Affordable energy

A maltastar report on the need for an alternative energy policy was picked up by the Tehran Times, Iran's international daily:

Malta urgently needs a holistic energy policy which is an affordable, ensures an adequate energy supply, causes the least harm to the environment and is a national policy which transcends the partisan divide. This, in a nutshell, was the message given by Labor’s two deputy leaders, Charles Mangion and Michael Falzon, when they addressed a seminar entitled Towards an Energy Plan for Malta which was organized by the Labor Youth Forum (FZL).

Mangion said that the energy policy must be based on a holistic long term plan which has clear objectives backed by a program to finance it. Mangion emphasized that the policy must not belong to just one political party but must be a national policy owned by the whole country which safeguards the present energy needs of the country and as well as the interests of future generations..

Michael Falzon began by pointing out that over the past years many policies for the energy sector were drawn up but hardly any of them, if any at all, were put into effect with the desired results. Falzon maintained that the aim for Malta in the energy sector is to ensure an adequate supply at a reasonable price while ensuring that this causes the least possible harm to the environment. The Labor deputy leader for party affairs emphasized that Malta needs to take up the use of alternative forms of energy seriously and moves from words to concrete action on this issue...