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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1994

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STATE-OF-THE-ART

BEEN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY HAS

POLLUTING ENGINEERED INTO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS LANDFILL TO PREVENT THE ENVIRONMENT. CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF THE AIR, NOISE, GROUND WATER AND SEAWATER QUALITY WITHIN AND NEAR THE LANDFILL IS BEING CARRIED OUT TO ENSURE THAT HIGH ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS ARE MET.

OF

KONG'S WASTE

SPEAKING AT THE OPENING CEREMONY, MR WONG SAID THE OPENING THE LANDFILL MARKED A MILESTONE IN THE HISTORY OF HONG CONTROL AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION.

WOULD

HE SAID THE NEW LANDFILL WOULD BE SUPPLIED WITH CONTAINERISED WASTE FROM A NETWORK OF REFUSE TRANSFER STATIONS IN KOWLOON AND BE SERVICED BY FLEETS OF COLLECTION VEHICLES AND MARINE CONTAINER

VESSELS.

NOTING

THAT THE

CONFIDENCE

TO LANDFILL WOULD BE OPERATED

THE HIGHEST INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS AND WOULD BE

REPUTABLE WASTE RUN BY A MANAGEMENT COMPANY, MR WONG SAID: "I HAVE THEREFORE GREAT IN AND HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR A SUCCESSFUL PIONEERING PROJECT THAT WILL NEW SET AN EXAMPLE FOR THE SOUTH EAST NEW TERRITORIES AND NORTH EAST TERRITORIES LANDFILLS TO FOLLOW."

HOWEVER, HE STRESSED THAT LANDFILLING SHOULD NOT BE LOOKED UPON BETTER AS THE ONLY OPTION, ADDING THAT MORE COULD BE DONE TO EXPLORE WASTE DISPOSAL STRATEGIES.

ALSO PRESENT

ENVIRONMENT

SECRETARY FOR AT THE OPENING CEREMONY WERE THE PLANNING,

AND LANDS, MR TONY

THE EASON;

DIRECTOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, DR STUART REED; THE CHAIRMAN OF SWIRE PACIFIC LIMITED, MR PETER SUTCH, AND THE DIRECTOR AND GENERAL OF SWIRE BFI WASTE SERVICES LIMITED, MR LIONEL KRIEGER.

MANAGER

ILLEGAL BEAR PARTS TRADE IN HK UNDER CONTROL

* * * * *

WITH THE

THE PARTS

AND IMPLEMENTATION OF STRICT DOMESTIC MEASURES STEPPING UP OF ENFORCEMENT AND PUBLICITY, ILLEGAL TRADE IN BEAR IN HONG KONG IS UNDER CONTROL.

TODAY STATED

MR

AND CHAN PRODUCTS

WAS THIS

(TUESDAY) BY THE AGRICULTURE (AFD) SENIOR CONSERVATION OFFICER, FISHERIES DEPARTMENT'S PING-KWONG, AT A MEDIA SESSION ON SEIZURES OF BEAR PARTS AND IN A SERIES OF OPERATIONS IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS.

MR CHAN SAID THE IMPORT AND EXPORT OF ALL BEAR SPECIES INCLUDING THEIR PARTS, SUCH AS GALL BLADDER, BILE AND BILE POWDER WERE

AND ANIMALS

PLANTS TO SUBJECT

CONTROL SINCE THE AMENDMENT OF THE (PROTECTION OF ENDANGERED SPECIES) ORDINANCE IN HONG KONG IN JANUARY THIS YEAR.

WAS

ANY PERSON IN POSSESSION OF OLD STOCK BEFORE THE AMENDMENT GIVEN A THREE-MONTH PERIOD WHICH ENDED IN LATE APRIL, TO APPLY FOR THE REQUIRED POSSESSION LICENCES.

/"THE DOMESTIC