AUG 07 86 14:29 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
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About 90 per cent of the 306 respondents to an opinion survey conducted by the Oriental Daily News were against the Daya Bay project. Only 10 per cent, who were all male, supported the project.
The China News Service in Peking yesterday issued part three of the nuclear safety regulations approved by the State Council earlier this month.
The Express said editorially that one should not attach too much importance to the Daya Bay nuclear plant feasibility study report because the feasibility of the project must have been confirmed before the project was given the go-ahead. The paper reiterated its call on the Chinese Goverment to heed HK opinions and shelve the nuclear project.
Sing Tao Jih Pao said that the safety aspect of the project should be studied by specialist bodies and experts. One would miss the crux of the issue if one attached too much importance to the views expressed by the public. The paper said that democracy must not be misunderstood. One should realise that organising mass movements in a rash manner would do HK and the individuals concerned more harm than good.
Centre Daily News columnist Lai Chap-see said that an anti-Daya Bay project mass rally would be held in either early or late September.
The It would not take place on September 18 as reported earlier. columnist said the Federation of Trade Unions would conduct a survey among its 170 000 members on the Daya Bay project. The anti-nuclear lobby was watching this development closely as it thought that this might be a move calculated to counter the anti-Daya Bay project signature campaign.
HK Economic Journal columnist Yu Kan-yin said that while it was normal in a diversified society to have differences in views, the confrontation between different groups of Legco members on Daya Bay was a result of mutual distrust. The columnist expected more confrontation between different groups of Legco members in the future.
Centre Daily News hit out at Ming Pao for saying in its editorials that HK would become a dead city should there be a nuclear disaster one tenth the magnitude of the Chernobyl accident. The paper said the editorials were not making serious comments but were uttering
nonsense.
Friday, July 25: The meeting yesterday between Legco delegates who are to go on overseas study missions and five local nuclear experts was prominently reported in the news media.
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