DRAFT SPEECH BY LORD KADOORIE AT CASTLE PEAK
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Your Excellency, Prime Minister, Ladies and
Gentlemen. The event which brings together such a
distinguished gathering is one with significance far
beyond the completion of two major engineering projects.
It represents international co-operation and co-ordination
at its best.
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Co-operation between CL&P and their American
associates, EXXON, co-operation between HMG and private
enterprise, co-operation with our bankers, co-operation.
between contractors of several nationalities, and last but
not least co-ordination of an excellent labour force under
the guidance and drive of Mr. W. F. Stones and his able team.
of Project Engineers, have created this major undertaking,
the implications of which are likely to be felt in East/West
relations well into the next century.
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It
For Hong Kong it is a promise fulfilled.
is with pride that CL&P can look back to a forecast made
some six years ago, that the demand for electricity would
call for the commissioning of 350MW of new plant in 1982. Our forecast of demand has been on target and so is our provision of the generating capacity to meet it.
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Time does not permit of a dissertation on the many problems which have had to be overcome during site
formation and construction. However, massive understatement
allows me to express my appreciation and thanks to all concerned without which it would have been impossible to cast mountains into the sea and produce 350MW of power, with its associated EHV Transmission Network, within budget, and within a period of three years, eight months and twelve days
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