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WEDNESDAY EDITION
WEDNESDAY • 7 MAY 2014 • ISSUE 363 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY
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Editorial - PAGE 10
JAMES DEBONO
THE crucial agreement between
the ElectroGas consortium and
the Maltese government, through
which the consortium will be
providing a substantial part of
Malta's energy needs for the next
18 years, will be signed this week.
"The new power and gas project
is progressing as planned," a
spokesperson for Energy Minister
Konrad Mizzi told MaltaToday
yesterday, after Nationalist depu-
ty leader for parliamentary affairs
Mario de Marco on Monday's Re-
porter on PBS repeatedly asked
Minister for the Economy Chris
Cardona whether the government
had signed the agreement with
ElectroGas.
Cardona evaded the question,
insisting that the government was
abiding to its schedule of decreas-
ing electricity bills as from this
year.
The government reduced util-
ity bills by 25% in March, a pledge
that was Labour's major plank
during the 2013 elections and
also conditional on the construc-
tion of a new plant fired by lique-
fied natural gas (LNG).
Gas supply agreement
to be signed this week
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