The application was also not put on the agenda of the board meeting o March 21, when a final decision was due.) In a speech in parliament, Mr Pullicino asked if the government would follow up the waste strategy prepared by the former government, and which the then opposition had not voted against. Would it follow up plans to generate energy from waste? Mr Pullicino...