HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
19 July 1989 香港立法局 ——————————一九八九年七月十九日
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Fifthly, to ensure that the policy objectives set out in the White Paper are achieved without causing undue hardship, we urge that there should be close consultation with the industries, particularly where new control measures are concerned.
Before I close, Sir, I would like to draw to the attention of the Secretary and the Director of Environmental Protection to some observations made by some industrialists who have had extensive dealings with the Environmental Protection Department in the past. It is their impression that there is no real ability yet in the department to tell industry up front in exact terms what standards one have to achieve. The up-front advice one receives vary from person to person and very much depend on whom one talks to. A frequently adopted modus operandi is for the department to request from industry a consultant's study on the problem. Even then, the process of negotiations leading to the final solution involves a lot of subjectivity depending on how many levels of the departmental hierarchy one has to negotiate through. I hope these are only isolated individual experiences and I urge strongly that attempts be made to try to draw up definitive up-front criteria for individual factories to follow.
Sir, I support the motion.
鍾沛林議員致辭:主席先生,政府在「對抗污染莫遲疑」的白皮書中首先指出,我們正生活在一 個十分繁忙而擠擁及受到嚴重污染的城市中。除非現在就採取行動,否則環境將會變得更污糟、 更嘈吵、更有害。我覺得,這個是遲來的警告。事實上環境污染日趨惡化,早已成為許多香港人 所身受到和關心到的公害問題。
白皮書說明,政府打算在今後十年內動用二百億元「對抗污染」。我認為,從環境保護的需要 而言,當局確應「莫遲疑」,儘快制定整個政策及採取實際措施,加速實行這個防污抗險的重大 計劃。
根據報告,本港現時每日産生22500公噸的垃圾,200萬公噸污水和工業廢水,車輛和 工廠噴出的有害氣體亦多達1100百公噸,此外還有多方面隨時發出的過量噪音。在550萬 居民中,我們經常有300萬人受空氣污染所影響,有200萬人受噪音滋擾和困擾,有數以百 萬計的泳客冒着感染病菌的危險在海上游泳。可以想像,面對這種龐大、複雜而惡劣的污染情況
環保當局無疑已經做了許多事,否則污染的危害程度更令人無法容忍。
現在,政府正以現行法例為基礎,配合本港環境規劃的工作進展,有意擴大空氣污染管制範圍 及重點增設監察站。主要原因是,空氣污染的法定管制雖然已取得很大成就,但白皮書顯然未表 完全滿意,為了確保空氣質素到達及保持環境規劃的起碼標準,要求環境保護署設法加強對包括 工廠噴出過量黑煙及車輛排出有害廢氣的管制。這些建議,當然有益市民健康,但應注意空氣防 污的經濟算盤,尤須顧到有關工業的需要的技術指導及實質資助。