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Government misleading public on power station’s toxic waste – Opposition
The Opposition’s spokesperson for the Environment Leo Brincat hit out at government saying that it was misleading the public when it states that the Delimara power station will not generate toxic waste.
5 February 2011, 12:00am
Miriam Dalli
Miriam Dalli
1 min read
In his statement, Brincat stressed that the new power station create a tonne of heavy fuel oil sludge daily which the plant would be unable to burn from its machine pistons.”
Brincat claimed that when this week he asked Finance Minister Tonio Fenech whether government was in a position to establish how toxic waste generated from the power station would be transported, Fenech replied that it will not be generating such waste.
“When the Minister chose to speak this way, he chose to mislead both the general public and the Parliament,” Brincat stressed. “Fenech chose to conveniently leave out the daily tonnes of heavy fuel oil sludge which the plant is not able to fire out.”
Brincat said that “government has so much to hide” that each time the Labour Party or other environmental experts would point out that MEPAwill not be including regulations on how to dispose of the sludge in the environmental permits, government chooses to remain silent.
“This is a point of serious concern even because on must not forget the dangerous sodium sulphate waste, which will amount to some 30 tonnes of daily waste, which the country needs to dispose of,” Brincat said.
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How can this be so?
There will always be a resdue from any facility that burns a product: the laws of chemistry can not be circumvented regardless of any statement to the contrary.
Here is a solution (here are some solutions!)
Item 1...Oil Sludge...This is not an issue for it can be treated and reduced to its component chemicals fairly easily.
Item 2...Sodium Sulphate...30 tonnes per day! Great we will deal with it fairly easily. It can be converted to useful chemicals readily. I know of a company that will take it off your hands in the near future in Malta.
