The Environmental Safety Group has said that, given that the first local ship-to-ship LNG transfer took place in Gibraltar on Friday, it has called for Government to confirm that the right conditions are in place for this activity to be carried out.
The Opposition has said that it would have been obvious to anyone listening to the exchanges in Parliament on the power station and LNG, that the Government made the decision to locate a gas and diesel fired power station at the North Mole “without having any kind of risk assessment reports from experts on the supply and storage of LNG beforehand.”
The Government says that it considers that the only Members who should be ashamed of the way in which they are behaving in Parliament are the Opposition and, in particular, their current leader, Daniel Feetham.
The GSD has said that the suggestion from the Chief Minister that the reason for the adjournment of the Dr Giraldi Motion is because the Leader of the Opposition did not agree to take the Bill to establish the Gibraltar University on an urgent basis is “nonsensical” adding that his comment that the Leader of the Opposition is “paranoid” is “infantile" and “not worthy of response.”
The European Commission has today given assurances to Julie Girling, Member of the European Parliament for South West England and Gibraltar, that the lengthy border delays of recent years will become a thing of the past following the reconstruction of the vehicle and passenger crossing point between Gibraltar and Spain.
