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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1991

ENTAILS SHA TIN, A

IN TWO STAGES, THE SCHEME WHICH WILL BE CARRIED OUT

PO AND TAI AT STATIONS PUMPING THE CONSTRUCTION OF

HARBOUR, TOLO 6.5-KILOMETRE LONG SUBMARINE PIPELINE IN LONG BRIDGE ACROSS SHING MUN RIVER, OTHER ANCILLARY WORKS AS THE 7.5-KILOMETRE TUNNEL.

SPECIAL

A MR BLAKE WAS PLEASED TO NOTE THAT SCHEME IS THE USE OF A TUNNEL BORING MACHINE FOR THE THE TUNNEL, WHICH ALSO PLACES A PRECAST TUNNEL LINING.

A 215-METRE WELL AS

OF

FEATURE

THE CONSTRUCTION OF

A MECHANISED SUCH THAT TIME FIRST THIS IS THE CONSTRUCTION, PROPOSED BY THE ITALIAN CONTRACTOR VIANINI HAS BEEN USED ON A GOVERNMENT CONTRACT IN HONG KONG.

METHOD LAVORI SPA,

OF

THE VICINITY CONSTRUCTION AND BLAST MEANS OF

THIS METHOD IS CHEAPER, CAUSES LESS VIBRATION TO

TWO-AND-A-HALF-YEAR AND REDUCES WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PERIOD TO TWO YEARS THAN THE CONVENTIONAL DRILL TUNNELLING.

To

IN

"THIS IS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE THAT THE GOVERNMENT IS RECEPTIVE IN SAVING ALTERNATE ('ONSTRUCTIVE METHOD FROM TENDERERS RESULTING

MR BLAKE SAID. COST AND CONSTRUCTION TIME,

FULLY IMPLEMENTED WHEN THE SCHEME IS TOGETHER WITH OTHER MEASURES UNDERTAKEN AS PART OF ACTION PLAN, ELIMINATE MOST OF THE POLLUTION SOURCES OF TOLO HARBOUR.

IN MID-1994, IT WILL THE TOLO HARBOUR

GOVT RESPONSE TO 98 OCTANE UNLEADED PETROL

DEPARTMENT (EPD)

A SPOKESMAN FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RESPONDED TO SHELL'S ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY (TUESDAY) ON THE OF 98 OCTANE UNLEADED PETROL BY EXPRESSING CONCERN THAT THE OIL INDUSTRY MAY FOLLOW SUIT.

INTRODUCTION

THE REST OF

THEN SAID,

SWITCHED ALREADY

MORE FOR THEIR

THE 46

TO 95 PETROL

THE SPOKESMAN HAPPEN, ΤΟ IF THIS WERE

HAS WHICH PUBLIC PERCENT OF THE MOTORING OCTANE ULP WILL HAVE TO PAY 21 CENTS A LITRE THAN THEY NEED TO DO.

PETROL

THAT THE

IN THE SPOKESMAN WENT ON TO EXPRESS DEEF DISAPPOINTMENT

AND THE GOVERNMENT

HAD AGREEMENTS REACHED BETWEEN THE OIL COMPANIES

PLACE, AT ALL ITS THE INTERESTS OF INTRODUCING UNLEADED PETROL IN THE FIRST BEEN BROKEN FIRST BY MORIL IN INTRODUCING LEADED

ORIGINALLY AGREED STATIONS RATHER THAN AT THE 40 PERCENT OF STATIONS

INEVITABLY WILL AND NOW BY SHELL. IN TAKING STEPS WHICH IT WOULD SEEM LEAD TO ALL THE 011, COMPANIES REPLACING 95 OCTANE ULP WITH 98 ULP.

/"WHAT WE

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