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Works on the dust road leading to Comino’s Blue Lagoon were stopped earlier last month by the Environment Resources Authority due to damage on the surroundings and the permit application is still under review.
The authority said it gave the contractor a verbal Stop Order to halt works in the sensitive Natura 2000 site because they were “not satisfactorily contained within the indicated area and impacted on its surroundings”.
It subsequently requested the submission of a nature permit application that is still being assessed.
The road project on Comino was first flagged by independent candidate Arnold Cassola, who described it as “the destruction of Blue Lagoon with infrastructural works to build hamburger and granita kiosks”.