OCT 03 '86 16:35 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
A round-up of media reports and commentaries on the Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station 25.9.86 1.10.86
Thursday, September 25: A group of Legco members, including Martin Lee, would propose at tomorrow's Legco in-house meeting to move a resolution at a meeting of the council on October 15 to ask the Government to make public relevant information on the safety and economic aspects of the Daya Bay plant, Ming Pao, Sing Tao Jih Pao and the HK Economic Journal reported.
The Economic Journal and Ming Pao reported that Senior Legco Unofficial Lydia Dunn had been informed of the plan. Both papers quoted her as saying that the question could be discussed at the in-house meeting.
Ming Pao quoted sources as saying that the group of Legco members would ask the Government to make related documents available to Legco members if it refused to make public the documents. If both plans failed, the Legço members would seek to invoke the Legco Powers and Privileges Ordinance to press the Government to do so.
The three papers, together with a few others, said one of the leaders of the Legco delegation to Peking, Maria Tam, would make a verbal report on the Peking visit.
The papers reported that another Legco delegation leader, Allen Lee, would propose to ask China Light to make public the arrangements for buying electricity from the Daya Bay plant and to clarify whether there was a scheme of control on electricity charges.
The Economic Journal quoted a China Light spokesman as saying that such commercial information could not be disclosed.
In other developments, the chairman of the HKNIC, William Stones, and a managing director of the company, Steven Poon, returned from Peking yesterday after attending the Daya Bay contract signing ceremony on Tuesday.
Mr Stones told reporters at the airport that 10 per cent of the total cost of the US$3.6 billion Daya Bay project would be reserved for contingency purposes.
Legco member Poon Chung-kwong told newsmen after opening a computer exhibition yesterday that as the decision to build the plant could not be reversed, HK people should make sure that the Chinese Government would listen to their views on the safety of the plant.
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