Brincat accuses Minister of ‘intervening with MHRA’ to favour GreenMT

In a statement issued this afternoon, Brincat insisted that “certain statements and developments that took place recently led to more questions being raised than providing answers”.

“We have never been given an explanation why according to MHRA, they were allegedly encouraged by a particular Minister, who is not the Minister responsible for MEPA, to give due consideration to the services of a particular waste management company – that owned by GRTU when they still did not have the necessary licence in their hands,” Brincat charged.

“During the same occasion quite early during the same year, the same Minister had given them to understand that the licence was going to be issued in the near future,” Labour’s main spokesperson for the Environment added.

Brincat lambasted the fact that Minister Pullicino had failed to present in Parliament as requested a copy of “financial arrangements and every other arrangement that Wasteserv entered into as a receiving facility for GRTU-owned Green MT especially when one considers that Wasteserv is financed by public funds”.

He also lambasted Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi since on 11 October 2010, Gonzi failed to inform Parliament, as he had been requested to do, about “for how long has Green MY has been licensed in the waste packaging sector and on which dates has this licence been renewed, as well as for which period of time the same company was not covered by an operating licence in this sector”.

While the PL did not have any interest in favouring or obstructing the commercial interests of the commercial companies involved in this sector, “one cannot but note with preoccupation that the Government and a majority of PN-led Local Councils were apparently putting their weight in a manner that it seems like the balance is going only one way”, Brincat concluded.