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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1991

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FINAL CONSULTANCY REPORT ON KCRC TRAIN NOISE READY BY YEAR END

IT

IS

AVAILABLE

CORPORATION NOISE THE

THE GOVERNMENT WILL ASK THE KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY

THE FINAL (KCRC) TO RELEASE

CONSULTANCY REPORT OF TRAIN

YEAR, BY THE END OF THIS ASSESSMENT WHEN

IN THE LEGISLATIVE SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT, MR MICHAEL LEUNG, SAID COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

CHI-WOOD, MR IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON FUNG

IN LEUNG SAID THE FIRST DRAFT OF THE CONSULTANCY REPORT WAS AVAILABLE

ABATEMENT MEASURES WERE JULY THIS YEAR BUT FURTHER STUDIES OF NOISE REQUIRED.

THE ENVIRONMENTAL

A

BOARDS

TO PROGRAMME

WOULD BE

ON PUBLIC CONSULTATION, MR LEUNG SAID AFTER

HAD WORKED OUT AND KCRC PROTECTION DEPARTMENT

DISTRICT MEASURES, IMPLEMENT THE NOISE MITIGATION CONSULTED ON THEIR IMPLEMENTATION.

0

APPROVAL FOR POWER STATION'S CONSTRUCTION EXPLAINED

IN

IN TWO STUDIES, THE LIGHT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS COUNCIL IN OCTOBER EXECUTIVE

THIS YEAR APPROVED IN PRINCIPLE BLACK POINT, RESERVATION OF A SITE OF APPROXIMATELY 120 HECTARES AT TUEN MUN FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW LARGE THERMAL POWER STATION.

THE

INFORMED

THE SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC SERVICES, MRS ANSON CHAN, THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL THIS TODAY (WEDNESDAY) IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION FROM REV THE HON FUNG CHI-WOOD.

EIGHTY-SIX

OF THE SITE WOULD BE RECLAIMED HECTARES

FROM THE

SEA, SHE SAID.

MRS CHAN SAID THE FIRST STUDY WAS A TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSALS CONTAINED IN CHINA LIGHT AND POWER'S GENERATION PLAN FOR THE PERIOD 1990-1999.

THE ASSESSMENT, WHICH WAS UNDERTAKEN WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF OVERSEAS EXPERT CONSULTANTS, EXAMINED THE COMPANY'S FORECAST OF GROWTH DEVELOPMENT IN DEMAND FOR ELECTRICITY DURING THAT PERIOD AND THE BEST STRATEGY FOR MEETING THAT DEMAND.

"ON THE BASIS OF THIS STUDY THE GOVERNMENT IS SATISFIED THAT IN FOR CLP ΤΟ ORDER ΤΟ SAFEGUARD A RELIABLE SUPPLY, IT IS NECESSARY

THE LATTER CONSTRUCT A NEW LARGE THERMAL POWER STATION SOME TIME IN HALF OF THIS DECADE," THE SECRETARY SAID.

A SECOND STUDY WAS CARRIED OUT TO IDENTIFY THE SITE FOR THE NEW POWER STATION.

MOST

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