Sara Yin – Updated on Sep 28, 2008 – SCMP The pink dolphins are safe, at least. The memorandum of understanding between Beijing and Hong Kong for gas supplies tied local energy needs and planning to those of the mainland. And although that meant the end of plans for a US$10 billion gas terminal on [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2008’
Power Struggle – Human and Environmental Cost For Chinese Booming Economy
Simon Parry – Updated on Sep 28, 2008 – SCMP On average, 10 mainland coal miners die each day and while the government recognises the dangers posed by privately run mines, it needs to keep a booming economy supplied with fuel. Simon Parry reports on the human cost of doing so The grubby, ramshackle clinic [...]
A Cleaner, Cheaper Energy Future For Hong Kong
Edward Yau – SCMP – Updated on Sep 23, 2008 Building on our long history of energy co-operation with the mainland, the memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between the National Energy Administration (NEA) and the Hong Kong government last month provides a firm backing for an agreement that will help ease the pressure for tariff [...]
Clear The Air Meeting with John Tsang Chun-Wah
Meeting with John Tsang Chun-Wah Consultation on the 2008/09 Policy Address to be delivered by Donald Tsang, Chief Executive. • Energy : The recent agreement signed between the HK Govt and the mainland for the supply of gas to the SAR is a welcome step towards cleaning up electricity generation within Hong Kong. (Power generation [...]
Clear the Air – Meeting With John Tsang Chun-Wah
Consultation on the 2008/09 Policy Address to be delivered by Donald Tsang, Chief Executive. Energy : The recent agreement signed between the HK Govt and the mainland for the supply of gas to the SAR is a welcome step towards cleaning up electricity generation within Hong Kong. (Power generation by gas is 60% efficient and [...]
Details For Supply Of Gas
Details for supply of gas will be worked out on commercial principles Sep 21, 2008 – SCMP I refer to the report (“Experts express concern over gas deal”, September 14). It is unfair to suggest that the government has agreed to any terms with regard to mainland gas companies that are not made public to [...]
Spotlights In Causeway Bay
SCMP | 20 September 2008 I was dismayed to see extremely bright spotlights outside Windsor House, in Causeway Bay, which is currently under renovation. Those spotlights are so bright that basically the whole area is lit up and it is difficult to tell the difference between day and night. Maybe that is why we call [...]
Imports Of Nuclear Power Opposed By Green Groups
Cheung Chi-fai, SCMP – Sep 15, 2008 Environmental activists have opposed further imports of nuclear-generated electricity from across the border under a new energy agreement with the mainland, though a power supplier has hinted it might expand imports. The activists maintain that nuclear energy is an unsustainable and unsafe option for meeting rising energy demand, [...]
Use Of Natural Gas Must Balance Reliance On Fossil Fuels
Green group says use of natural gas must balance reliance on fossil fuels Ng Kang-chung – Updated on Sep 12, 2008 Green groups have urged CLP Power to continue investing in renewable energy in Hong Kong and want rules imposed that would require natural gas to account for at least half of the fuel mix [...]
CLP Eyes Mainland For LNG Terminal
The Financial Times By Tom Mitchell in Hong Kong – September 12 2008 02:51 China Light and Power, Hong Kong’s largest energy company, has signalled its willingness to invest in a new liquid natural gas-receiving terminal on the Chinese mainland, possibly with ExxonMobil. CLP and ExxonMobil, which jointly operate three power plants in the self-governing [...]