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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1989

MR BARNES POINTED OUT

THAT THE EXISTING IMMIGRATION POLICY HONG PERMITS A PERSON TO ENTER

KONG FOR EMPLOYMENT PROVIDING HE VALUE TO AND POSSESSED A SPECIAL SKILL, KNOWLEDGE OR EXPERIENCE OF

A POSITION TO NOT READILY AVAILABLE IN HONG KONG, OR THAT HE WAS IN MAKE A SUBSTANTIAL CONTRIBUTION TO THE ECONOMY OF HONG KONG.

"I UNDERSTAND THAT QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL

ENCOUNTER

IN ENTERING HONG

NORMALLY EMPLOYMENT.

PROBLEMS

ACCOUNTANTS DO KONG ΤΟ TAKE

NOT UP

ARISE,

"THE NEED TO RELAX IMMIGRATION PROCEDURES

HE SAID.

DOES NOT

THEREFORE

SITES FOR NEW COAL-FIRED POWER STATION BEING SOUGHT

THE

HAVING REGARD TO THE LONG LEAD TIME INVOLVED IN

POWER CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW COAL-FIRED

STATION, THE SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS NAD ESTABLISHED A WORKING GROUP TO EXAMINE

CHINA PRELIMINARY SUGGESTIONS MADE BY

LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY ON

POSSIBLE SITES, THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL WAS INFORMED TODAY

(WEDNESDAY).

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, THE HON PIERS JACOBS, SAID THIS WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM THE HON TAM YIU-CHUNG.

IN A

ΤΟ MEET

BUILD A

WOULD

TO ENSURE SUFFICIENT GENERATING CAPACITY IS AVAILABLE THE FORECAST DEMAND FOR ELECTRICITY. CHINA LIGHT AND POWER COMPANY

THAT (CLP) HAD INFORMED THE GOVERNMENT

1'T WOULD LIKE TO FURTHER COAL-FIRED POWER STATION IN THE TERRITORY WHICH COMMENCE OPERATION IN 1996, MR JACOBS SAID.

"CLP'S PREFERENCE FOR A COAL-FIRED STATION IS BASED ON THE COMPANY'S EXPERIENCE AT THE CASTLE PEAK POWER STATION,

HAS SHOWN COAL TO BE RELIABLE. ECONOMIC AND CAPABLE OF MEETING ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS.

ACCEPTABLE

"WHILE THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT COMPLETED ITS EXAMINATION OF CLP'S FORFCASTS AND PROPOSALS, JT RECOGNISES THAT. NO MATTER HOW SOUND THE CASE FOR A NEW POWER STATION. TO FIND A SULTARLİ. BE AN EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TASK,

HE ADDED.

SITF WILL

MR JACOBS SAID THAT OF THE FIVE SITES INITIALLY SUGGESTFO, THREE OF THEM WHICH LOCATED AT GRUFF HEAD, CRESCENT ISLAND AND HIGH ISLAND WERE ALL IN THE EAST OF THE TERRITORY IN COUNTRY PARKS AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION REASONS WERE NOT FAVOURED.

AT PAN

KAS

FOR

ON

THE OTHER TWO SITES PROPOSED WERE

LAU SOUTHERN LANTAU AND AT BLACK POINT NEAR THE CASTLE PEAK POWER STATION.

"WHILE CLP