SEP 05 '86 13:44 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
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HK Economic Journal columnist Yu Kam-yin said it was only an illusion that the Chinese leadership was split over whether to go ahead with the Daya Bay project. He said that the letter in the overseas edition of the Outlook magazine was to reiterate China's firm stand in building the Daya Bay plant following reports that Deng Xiaoping had told Li Ka-shing that China would reconsider the project.
New Evening Post columnist Yue Mak said yesterday that even if China rejected the call to shelve the Daya Bay project after listening to views of the anti-nuclear lobby here, it did not mean that China did not have democracy. The columnist said that there was no government on earth that would heed every view that was expressed. It would be undemocratic if it refused to take into consideration all views.
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The HK Standard, in an editorial, criticised Mr Allen Lee for his stand on the Daya Bay issue that HK had no power to influence China. It said that if Mr Lee believed that China would consider the two missions' reports then surely commonsense dictated that these reports must be ready before China signed the contracts.
Friday, August 15: Representatives of the Joint Conference for the shelving of the Daya Bay Project yesterday petitioned China Light asking the company to make public the section of the feasibility study report concerning the economic viability of the Daya Bay nuclear plant, the media reported prominently.
The group also urged the company to terminate the contract for purchasing power from Daya Bay until there was assurance that the plant would be safe and that nuclear energy would be cheaper than power generated from coal-fired stations.
They demanded that the China Light should discuss promptly with the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company the possibility of turning the planned nuclear plant into a coal-fired power station.
Twelve members of the anti-nuclear coalition would fly to Peking on Sunday to reflect HK people's views on the project to Chinese officials.
Remarks on Legco's overseas missions by the acting Governor, Sir David Akers-Jones, yesterday received good coverage in the electronic and print media.
Speaking to reporters after seeing some of the cooked food facilities in Kwun Tong, Sir David said the overseas fact-finding visits by Umelco members on the operation of nuclear power plants would be extremely valuable in helping HK people to understand more about the
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