‘Protected’ trees butchered at it-Tokk Following Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar’s court action to prohibit MEPA from permitting the intended uprooting of the Ficus trees at it-Tokk, Gozo, MEPA has confirmed to the court that it will not issue such a permit. Claiming they were causing damage, Victoria Local......
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Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar understands Gozitans’ need for better accessibility, however building a bridge will not solve all Gozo’s problems; FAA has always maintained Gozo needs an effective drive to create high-end employment coupled with the upgrading of ferry transport, roads and public transport. Service companies......
More DetailsThe environmental provisions in this year’s budget are random, lacking in coherence and planning. They seem no more than a half-hearted effort to fill the total lack of environmental provisions in the draft budget – a Freudian slip revealing the lack of importance that this Government accords to the environment. Undertaking......
More DetailsTokk trees in happier days Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar asks court to stop removal of trees at Victoria’s It-Tokk square Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar (FAA) have filed a warrant of prohibitory injunction in the Gozo Court in a bid to stop the uprooting of trees as part of an EU-funded embellishment project......
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Quarry at Ta’ Muxi, Qala, Gozo The Case Officer’s claim that “there are no particular concerns for the renewal of permit” contrasts sharply with the objections by Qala residents who have for years suffered the polluting traffic of heavy trucks passing through the narrow village streets instead of the bypass as......
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The proposal to build three hotels, ruining the beautiful Xghajra-Mwiegel-San Anard-Zonqor coastline by further cementification, instead of rehabilitating it ecologically, is of grave concern. A hotel at Smart City could make sense, and a sensitive conversion of Fort Leonardo could be accepted as long as it respects the......
More DetailsE-NGOs Ramblers Association, Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar and Friends of the Earth, note that Dr Michael Falzon, Parliamentary Secretary for the Environment, has recently stated that Government has in the last months talked to the representatives of the Armier squatters more than once. This was not good news; indeed......
More DetailsDestruction of Trees at Nadur In 2006 the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) launched a campaign to plant one billion trees to reverse sustainability problems. By 2009, 7 billion trees had been planted including in London, Berlin, Rome, Milan, Amsterdam, Marseille and Barcelona, even though they are well......
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Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar appreciates Gozitans’ need for improved accessibility, that is why it had proposed free preferential ferry-boarding for bona-fide Gozo residents. The plans to create a new airstrip at Xewkija need to be studied in the light of long-term benefits to Gozo. Given that both the helicopter and......
More DetailsComino – public land up for grabs (please sign our petition hereunder) MEPA’s Structure Plan states: “The countryside and the coast are two of the nation’s most valuable natural resources. Recognising this, the Planning Authority will rigidly control development of the countryside and coast in general.” The......
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