Hong Kong green groups’ joint campaign Filed under: Hong Kong Climate change — Jacqui Dixon @ 20:28 pm – CSR Asia Six green groups in Hong Kong have been running a campaign over the last few weeks to encourage the Hong Kong government to incorporate carbon dioxide into the Air Pollution Control Ordinance, which limits [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
Warning To Electricity Guzzlers
Barclay Crawford – SCMP – Updated on Apr 27, 2008 Electricity consumption will jump by 30 per cent by 2020 if businesses and households do not act to limit power use, a green group has warned. Friends of the Earth released data for their Power Smart campaign yesterday, saying that based on annual increases over [...]
Power Shortfall To Hit 10GW
Reuters in Beijing – Updated on Apr 22, 2008 The mainland’s power demand this year could outpace supply by as much as 10 gigawatts (GW), with temporary brownouts hitting parts of the south during the summer, State Electricity Regulatory Commission vice-chairman Wang Yeping said on Tuesday. Mainland power firms were building new power stations each [...]
Change In Pollution Law Relaxes Controls Over Power Plants
SCMP – Updated on Apr 19, 2008 Legislators are asking why the bill to amend the Air Pollution Control Ordinance does not cap emissions of carbon dioxide from power plants (“Carbon caps for power plants mean high bills”, April 11). They are missing the point. The bill does not seek to tighten the existing controls [...]
Australian PM Agrees To Collaborate Over Climate
Reuters in Canberra – Updated on Apr 12, 2008 Australia and China have agreed to hold annual ministerial talks on climate change and work together to clean up carbon pollution from coal-fired power stations. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made the announcement in Beijing after talks a day earlier with Premier Wen Jiabao , saying [...]
Make Carbon Dioxide A Statutory Air Pollutant
Apr 11, 2008 – SCMP Electricity tariffs might go up by as much as a third if power suppliers are to cut their carbon emissions significantly, a government source has hinted. The rough estimate was revealed to the South China Morning Post (SEHK: 0583, announcements, news) yesterday as lawmakers and green groups were pressing the [...]
Members Of The Environmental Group Greenpeace Protest
Monday, 07 April 2008 – Macau Daily Times Members of the environmental group Greenpeace protest over power plant C02 emissions by releasing balloons into the air in front of the skyline in Hong Kong yesterday. According to Greenpeace, the Hong Kong Observatory – the government weather agency – has warned that winter will disappear in [...]
Carbon Caps Demanded
Peter So – Updated on Apr 07, 2008 – SCMP Greenpeace wants the government to impose a legal cap on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants after a survey found more than 80 per cent of people agreed with the move. Of the 514 people polled, 70 per cent were concerned with the effects of [...]
Officials Must Kick Out CLP’s Plans For Extra Spending
Updated on Apr 05, 2008 – SCMP I see it is business as usual for CLP Power under the revised scheme of control agreement for electricity companies (“CLP places LNG plant on shopping list”, March 31). Under the previous arrangement, CLP Power was able to generate extra income for shareholders (mainly Exxon) of HK$3.2 billion [...]
THE TOXIC 100: Top Corporate Air Polluters In The United States
April 2008 – Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) Each year since 2002, researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts release the Toxic 100, an updated list of the top corporate air polluters in the United States. The Toxic 100 index identifies the top U.S. air polluters among the world’s [...]