Mizzi calls on Auditor-General to intervene in power station 'problems'

Labour MP Joe Mizzi said today that he has asked the Auditor-General to intervene immediately to ensure that the government did not take over the power station extension from BWSC before the plant performed reliably. Mr Mizzi said in parliament that it was worrying that the government was dismissing problems during testing of the eight power station engines as being 'normal'. It was unacceptable, he said, that there had been problems in emission abatement mechanism and cooling, among other sections, with the cylinder heads in two of the engines needing to be dismantled. Mr Mizzi said that it should not be the people who had set the specifications and made the equipment choices who should now decide whether or not to accept the hand-over of the plant. Independent consultants should be engaged for the purpose, he insisted.