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Title: | Dire need for enforcement |
Authors: | Deidun, Alan |
Keywords: | Environmental protection -- Malta Malta Environment and Planning Authority Marine ecosystem management -- Malta |
Issue Date: | 2002-10-24 |
Publisher: | Allied Newspapers Ltd. |
Citation: | Deidun, A. (2002, October 24). Dire need for enforcement. The Times of Malta, pp. 1-3. |
Abstract: | Enforcement has always been our islands' proverbial Achilles heel, with laissez-faire and complacency fuelled by the need for electoral votes stamping out any effective attempt at curbing this phenomenon - the environment is no exception to this. The Malta Environment and Planning Authority's ranks have been buoyed by recent recruitments and from this I take the cue to highlight the dire need for enforcement in our country. The monthly statistics issued by MEPA are quite elaborate in the message they convey - it issues between 50 and 100 stop and enforcement notices, on average, each month. Quoting from the figures for September, 94 such notices were issued, and a staggering 41 sanctioning notices were meted out. The term sanctioning is quiet elusive - although derived from Latin sanctio, meaning a decree or law, it resides uncannily close to another dictionary word, 'sanctimonious', which means to make a pretence of holiness. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/36508 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacSciGeo |
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