SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1986
DAYA BAY ISSUE TO0 COMPLICATED FOR REFERENDUM
THE ACTING GOVERNOR, SIR DAVID AKERS-JONES, SAID TODAY (SUNDAY) THAT A REFERENDUM WOULD NOT BE A SATISFACTORY WAY TO DEAL WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE DAYA BAY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.
ANSWERING QUESTIONS FROM REPORTERS AFTER THE COMMUNITY CHEST'S +BIKE FOR A MILLION+, SIR DAVID SAID: +1 DON'T THINK YOU CAN DECIDE THINGS LIKE THIS BY REFERENDUM. IT'S NOT A SATISFACTORY WAY OF DEALING WITH SUCH A COMPLICATED SUBJECT REALLY.+
ON LEGCO'S TWO FACT-FINDING MISSIONS, SIR DAVID NOTED THAT THEY HAD A VERY THOROUGH ITINERARY.
+50 I WOULD HOPE THEY WOULD COME BACK BRINGING WITH THEM THE MPRESSIONS OF NOT SO MUCH OF EXPERTS, BUT OF THE ORDINARY CITIZENS OF HONG KONG, WHAT THEY WOULD EXPECT TO FEEL AND FIND OUT IF THEY HAD GONE ON THIS FACT-FINDING MISSION THEMSELVES, + HE SAID.
ASKED ABOUT THE VALUE OF THESE TRIPS, SIR DAVID SAID THEY WERE ESSENTIALLY FACT-FINDING TRIPS.
+THEY ARE NOT GOING AS EXPERTS. THEY'VE MADE THIS QUITE CLEAR. THEY ARE GOING AS INTELLIGENT PEOPLE, GETTING THE VIEWS OF INTELLIGENT PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRIES THAT THEY VISIT.+
SIR DAVID SAID WHEN THE DELEGATIONS COME BACK THEY WOULD MAKE A REPORT NOT ONLY TO THE GOVERNMENT BUT ALSO THE PEOPLE OF HONG KONG,
SIR DAVID DISAGREED WITH A SUGGESTION THAT THE DELEGATIONS WOULD ONLY COLLECT POSITIVE RESULTS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS.
HE SAID: +NO, I THINK THEY HAVE MADE IT QUITE CLEAR IN VISITING AUSTRIA FOR EXAMPLE WHICH HAS IN FACT STOPPED BUILDING NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS, SO I UNDERSTAND, AND THERE IS A LOT OF CONCERN IN AUSTRIA ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS.+
SIR DAVID SAID THE DELEGATIONS WOULD BE BACK BY ABOUT THE THIRD WEEK IN AUGUST, +SO THERE SHOULD BE PLENTY OF TIME TO HEAR WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY.
+BUT ESSENTIALLY, AS WE'VE SAID MANY TIMES BEFORE, THE POWER STATION IS NOT BEING BUILT IN HONG KONG AND IT'S NOT OUR DECISION IN HONG KONG WHETHER TO BUILD IT OR NOT.+
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