The Nationalist Party today said it had passed on documents to the Auditor General which relate to the building of the new power station in Delimara.

The documents were passed on after the Opposition Leader said in Parliament last week that the same proposal for the building of a new power station had been made to the Nationalist government in 2009. Dr Simon Busuttil had said that it is clear that there had been a pre-electoral agreement on the project.

Last Sunday, The Malta Independent had reported at length on how an identical power station project, LNG tanker and all, had been pitched to the PN government.

In his letter to the Auditor General on 30 July, 2015, Dr Busuttil referred to a request made by Opposition spokesmen Mario de Marco, Tonio Fenech, Claudio Grech and Marthese Portelli for an investigation into the manner by which the government had reached a deal for the building of the new power station.

This request had been followed by another letter dated 21 August 2015 in the light if reports that the government had given an unprecedented state guarantee of €360 million for the project to be carried out.

Dr Busuttil also referred to his speech in Parliament in which he said the PN had been approached with a similar project. It is evident, Dr Busuttil said, that the same proposal had been made to the Labour Party before the election, and that therefore some agreement had been reached when the PL was still in Opposition.

The PN submitted a document that it had been given prior to the election, showing that the proposal was identical to the one the Labour government had accepted. The companies proposing the project, Gasol and GEM, were the companies that were eventually selected.

The document, Dr Busuttil said, raises serious concern that the specifications made by Enemalta Corporation for the power station were influenced, if not dictated, by whoever had an interest in the project.

Simon Busuttil's letter