HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL-22 February 1989
香港立法局
·九八九年二月二十二日
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Measures to prevent and deal with such incidents are regularly reviewed and improvements are made. In addition, the Tsing Yi Hazard Reassessment Study will soon be completed. This study will suggest what further measures need to be taken to afford greater protection to life and property.
It is the Government's announced intention that we would relocate oil depots away from the residential areas in north-east Tsing Yi to the south and west of the island and elsewhere, which is separated from residential developments by a mountain ridge, when the opportunity arises. We have in hand various plans in this regard.
林貝聿嘉議員問:主席先生,地政工務司在答覆中的最後一句話是:政府有多項計劃在進行中。 政府可否告知本局這些計劃的內容?油庫和住宅區如此接近是否城市規劃的錯誤?
SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: Sir, the plans to which I was referring were plans to remove oil terminals to safer places. There is a firm plan in respect of one. There are tentative plans, which await the finalization of the Tsing Yi hazard study, in respect of another. In respect of Hong Kong Oil, there is as yet no firm plan but I think there should be soon. Does the proximity of these oil terminals represent bad planning? I think by modern standards we would say it would, but we must remember that at the time that Tsing Yi was basically set out, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) was not very far advanced and it is LPG which has made for the hazardous situation we are now in rather than the previous conventional petroleum products. Moreover, as Members will all be aware, very different view of hazard was taken in the '60s and the early '70s than is taken now.
周美德議員問:主席先生,鑑於現時青衣島居民的強烈要求和行動抗議,政府會否主動與油庫公 司商討搬遷問題?如會,政府是否需要付出龐大的搬遷補償費?
SECRETARY FOR LANDS AND WORKS: Sir, to relocate the oil terminals will clearly involve taking the matter up with the companies involved. Clearly the oil companies have valuable leases and the oil business is a valuable business; money may be involved.
梁煒彤議員問:地政工務司在主要的答案中提出政府計劃將青衣島的油庫遷離。地政工務司可否 告知本局,政府是否理解到,其所決定的青衣島油庫和民居的距離會令到居民的安全大受威脅? 如是,為何當時作出如此的規劃決定?有没有令人信服的依據?
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