Dealing with Environmental Crime

published July 9, 2011















One comment on “Dealing with Environmental Crime

  1. Your well researched and well written article makes every citizen of these islands who has the good of the country at heart, indeed shiver, the more so when the government of the day, opposed such proposals by the European Union for measures against environmental crime. As you clearly underlined, these measures are for the good not only of the EU members states but also for the EU citizens.
    If the Maltese Islands had a government who had a social fabric, it would be the first one to endorse such legislation on environment crime, considering that the impacts on the country are mainly from pseudo eco entities surrounding us, both on southern Europe and also on the north African side. The fact that the Malta Government opposed such legislation, and more so dragged its feet in enforcing it to the extent that Malta is facing infringement proceedings, makes one ask in whose interests is the government acting. If it was the citizens, it would be as explained above, it would be in the forefront for such measures. Either government is moving towards a capitalist policy every day, now almost having lost all the social conscience, or else it is bereft of expertise on such matters. Considering that you said that most of such environmental crime is undertaken by corporate bodies, some pseudo eco ones, government seems that it does not want to rock the boat where corporations, and business is concerned. As as now customary it want to leave well alone. Can one be blamed for thinking that as we say in Maltese, government does not want to idardar l-ghajn li jixrob minnha. I believe government has a lot to explain to the people why it has taken such a negative stand on such an issue to the extent that it is facing infringement procedures The people have a right to know why Government is opposing such environment crime measures.


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