Grit-blasting at the Palumbo shipyards, that is polluting the Cottonera area, is set to continue despite residents’ concerns over health risks associated with the airborne by-product of the ...

Six years after a clampdown against the alleged landfilling of grit blasting material under a 5,000sq.m concrete platform at the Palumbo shipyard, the Environment and Planning Review Tribunal has yet ...

A specially designed valve developed by Hodge Clemco greatly increases the safety of grit blasting operations by reducing the time taken for equipment to depressurise when it is shut off. On standard ...

Grit blasting at the Palumbo Shipyard will be allowed for a limited period and subject to strict conditions after the planning authority yesterday revised the ban imposed in December. The Malta ...

In reference to Stefan Buontempo’s letter on Palumbo Shipyard Ltd and the use of grit blasting (Private Vs Public Interest In Grit Blasting, January 28), I wish to make the following points. The ...

The stop notice on Palumbo's grit-blasting had been issued on 29 December 2010 following complaints received by MEPA, and the operator had been requested to propose mitigating measures to be adopted ...