Jul 17 - The GSD Raises Concern About The LNG Power Station's Proximity To The Hospital
The GSD says the project for the use of LNG at a power station, so close to the hospital, schools and homes is of critical importance.
They believe the extent of GSLP/Liberal mismanagement of this project has become more obvious following the interview on GBC of Lloyds Register's Nick Brown by Stephen Neish.
A spokesman for the GSD said: “Incredibly, even now, Lloyds Register has not been commissioned to produce a Safety Report. They are conducting a scoping study, for which terms have not even been agreed yet, for the possible production of a safety report by either Lloyds or a third party.
“We already know from a letter to the chronicle by Minister Cortes that despite assurances to the contrary in the past, the Government does not have safety reports and did not have them when they handed out the multi-million pound contract for the LNG power station. The interview with Nick Brown revealed that they had not even scoped the work for such a safety study three years after announcing the project!
“When quizzed on the Chief Minister's statement that Lloyds Register had told him that the safety report published by the GSD had been substantially redacted or that it was based on single skinned storage tanks, Mr Brown said that this information was subject to contractual confidentiality. Therefore Lloyds Register could not have given the Chief Minister this information. The fact is that the report was neither substantially redacted nor based on a single skin tank and the Chief Minister has been caught out again.
“Mr Brown also said that there was no absolute way to eliminate risk; a confirmation of what the GSD has been saying throughout.”
Leader of the Opposition, Danny Feetham added: "We are further from a power station now than we were four years ago and the GSLP/Liberals have failed the people of Gibraltar by mismanaging this critical project and shown such incompetence that they should not be trusted to manage the risks going forward. They have shown a staggering ignorance of both project and safety management. This mismanagement indicates that the GSLP/Liberals have lost sight of what constitutes good governance. It seems that the safety of the people of Gibraltar is a sacrifice they are willing to make in pursuit of their blind political agenda to do nothing that the previous GSD Government had decided upon."
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