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Everybody knows that the councillors of the Sannat local council are represented by the Malta Labour Party and the Nationalist Party. Nothing wrong with that so far, but to have a council which is not able to take an official stand against the destruction of the picturesque plateau of Ta’ Cenc which is being threatened by further unsustainable developments – this is not acceptable.
The idea of developing this magical plateau has long been earmarked. In the past years, long before the local council was established, people united and protested and somehow the development of building up an exclusive tourist village on this site was postponed.
However, lately both the Prime Minister and the Leader of Opposition agreed together and are both suggesting the destruction of this natural site for the sake of building a golf course.
Even in his Budget 2006 speech, the Prime Minister insisted on the need of a golf course at Ta’ Cenc, while the Labour Party in his discussion paper on environmental policy, Dr Sant highlighted the need for a golf course at this site. More than once Ta’ Cenc was specifically mentioned on other occasions by both the traditional parties’ leaders and other politicians from these two traditional parties.
Although both the Labour Party and the Nationalists stated that they are in favour of golf courses, however they emphasised that a golf course should stand alone and should not serve as an excuse for more building and speculation. But who is going to believe this? Everybody knows that no golf course is a money-spinner. It is the development around it which is the pot of gold. Destroying the last wilderness areas is a negligible sacrifice for those who expect to make millions from more buildings.
The only Maltese political party with a clear stand about this unsustainable development at Ta’ Cenc is the Green Party, Alternattiva Demokratika (AD).
Just imagine the difference a candidate of Alternattiva Demokratika, the Green Party, on Sannat local council can make!
Tony Azzopardi
New York, USA
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