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July 23 - Feetham Explanation of GSD Tackling of Electricity Generation ‘Feeble’ Claims Government

govtThe Government has accused the Leader of the Opposition’s attempts to ‘explain  away the failure of his Government to tackle the problem with electricity generation and infrastructure are feeble and unconvincing’.

A No.6 statement touched upon Mr. Feetham’s recent GBC interview, during which he insisted that the Manx Energy Report, made public yesterday, was dated 2004/2005 instead of 1999, as the Government originally claimed it was, ‘in order to justify the fact that the GSD put plans in motion by 2007’.

The statement goes on to say that Mr. Feetham ‘confirmed that the business plan placed before the banks by the previous GSD Government included a 5% increase in electricity per year for 20 years in connection with the funding of their power station at Lathbury Barracks.

‘When this is coupled with the GSD policy of abolishing the subsidy, it would have represented a huge increase in the price of electricity to the end user. It says much about the attitude of the GSD that they went to a general election in 2011 knowing that the price of electricity was going to increase year on year and yet they said nothing to the electorate. This was clearly an unpleasant surprise that they intended to spring on unsuspecting voters had they won.’

Speaking on the matter, Fabian Picardo noted that, ‘we finally know where we are with the GSD. They would have abolished the subsidy and they would have increased the price of electricity in order to make the taxpayer pay for their own failures to tackle the question of power generation and distribution.

The GSD shares the blame with itself for its inaction on the new power station and for misleading the public and businesses in Gibraltar as to the cost of its plans for power generation!’