Labour MP Marlene Farrugia is once again criticising the government she forms part of on environmental issues, saying that Gozo’s fate has been sealed and that the concept of eco-Gozo has been sold.

She was writing on Facebook soon after the news was made public that a disused quarry in Qala will be converted into a cruise liner terminal together with luxury apartments. The area in question is a protected marine zone.

Dr Farrugia said that the Maltese and Gozitan people must think about what they really want.

“If we want our islands to retain their unique character, there is no need for more mega projects on protected land in outside development zones,” she wrote, making an obvious reference to the development of a university at Zonqor Point.

“If, on the other hand, the majority of people in Malta and Gozo want the country to be suffocated by more buildings and concrete in the countryside and on our shores,” she said, without completing the sentence, but clearly hinting that this would not be her choice.

She added that she was saying this because the electoral manifesto on which Labour was elected “does not reflect the reality of the government’s vision”, she wrote.

In other posts she wrote that the Qala project was not mentioned in the PL’s electoral programme, and that it appears that the eco-Gozo concept has been sold.

“Brace yourselves,” she wrote. “Gozo’s fate is sealed as well”.

It is the second time in two weeks that Dr Farrugia has criticised the government that it is not following its electoral programme. On 14 May, she wrote that the government is not delivering what it promised on the environment.