Alternattiva Demokratika have voiced their support for the  Gharb residents who are objecting about the development of a mushroom farm a few metres away from a residential area, the Dbiegi crafts village and the Kempinski resort in San Lawrenz.

Carmel Cacopardo, AD spokesperson on sustainable development and local government said that after examining the relevant technical documents it is clear that not enough chicken manure is produced in Gozo to satisfy the needs of the proposed mushroom farm. This means that chicken manure will have to be transported from Malta.

AD spokesperson for Gozo, Victor Galea, added that this means that the project should be sited elsewhere, close to the same farms who can supply the same project with the necessary amounts of manure without transportating it and so it is away from residential areas. "The project has no place in Gharb and probably not even in Gozo," he said.

The PDS (project description statement) considers a large number of alternative sites – meaning that none of the sites identified till now are suitable. The site at Gharb, like the one at Xewkija, from which the farm is moving out of, is too close to a residential area.