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MEMORANDUM FOR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL AKK out

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HONG KONG ELECTRIC COMPANY LIMITED APPLICATION FOR A POWER STATION SITE

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With reference to paragraph 23 of membran XCC(78)73, the Environmental Protection Advisory C resumed discussion on the siting of the Hong Kong Electric Company Limited's new generating plant on 19th September 1978. Opinion in the Committee was fairly evenly divided. Seven of the members present, including five unofficials, considered that, with the options available, the Po Lo Tsui site on Lamma was the most appropriate choice. Five of the members present, all unofficials, preferred that the Committee's advice should read thus:

"Assuming the need for a second power

station, and supposing that further investigation proved the impossibility of generating sufficient additional power at the Tap Shek Kok site (what- ever the nature of the link between the two companies) the Committee reluctantly agreed that Lamma was the least unacceptable alternative site".

The Chairman of the Committee (the Secretary for the Environment) and the Environmental Protection Adviser, who is also a member, did not express a view, but both strongly support the choice of the Lamma site on the grounds that this will lead to a lesser pollution problem than the addition of Hong Kong Island's required future generation capacity to the Tap Shek Kok site. The Environmental Protection Adviser has stressed the point that the addition of further emissions to the already substantial emission expected from the planned Tak Shek Kok power station, would be unwise as this could lead to severe air pollution problems under adverse weather conditions. On the other hand the siting of the power station on Lamma Island is most unlikely to produce a significant pollution hazard if the planned controls on emissions, now under discussion with the Company, are implemented.

22nd September 1978 (CR 1/3096/77)

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