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When Infrastructure Malta descended on a Dingli alley last year to pave a road through rural land, owners were shocked as they had not yet been informed that their fields were being expropriated.
It was only after a second attempt by the state agency to start work on the new road, stalled once again by activists, residents and farmers, that the expropriation process had kicked off.
Accounts given by landowners across the country suggest that is typical of the way Infrastructure Malta goes about expropriating land.
The proposed Dingli road had initially attracted environmental protests in October 2020, when workers turned up in Daħla tas-Sienja to connect it to San Ġwann Bosco Street.
On April 17, writing in this newspaper, ERA’s CEO, Michelle Piccinino, regaled us with a plethora of legal actions devised to afford protection to trees,
The short film In-Nani f’Art il-Ġganti is an exceedingly poignant look into the present moment. It invites viewers into a conversation in which two friends “negotiate a space full of webs of power” with the COVID-19 pandemic as a backdrop. The film’s writer and director,
Noah Fabri, speaks to
Lara Zammit about the ideas percolating throughout the production.
In-Nani f’Art il-Ġganti is a slow-paced short film revolving around a conversation between two friends who take a walk through the countryside during the fallout of COVID-19. What prompted you to create this short film? What are the ideas behind it?
A group of environmental and civic action NGOs have written to environment minister Aaron Farrugia, calling for the removal of Prof. Victor Axiak from his post as head of the Environment and Resources Authority.
The NGOs accused Axiak of “repeatedly and unashamedly during the last few years, acted and voted against the environmental wellbeing of this country.”
“Instead of acting as a guardian for our limited environmental resources, and duly guiding ERA to behave as an authority and regulator, Axiak has consistently chosen to ally himself with developers and roadbuilders, thus ignoring objections and concerns about conservation, but also public wellbeing,” the NGOs said in their strongly-worded letter signed by Extinction Rebellion Malta, Flimkien għal Ambjent Aħjar, Friends of the Earth, Malta Youth in Agriculture (MaYA) Foundation, Moviment Graffitti, Nature Trust, Ramblers’ Association, Rota, and The Archaeological Society.