SEP 25 '86 11:22 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
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Wen Wei Po said China Light would invest $2 billion in the construction of the electricity supply network.
The SCM Post reported that the Government will wait for a report from the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell before deciding whether HK'a emergency services would be used in the case of a major accident at the Daya Bay nuclear plant.
The paper quoted John Yaxley, Secretary for Economic Services, as saying yesterday that it would be impossible to evacuate HK's six-million residents if a major accident occurred at Daya Bay.
In a related article, the Standard said that China will throw open the door of the Daya Bay nuclear plant for inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, as the power station will have little military value.
The Express said in an editorial that the Chinese authorities should make public relevant statistics relating to the economic viability of the plant so that HK people would be able to assess the feasibility of the project. It hoped that Chinese leaders would actually consider resiting the plant before it was too late.
Tin Tin Daily New asked the people to consider calmly whether there was a need to develop nuclear energy because the supply of coal and oil would become depleted one day.
A commentator of the paper, Yik Chun, said that the most practical way of resolving the question of nuclear safety and removing public fears would be to have the plant shelved or resited.
Ming Pao reiterated its call that the Daya Bay plant should be built farther away from HK.
A HK Economic Journal commentator said that up to now, the Chinese Government had still failed to come up with adequate reasons to back up the need to build the plant at Daya Bay. China's decision to go ahead with the nuclear project would damage her image as it was against public opinion.
A Centre Daily News columnist asked anti-nuclear activists to stop doing things that were against China as it had been affirmed scientifically that the Daya Bay plant was very safe.
Wednesday, September 17: An opinion poll recently conducted by five Lagco members showed that 73 per cent or 6 470 respondents were still against the construction of the Daya Bay plant, the media reported prominently.
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