MEPA stops Enemalta’s Comino works

An enforcement order against the trenching works carried out without a permit was immediately issued by the authority against Enemalta.

The works were notified to MEPA by Nature Trust’s environmental educator Annalise Falzon who was heading a group of Danish visitors, whose visit to Comino was disturbed by the noise of drilling.

MaltaToday is informed that Enemalta was excavating the trench to lay an optic fibre cable which was to pass from one end to the other end of the islands passing through sensitive ecological areas. 

As a Natura 2000 site, Comino forms part of a network of European nature reserves that merit special protection on a European level due to their ecological importance. Comino is also designated as a Special Area of Conservation (SAC).