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Friends of the Earth Malta together with the environmental NGOs Din L-Art Helwa, Nature Trust (Malta), Birdlife Malta, Light Pollution Awareness Group and Ramblers Association today expressed their opposition to the recently proposed new TEN -T road pro...
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Friends of the Earth Malta welcomes the funds allocated in the Budget 2009 for environmental projects and alternative energy. However Friends of the Earth Malta (FoE Malta) states that the rebates for solar panels and the insulation of roofs and windows a...
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Recommendations by Environmental NGOs
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On Monday 27th October 2008, a coalition of environmental NGOs presented the Prime Minister with a report on MEPA reform. The document was drawn up by Catherine Polidano on ...
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Friends of the Earth Malta is pleased to note that Government is finally taking the initiative on the renewable energy front by allocating money to develop an array of wind turbines that will eventually supply around 4% of our energy requirements.This can...
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Friends of the Earth Malta welcomes the motion related to Climate Change as presented by, Hon. Leo Brincat yesterday in Parliament. We believe that this is the way forward to make sure that the current, and subsequent, governments are committed to act on ...
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Throughout summer of 2006, the authorities justified the Rationalisation scheme to use more countryside for construction purposes by claiming that this would seal shut the development zones and prevent further building Out of Development Zone (ODZ). B...
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Friends of the Earth Malta donated €150 worth of books to the Birkirkara Local Council. These books will now form part of the resources found at the Birkirkara Civic Centre library. The books deal with local and international environmental them...
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During the third week of September, many EU countries celebrated the European Mobility week. During this week, people are encouraged to be “in town without my car†as the initiative’s motto says. Since 2002 this event has been growing f...
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Friends of the Earth Malta is glad to note that the labour spokesperson for the environment, Mr. Leo Brincat is taking political action on climate change, in particular the proposal to pass a Private Members' Bill at Parliament level. We believe that ...
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Friends of the Earth together with seven* other environmental NGOs today called upon MEPA to publish online the fresh plans submitted for the application to extend the existing hotel at Ta’ Cenc in Gozo. In a statement, the NGOs called on MEPA to h...
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A record 1,050 objections have been sent to MEPA to protest over plans by St John’s Co-Cathedral Foundation to extend its museum, the NGOs Flimkien Ghall Ambjent Ahjar and Friends of the Earth said today. The foundation is proposing to create an un...
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Friends of the Earth Malta is concerned over the way the transport issue has developed recently. The NGO deplores the violence and illegalities which occurred during the protests. The NGO urges all political parties to unite on environmental issues such a...
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Friends of the Earth Malta together with the environmental NGOs Birdlife Malta, Gaia Foundation, Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar, Light Pollution Awareness Group, NatureTrust (Malta) and Ramblers Association of Malta, today strongly criticized the MEPA de...
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Further to the letter ‘Packaging waste collection system’ by Chris Ciantar and published on The Sunday Times (April 27th), Friends of the Earth (Malta) would like to point out the following issues. In his letter, the newly appointed Permanent...
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Further to the article published in The Sunday Times, 30th March 2008, “Waste Separation Postponed†Friends of the Earth (Malta) would like to point out that only minor parts of the PR text issued by the organisation were quoted in this articl...
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Friends of the Earth Malta would like to express concern at the recent developments related to the postponing of the introduction of weekly separate waste collection from households. The reason given by the local press is that, though, local councils, ful...
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Thirteen prominent Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) from environmental, social and cultural sectors in a joint statement today urged Prime Minister Dr. Lawrence Gonzi and the Leader of the Opposition Dr. Alfred Sant to endorse the full implementation...
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Friends of the Earth Malta notes with interest the wide range of proposals for the environment made by all the political parties contesting the 2008 general election. Taken at face value most of the proposals are commendable. Unfortunately, those by the t...
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A Europe-wide climate campaign launched on Wednesday 27 February by Friends of the Earth Europe and the Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke aims to get governments and the European Union to commit to annual cuts in emissions to fight climate change.The Big Ask ...
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Climate change is the single biggest environmental threat facing our planet. Burning too much coal, oil and gas increases the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which in turn heats up the planet. On the 27th of February Friends of the Earth Malta will be...
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