WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1991
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EPD ACTED TO REDUCE CONFUSION
CLAIMED
THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT HAD ACTED CORRENTLY
A PRODUCT SURROUNDING CONFUSION TRYING TO REDUCE THE ADVERTISEMENT TO BE ABLE TO REDUCE POLLUTING EMISSION, FOR PLANNING, ENVIRONMENT AND LANDS, THE HON GRAHAM THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
IN
IN
THE SECRETARY BARNES, SAID IN
RAISED BY REFUTING AND ENABLE
MR BARNES SAID THIS IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO QUESTIONS THE HON MRS ELSIE TU ON A STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE DEPARTMENT THE PRODUCT'S CLAIMED ABILITY TO REDUCE EXHAUST EMISSIONS ALL PETROL ENGINE. VEHICLES TO OPERATE ON UNLEADED PETROL.
WAS, GOVERNMENT
MR BARNES SAID: "THE
MISLED
AND REMAINS CONCERNED ANXIOUS AND
WHEN CONFUSED THAT MOTORISTS, ALREADY PERHAPS A LITTLE
THAT BELIEVING
THEIR INTO BE WOULD CHANGE, FACED WITH A VEHICLE NEEDED THIS SPECIAL DEVICE, WHEREAS IN REALITY 70 PER CENT
UNLEADED PATROL VEHICLES NEED NO ADJUSTMENT TO RUN PERFECTLY WELL ON AND ANOTHER 17 PER CENT ONLY REQUIRE SOME SMALL ADJUSTMENT.
OF
ΤΟ LINK IT IN THE PROGRAMME, WOULD CONTINUING ΤΟ
"THE PROMOTERS OF THE DEVICE, WHO SOUGHT ADVERTISEMENT WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S UNLEADED PETROL LEAD TO MOTORISTS BEING UNJUSTIFIABLY CONSERVATIVE AND RUN LEADED PETROL FOR THE WRONG REASONS."
A
TELEVISION
THIS
MR BARNES WAS REFERRING TO
EARLY FEBRUARY PRODUCT WHICH APPEARED IN GOVERNMENT'S GREEN BOOKLET "THE MOTORISTS GUIDE WAS PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED.
OF ADVERTISEMENT YEAR
THE IN WHICH TO UNLEADED PETROL"
A
THE PRODUCT COULD REDUCE THE ADVERTISEMENT MADE CLAIMS THAT
CENT AND ENABLE ALL
ENGINED PETROL
POLLUTING RMISSIONS BY 60 PER VEHICLES TO SWITCH TO THE USE OF UNLEADED PETROL WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS,
MR
DEPARTMENT PRODUCTS.
NOT
THAT THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OUT POINTED BARNES
OF
OR RECOMMENDING TESTING IN WAS
THE BUSINESS
OF THE "HOWEVER, THE DEPARTMENT MADE A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT
STAFF OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF IT'S PROFESSIONAL PRODUCT BASED ON THE
COMBUSTION, PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROCESSES INVOLVED IN PETROL ENGINE AND CONCLUDED THAT TO THE BEST OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE, THERE WAS NO SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE TO BACK UP THE CLAINS MADE FOR THIS PRODUCT.
HARD
ALSO CHECKED THE DEPARTMENT "THE
PROTECTION ENVIRONMENTAL
THE ROYAL AEROSPACE STATUS OF A DOCUMENT BEARING THE LETTER-HEAD OF
BY THE FIRM ESTABLISHMENT (RAE), FARNBOROUGH, UK, WHICH WAS OFFERED IN QUESTION TO SUBSTANTIATE ITS CLAIMS," HE SAID.
"ADVICE RECEIVED
FROM
THF
UK
MINISTRY OF
DEFENCE'S RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT ON THE STATUS OF THIS DOCUMENT STATED THAT ASSESSMENT DID NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFICIAL TRIAL AND WAS NOT ON A SOUND SCIENTIFIC BASIS.
(MOD) THE
CONDUCTED
/"THE RESULTS
: