HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
————一九八九年七月十九日
香港立法局
19 July 1989
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The 1982 report also contained certain recommendations which Government did not accept. They were that PHIs should be dealt with in a specific statutory framework; that a statutory Hazardous Installations Committee should be established and that PHIS in Tsing Yi should be removed to north Lantau.
And now, regarding the 1989 report, the recommendations of the 1989 report concern mainly three subjects improvements in land use planning, adoption of technical measures to improve the safety of the installations on Tsing Yi and adoption of various technical and traffic management measures to reduce transport risks.
On land use planning, the consultants confirmed the Government's decision that there should be no PHI development east of the Tsing Yi main ridgeline and that the ridgeline should be vigorously maintained to preserve the natural barrier between PHIs and most other development. The Administration has accordingly taken steps to ensure that the ridgeline stays. There are also plans in hand to move the three oil depots, namely, Hong Kong Oil, Mobil and CRC Nga Ying Chau in north and east Tsing Yi away from their present locations and I will mention this later in reply to Mrs. LAU's third point. The Tsing Yi Outline Development Plan is being revised and the revision will be taken further in the light of the 1989 report, the Port and Airport Development Study, studies on Route 3, Container Terminal 8 and other relevant studies.
Fire Services Department together with the Gas Standards Office of the Engineering and Mechanical Services Department and the Environmental Protection Department are now discussing with the operators of installations to persuade them to adopt the technical safety measures, such as installation of gas leakage detection systems, and improvements to management systems, as recommended by the consultants. Where appropriate, these can be imposed upon the operators as licensing conditions under the Dangerous Goods Ordinance and Government is confident that all the recommended measures are in fact enforceable.
To reduce transport risks, Government is examining in detail the practicability of the consultants' recommendations. As a start, LPG vehicles will be given special approval to follow a shorter route off the island away from the local residents as far as possible.
To ensure that the recommendations of the 1989 report will be implemented effectively, an ad hoc inter-departmental steering group has been set up under the Lands and Works Branch to monitor progress of the follow up actions.