NOV 06 '86 16:19 TIBCOOU) HK GOVT
Saturday, October 18: Some papers reported that Legco members decided at an in-house meeting yesterday that the special Legco group on the monitoring of the Daya Bay plant would hold its first meeting on October 27.
Speaking on ATV-English"s "Newsline" today, a spokesman for the anti-nuclear coalition, Trini Leung, said the decision to cancel a protest against the Daya Bay project during the Queen's visit to HK was not made under pressure.
She said that the main reason for not staging such protests was that the Queen was not the real decision-maker in the HK or British
Governments.
Monday, October 20: Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said at the airport yesterday on a stop in HK after the Queen's visit to China that the Chinese Government fully understood and was fully alive to HK people's concerns over the construction of the Daya Bay plant, the media reported.
him that they would make every effort to ensure the safety of the plant.
In another development, an article published in Ming Pao today quoted sources as saying that the Government would not make public the Lazard Brothers' report on the Daya Bay project despite warnings by certain Legco members that they would invoke the Legco Powers and Privileges Ordinance to press for its disclosure.
According to a Legco member who had seen the report, the estimates of oil prices in the report were higher than current prices. Therefore, disclosure of the report would only lead to fresh controversias over the economic value of the Daya Bay plant, the article said.
The article added that the Government would have to pay the firm of consultants a fee if the report were to be made public. "The report has already cost the Government over $1 million," the writer said. "If taxpayers' money was to be used to pay a fee now, there would be a public outcry."
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