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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1988

WHITE PAPER ON POLLUTION OUT IN JULY

JULY 1989

A

WHITE PAPER ON

GRAHAM BARNES,

THE GOVERNMENT WILL PRODUCE BY POLLUTION, THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS, THE HON SAID IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

SPEAKING IN THE RESUMED POLICY

OF INTENT WILL BE A STATEMENT STRATEGIES, OBJECTIVES AND TARGETS, WITH A

THEM.

DEBATE, MR BARNES SAID THIS WHICH WILL SPELL OUT GOVERNMENT'S TIME-TABLE FOR ACHIEVING

SPECTRUM OF

AIR POLLUTION:

NOISE,

WHOLE IT WILL COVER THE WATER AND WASTES, HE SAID.

RIGHT KIND OF PLANS DECIDE WHETHER WE

"I AM CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN PRODUCE THE AND TARGETS, BUT CO-OPERATION AND COMMITMENT WILL SUCCEED OR FAIL IN THEM, HE SAID.

H

NOT ONLY FROM MAJOR HE SAID CO-OPERATION MEANT CO-OPERATION

WHOSE POLLUTORS IN THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS, PARTICULARLY THOSE

WERE UNACCEPTABLE; EFFLUENTS, WASTES, AIR EMISSIONS AND NOISE LEVELS

BETWEEN GOVERNMENT BRANCHES BUT ALSO CO-OPERATION AND CO-ORDINATION AND DEPARTMENTS, AND FROM EVERY MEMBER OF THE COMMUNITY.

AND SUPPORT WOULD HAVE MR BARNES PURPOSE HAD BEEN

ALTHOUGH PUBLIC AWARENESS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMMES WERE GROWING, THE GOVERNMENT

AWARENESS PROGRAMMES, TO UPGRADE POLLUTION EDUCATION AND

PROVISION FOR THIS SAID, NOTING THAT INCREASED CONSIDERABLY.

FINANCIAL

ALL "WE MUST ALSO DO

POLLUTING

WE CAN ΤΟ HELP

INDUSTRIES TECHNOLOGY AND METHODS, SO THAT WHENEVER POSSIBLE TO ADJUST THEIR

POLLUTING THEY CAN CONTINUE TO PLAY THEIR PART IN THE ECONOMY WITHOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, HE SAID.

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"COMMITMENT MEANS THE FIRM RESOLVE

то FINANCE AND IMPLEMENT BOUND OUR PLANS, OVERCOMING THE FRUSTRATIONS AND SET-BACKS WHICH WERE

MR BARNES SAID. TO OCCUR, AND DRIVING TOWARDS OUR OVERALL OBJECTIVES,

"I

ΤΟ THE ENVIRONMENT "BUT MOST OF ALL, WE WILL NEED COMMITMENT FROM THIS COUNCIL IN CREATING EFFECTIVE AND POSITIVE LEGISLATION, ADDED.

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HE

THE ADMINISTRATION

IS WHICH THE

WHILE THE WHITE PAPER IS BEING PREPARED, COMMITTED TO THE PROGRAMMES OF EXPENDITURE AND LEGISLATION GOVERNOR OUTLINED IN HIS POLICY SPEECH, MR BARNES SAID.

"IN

MASSIVE THIS

CRASI!

OF PROGRAMMB THERE WILL BE RESOURCES BETWEEN

DEVELOPMENT ON WHICH WE WILL BE SET,

CHOICES REGARDING FUNDS AND LAND

부탁

AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS, HE ADDED.

INFRASTRUCTURAL

VERY DIFFICULT ECONOMIC, SOCIAL

"'IN THESE

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