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ON

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1987

UNDERSTAND,

AT WHAT NO

NOT DIFFICULT TO HE ADDED THAT THIS WAS PERHAPS GIVEN THAT INDUSTRIALISTS WISHED TO AVOID PLACING THEMSELVES TBEY PERCEIVED MIGHT BE A COMPETITIVE DISADVANTAGE, WHEN THERE WAS COMPULSION ON THEIR COMPETITORS TO DO THE SAME.

I

MR CHAMBERS SAID PUBLICITY MATERIAL ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CONTROL ORDINANCE AND THE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL WATER POLLUTION

TENANTS OF THE ORDINANCE HAD BEEN WIDELY CIRCULATED AND PROSPECTIVE INDUSTRIAL ESTATES WERE PROVIDED

INFORMATION

ENVIRONMENTAL

REQUIREMENTS.

WITH

ON

THROUGH

EVERY OPPORTUNITY IS TAKEN TO

INDUSTRY BRIEF

AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL TRINICAL JOURNALS AND PROFESSIONAL SEMINARS, DIVISION OF THE HONG KONG PRODUCTIVITY COUNCIL, WHICH IS SUBVENTED BY

WITH THE ENVIRONMENTAL THE GOVERNMENT AND WORKS CLOSELY

PROTECTION OF DETAILED ADVICE ON INDUSTRIAL

DEPARTMENT, 18

PRIME A

SOURCE

POLLUTION PROBLEMS, HE SAID.

--

IT IS THE GOVERNMENT'S POLICY TO MINIMISE THE ECONOMIC OF POLLUTION CONTROLS AND TO EMPHASISE TO INDUSTRIALISTS THAT

PLANT ACCEPTABLE ENVIRONMENTALLY

IS OFTEN

IMPACT MODERN, MORE EFFICIENT AND

COST-EFFECTIVE.

"MOREOVER, UP TO 70 PER

CENT OF CAPITAL INVESTMENT

IN NEW

PLANT IS, 1 UNDERSTAND, TAX DEDUCTIBLE, HE ADDED,

MR

CHAMBERS

WAS PREVENTION

GIVEN

POINTED OUT

MUCH ALTHOUGH

ASSISTANCE

UNDERTAKINGS INDUSTRIAL TO OF POLLUTION WAS PART AND CONTROLS, EFFICIENT OPERATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE.

THAT

ADVICE AND

ON PARCEL

POLLUTION

OF

THE

**INDUSTRIALISTS

THEMSELVES MUST,

THEREFORE BE ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE POLLUTION WHICH THEY CAUSE. IT'S UNACCEPTABLE THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC COST OF SUCH POLLUTION TO BE A GENERAL CHARGE ON THE COMMUNITY RATHER THAN AN INDIRECT CHARGE THROUGH

THE PRODUCT;

THAT

то 19

THE EXTENT

FOR

THAT

ADDITIONAL

THE COST OF ARE COSTS

**

HE SAID.

INVOLVED, WHICH IS BY NO MEANS ALWAYS THE CASE,

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