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€0.90 WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION WEDNESDAY • 12 FEBRUARY 2014 • ISSUE 351 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Editorial - PAGE 11 Newspaper post 50% OFF CURRENT WINTER ITEMS UP TILL 15TH FEBRUARY ONE-OFF 50% SALE ON CURRENT WINTER ITEMS, INCLUDING APPAREL, BAGS, ACCESSORIES, AND SELECTED DENIM. VISIT OUR OUTLETS IN; MERCHANTS STREET, VALLETTA & & ST ANNE'S SQUARE, SLIEMA MON-SAT 10AM - 7PM | 22584400 Probe finds over 1,000 tampered smart meters No increase in soot levels from HFO MATTHEW VELLA AND JURGEN BALZAN A study by air quality experts from the University of the West of England, has confirmed that heavy fuel oil, the residue from crude oil refining that fires the die- sel engines provided by BWSC, did not lead to an increase in particular matter from the new Delimara power station turbines. A study on atmospheric particular mat- ter (PM) 2.5 and 10 – the tiny pieces of solid or liquid matter that are smaller than 2.5 micrometres, such as soot parti- cles, or less than 10 micrometres – found no particular increase in emissions in a pre-2013 and post-2013 study on air qual- ity in the most affected towns of Marsax- lokk and Birzebbugia, which live under the shadow of Delimara power station. Yesterday, former finance minister To- nio Fenech accused Labour's pre-election claim that Delimara was "a cancer fac- tory" as false accusations that vindicated the former administration's decision to run the new diesel turbines on HFO. Labour famously dubbed Delimara's new turbines a factory of cancer, due to the controversial selection of Danish firm BWSC and Vassallo Builders Group to supply turbines running on HFO, rath- er than make a switch to gas. The new government will build a new 200MW plant that will run on liquefied natural gas and convert other diesel en- gines to gas, in a bid to provide energy at cheaper prices to consumers and busi- nesses – an electoral pledge for Labour. The baseline analysis of all data from 2009 to 2013 by the Air Quality Manage- ment Resource Centre (AQMRC), of the University of the West of England, Bristol has revealed no evidence to suggest that Delimara was contributing to elevated concentrations of particulate matter at Birzebbuga or Marsaxlokk due to HFO. AQMRC was appointed by the Malta Environment and Planning Author- ity (MEPA) and a monitoring committee composed of local council represenat- tives, following a competitive tendering process, to assess the impact of using HFO at Delimara Power Station. Delimara currently runs eight medium- speed combined cycle diesel engines on HFO. CONTINUES ON PAGE 4 Three Enemalta employees suspended • Energy Minister 'angry' over rampant electricity theft detected by specialised control room set up within the Corporation Air quality study says no increase in particulate matter detected from use of heavy fuel oil at Delimara power station THE Commission for the Administration of Justice has reconfirmed its original findings of misbehav- iour committed by Judge Lino Farrugia Sacco, to force a discussion on the judge's impeachment back to the House of Representatives. Parliamentary secretary for justice Owen Bonnici yesterday confirmed that MPs in the House Busi- ness Committee would decide on the way forward so that the House debates the impeachment of Farrugia Sacco. The Malta Olympic Committee president was found to have misbehaved by staying on as MOC president in breach of the judiciary's code of ethics, and for exposing himself to the public's mistrust in an undercover sting by Sunday Times of London re- porters posing as ticket resellers. But the decision by the Commission for the Admin- istration of Justice, which did away with the need for a new investigation after the original impeachment motion was declared 'dead', can be expected to be contested by the judge and his legal team. The original motion was declared to be invalid af- ter the Speaker of the House confirmed protests by Farrugia Sacco that the motion's proposer, Lawrence Gonzi, was no longer an MP. JUDGE'S IMPEACHMENT Commission reconfirms original findings in Lino Farrugia Sacco case Serbian, 27, murdered over argument after landlord switched off electricity supply FULL STORY BACK PAGE FULL STORY PAGE 3 CONTINUES ON PAGE 3