Zebbug
Flimkien Ghall Ambjent Ahjar would like to commend MEPA for the recent scheduling of the salt-water wetlands of tal-Maghluq and is-Simar, areas which support unique ecosystems which would eventually be lost without such scheduling. The environment...
Damage to Heritage
SURVIVED WAR, DAMAGED BY DEVELOPER FAA deplores in the strongest possible manner the damage done to the old Tal-Grazzja Chapel in Sliema by intensive building works taking place some feet from its walls. This new case of over-development damaging...
Enough is enough
In an area where two landslides provoked by injudicious excavations have already taken place, the inconceivable has happened, a third landslide has been allowed to take place. This large site backed by unstable rock (gebel tafli) at Xemxija was an...
NGOs and residents file court case against Rationalisation Plans
Four environment NGOs, Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar, Friends of the Earth, Ramblers and Graffitti, along with residents from all over Malta and Gozo whose homes have been affected by the Government Rationalisation Plans, last week filed a court case...
Who is MEPA trying to fool?
On the 13 th of January, Ms Sylvana Debono said in The Times: “MEPA is not in the business of fooling anyone”. How strange then that MEPA’s reply to the Auditor’s report on the scandalous case of the Windsor Terrace permit issued by MEPA’s...
Uprooting of Aleppo Pine Trees in Mdina Road
‘Flimkien Ghall-Ambjent Ahjar’ (FAA) has been contacted by concerned members of the general public regarding the go-ahead given for the uprooting and consequential destruction of four beautiful old Aleppo Pines at Mdina Road Attard. Since Aleppo...
Building regulations
Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar ( www.ambjentahjar.org ) welcomes Government’s plans to ‘discipline’ developers with the introduction of new construction regulations, as Environment Minister George Pullicino was reported to have said at the...
Feudal Planning
The Coalition of Environment NGOs congratulates all those who contributed to the decision to prevent the building up of the Mgarr ix-Xini side of Ta Cenc; Din l-Art Helwa, AD Gozo, but especially Minister Pullicino who took this vehe limiting of...
VALLETTA : Getting the Priorities Right
Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar (FAA) would like to draw the public’s attention to some positive results, finally, on the environmental front. We are happy to note that the opinions expressed vociferously by the public are being taken into account, at...
Why Bother to Consult?
The Coalition of Environment NGOs has submitted to Mepa its comments on the major development being planned at Hondoq ir-Rummien, Gozo. Three months ago NGOs were invited to listen to the fine words and promises at the Sustainability Conference...