7.
On each occasion when such PHIs are planned in the future,
we will certainly make sure that the residents in any affected locality, Tsing Yi or otherwise, are well informed
about what are the risks and what are not the risks of
the installation.
Mr. LAI: Sir, my question is in two parts.
of
First, will
Government inform this Council the reason why in making
the decision to allow Shell to move its depots to Tsing Yi, it relied solely on the assessment by consultants commissioned by Shell, while the risk assessment report on the whole island being prepared by the Electrical and Mechanical
Services Department was still unfinished?
Secondly, will
in 1981 or the
Government release to the public the risk assessment report
EMSD on Tsing Yi Island prepared by the
report to be finished later on this year.
If not, why not ?
Secretary for Lands and Works: Sir, there were two
points really
in
the first
part of the question.
The first point would appear to be why Government should
rely entirely on a report on risk assessment by the
Shell Company's consultants.
The
answer
to
that is it did not. It also relied upon its own monitoring
The second part of the first part of
of that report.
the question: why should it rely on this report
before
it had completed its own report? The two were being prepared and decided on concurrently and the question of the Shell's removal from Ap Lei Chau and Kwun
Tong
was a matter already considered to be of considerable
benefit in the PHI field elsewhere.
And so, in fact, had
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