‘Fake News And Fat Lies’: Jason Micallef On Ta’ Qali Gravel Debate
Jason Micallef has responded to the Ta’ Qali gravel debate calling it all a bunch of fake news and fat lies.
Over the last six days, personalities like Thomas Camilleri and Trudy Kerr have spoken out against Ta’ Qali’s dramatic transformation from grass to gravel, but in a post penned to Facebook, Micallef wrote “there are some who are after making money from clickbait, including some failed podcasters.”
“And others who cannot bear to see the success story that we have achieved with the greatest environmental and social regeneration that has ever taken place in Ta’ Qali,” he continued.
Micallef denied the rumours of trees being cut down, grass being removed and gravel and rubble being put down instead, individually calling them all fake news and big lies.
On the contrary to all we’ve been hearing, Micallef wrote that in Summer, the soil becomes dusty after all the grass dries up and can be a detriment to people’s health, especially for those with respiratory conditions.
“It was therefore that, as happens in similar national parks abroad, in the picnic area in Ta’ Qali a timely intervention was made where a material of fine sand and gravel was specially spread throughout parts of the picnic area to cut the enormous dust produced by the soil of the picnic area during the Summer season,” Micallef continued.
This sand and gravel is a specialised material that sprouts grass after it rains in Autumn and Winter and according to Micallef has been spread in Ta’ Qali every year since the picnic area’s inception.
“Therefore, what some are spreading is just FAKE NEWS and a big lie. As proof of all this, I am reproducing two aerial photographs of how the picnic area in Ta’ Qali has always been every Summer. It looks like a desert of soil.”
Jason Micallef ended his post by saying, “No FAKE NEWS or big lie will tarnish the success of the greatest green regeneration that has ever taken place in Ta’ Qali, which everyone is enjoying.”
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