SEP 05 '86 15:05 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
Friday, August 29; Members of Legco's nuclear fact-finding delegations had included two additional suggestions in their report which was finalised yesterday, RTHK and some papers reported.
A number of papers, quoting a source, said that some changes had been made to a version of the report leaked to the press.
A Legco delegate told RTHK that members of the missions were concerned that the costs for implementing a number of additional safety measures at the Daya Bay plant would eventually be passed on to HK consumers by means of higher electricity charges.
Press reports quoted another Legco delegate as saying that the first additional suggestion asked China to ensure that charges of electricity from the Daya Bay power station would not be higher than HK's electricity charges during the entire life of the plant.
It was noted that China had earlier agreed that charges of electricity to be sold by the Guangdong Nuclear Power Joint Venture Company would not be higher than that of coal-fired electricity for the first six years of the operation of the plant.
The second additional suggestion requested China to consider setting up a high-powered committee to advise on the operation of the nuclear plant to which HK people would be appointed.
In moderate coverage, representatives of the anti-nuclear lobby yesterday petitioned Umelco to press for a special sitting of Legco to discuss the Daya Bay issue.
A spokesman for the group, Anthony Ha, suggested that Legco members could put forward a motion that "in view of the intense › worry of the HK people, that it is the responsibility of the Government and ` Legco to urge relevant authorities not to sign the contracts until the safety aspects and economic aspects are assured."
Some papers reported that members of the group said they would petition the Governor at the airport today before his departure for Peking.
Ming Pao quoted lawyer Anthony Neoh as saying that even if Legco Unofficials agreed to invoke the Legco Powers and Privileges Ordinance to press the Government to release the Lazard Brothers report, the chances of success were not high. This was because the Government, on the basis of Section 14 sub-section 1 of the ordinance, could withhold the report by asserting that the report was privileged communication between the Financial Secretary and Exco.
P.18
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.