Minister of Resources and Rural Affairs George Pullicino of Malta

Also, perhaps, when mentioning "political blackmail", Mr Pullicino was referring to hunters.

Mr Pullicino is assuming that all will be fine if a committee of one or two environmentalist organisations and hunters' organisations come to a concensus.

Following the 1998 election, in which the Nationalist Party returned to power, Pullicino was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry for Home Affairs; he was subsequently named as Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry for Home Affairs and the Environment in March 2002.

Pullicino was appointed as Minister for Rural Affairs and the Environment after the April 2003 general election, with a portfolio that included the Agriculture and Fisheries sectors, Rural Development, the Environment and the Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA.

Pullicino was retained in his position in the March 2004 Cabinet reshuffle with a portfolio that was expanded to include implementation of a Waste Management Strategy for the Maltese Islands.

Following the March 2008 general election, which the Nationalists won by a narrow margin, Pullicino was retained in his post, but the Malta Environmental Planning Authority (MEPA) was retained by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi.

according to MEPA’s own Audit Office.

In 1980, Mr Pullicino was elected to the Executive Committee of the Maltese Christian Democrat Students Movement, eventually occupying various posts including that of President from 1984 to 1987.

In 1987, Mr Pullicino was elected General Secretary of the Nationalist Party's Youth Movement.

Following the Nationalist Party victory at the General Elections of September 1998, Mr George Pullicino was appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry for Home Affairs and the Environment.

George Pullicino is married to Lourdes and they have a daughter, Mattea.

According to The Times (February 27), Environment Minister George Pullicino said that the government was merely abiding by the mandate given to it in the EU referendum, in which the Maltese people voted to join the EU.

Mr Pullicino said if the 40 per cent figure is proved to be correct, then the next Structure Plan will have to be designed in view of the fact that much of the land available for construction has not yet been developed.

At present the Structure Plan is being revised and Mr Pullicino said it should be completed by the end of 2001.

Mr Pullicino said the plan should cover a period of 10 years, rather than 20 as is being envisaged by the Planning Authority.

European Union membership will "force Malta" towards better environmental standards, Parliamentary Secretary George Pullicino said yesterday.

Mr Pullicino was addressing a conference on "EU, Malta, Planning and the Environment" held at the Planning Authority.

Mr Pullicino said that EU membership will improve the quality of life of all Maltese citizens.

As an example of this, Mr Pullicino said that Ireland managed to obtain EU funds for the restoration of its traditional pubs.

On the theme of the conference, Mr Pullicino said that Malta lacks planners and the Diploma in Planning trains future planners.

George Pullicino said he has set up an audit board to assess just how many trees will be involved.

Pullicino took his cue from a memorandum sent to the island's political parties by school children taking part in a nationwide ecological project.

Mr Pullicino is Minister for Resources and Rural Affairs.

General Secretary of the Nationalist Party’s youth movement.

Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry for Home Affairs and the Environment.

Minister for Rural Affairs and the Environment.

Waste Management Strategy for the Maltese Islands.

The Honourable George Pullicino was also invited but could not attend since he is Poznan, Poland.

Minister George Pullicino said that the aim behind this scheme is to enhance and promote tomato products produced locally.

Speaking at Edible Oil Refining Company, in Marsa, Malta -- the company which is already collecting oil from catering establishments, as well as lards and animal remains from the abattoir and transforming them into biodiesel -- Mr Pullicino said an agreement between WasteServ and Edible Oil Company would lead to a system of collecting oil from households in chosen localities.

Mr Pullicino said the government was setting an example as diesel powered cars and machines in a couple of entities were already running on biodiesel.

George Pullicino has been a Nationalist MP since September 1996.

George Pullicino was born in Sliema in 1964.

Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi’s announcement that on Tuesday that, if re-elected, he will take over responsibility for the reform of MEPA is nothing but a clear and unequivocal admission that environment minister George Pullicino has been a total failure at his job.

In Parliament, Mr Pullicino said that Mepa had not received any reports of a quantity of dead fish having been washed up at St Thomas Bay on Sunday, as Dr Vella had said.

Mr Pullicino said in an adjournment speech yesterday that it was important that such instances were reported immediately on the Mepa emergency numbers.

Mr Pullicino said the activities of the fish farms, blamed by Dr Vella for the dead fish, were regularly monitored by a company which was awarded a tender by Mepa.

Mr Pullicino said that fish used as feed at the fish farms sank and the fact that the fish noted by Dr Vella were floating indicated they have been fish killed through fishing using explosives near the sewage outfall.

Another very salient point raised by Minister Pullicino is that people must realise that green energy is more expensive to produce than conventional type energy.

Minister George Pullicino said climate change was mostly brought about by human activity.

Mr Pullicino said Malta needed to utilise new clean fuels.

Mr Pullicino has been responsible for what goes by the name of planning in Malta for the past several years.

How will his Bill prevent his colleagues from running roughshod over heritage and environmental considerations as Minister Ninu Zammit has done, building over the Roman port in Marsa, turning Wied Babu, #379;urrieq into an urban promenade and wasting public money in absurd embellishment of a rare, wooded area in Cottonera? Mepa auditors reports fully document all this.

by conducting feasibility studies on a waste-to-water project.

EU) referendum, in which the Maltese voted to join the EU.

manages MEPA, and will admit that autonomy can have its drawbacks.

If the Nationalist Government is a warship cruising into battle, George Pullicino is positioned on the prow, fending off flak from all quarters: hunters, environmentalists, disgruntled developers, residents of areas earmarked for development.

Pullicino is a newcomer in the Cabinet having served as Minister for the first time during this legislature.

Back in 2005, when he introduced the eco contribution, George Pullicino had vowed to “kill the use of plastic bags before they kill US.

Maltese carbon dioxide emissions are set to rise further from the already elevated levels, Malta’s Rural Affairs Minister George Pullicino said on June 3.

During a visit to the aquaculture centre at Fort San Lucjan, Minister Pullicino said that the progress being made in the field has brought more foreign investment to the country as well as the acknowledgement of Malta as one of the main centres in the Mediterranean in the industry.