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objections it has stated its willingness to carry supplies in 400, 000 volt cables, which reduces the number of lines which would be required to two.
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Choices of Sites
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The sea access and cooling water requirements have made the choice of a suitable site very difficult. Government, with the previous agreement of the Company, had planned that any future power station should be sited in the Pillar Point area beneath Castle Peak, although subsequently the site had been shifted westwards to Tap Shek Kok, which faces directly out to the Urmston Road. However, the marine access to this site for ships of the size now envisaged would be difficult and expensive (as frequent dredging would be required) and the quality of cooling water taken from this area, which is right in the Pearl River estuary and is sometimes heavily silted, might produce stoppages in electricity production. This, at best, would have the result of transferring the load to more expensive units elsewhere and, at worst, of causing power cuts.
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At the request of the Company, other sites have been examined; only two seem to be capable of providing the conditions in which the Company could operate. These are indicated on the plan at Annex A of this memorandum. They are:
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Wan Tsai (Jones Cove)
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The Company has suggested a site on the eastern side of the Peninsula. It has good sea access for large ships and the water is very clean and suitable for cooling. But the use of the site for a power station is totally contrary to good planning. The site is in the very heart of beautiful natural scenery, which is to be developed for countryside recreation. It is possible that Government may wish to recommend that this site be levelled to provide fill for reclamations at Sha Tin and Tai Po. If so, once the work was completed, the site would either be planted, or made available for tourist or recreational facilities in keeping with the Government's plans for the future of the area. In neither event would the exceptional amenities of the area be permanently damaged. But a power station of this enormous size would dominate much of the most beautiful part of the Sai Kung Peninsula whatever the Company did to try to blend the building with its environment.
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