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Posts from ‘March, 2010’
The toxic legacy of Texaco-Chevron in Ecuador – Sign the petition
Support justice for the rainforest communities of Ecuador! Over three decades of oil drilling in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Texaco (now Chevron) dumped more than 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater into the rainforest, creating an environmental tragedy experts call “the Amazon Chernobyl.” This systematic contamination has left tens of thousands of local indigenous people and [...]
Old buses to be retired by 2019
First published: March 17, 2010 Source: Hong Kong Government Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau anticipated all pre-Euro and Euro I buses will be retired no later than 2012 and 2015, respectively, while Euro II buses will retire by 2019. Mr Yau told lawmakers today if all pre-Euro, Euro I and Euro II commercial vehicles [...]
LCQ15:Reduction in the emissions from franchised buses and the resultant pollution problems
First published: March 17, 2010 Source: Hong Kong Government, via 7th Space Following is a question by Hon Kam Nai-wai and a written reply by the Secretary for the Environment, Mr Edward Yau, in the Legislative Council today (March 17): Question: Regarding the reduction in the emissions from franchised buses and the resultant pollution problems, [...]
U.N. to examine panel’s global-warming report
First published: March 15, 2010 Source: One News Now The United Nations says it will initiate an investigation into the practices of its climate change panel. The secretary general of the United Nations says the InterAcademy, a multinational organization of the world’s science academies, will pick a panel of experts to take a thorough look [...]
IPCC likely to backtrack on claim that global warming will destroy rainforests
First published: March 15, 2010 Source: The Times of India The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is the world’s leading climate change group, is expected to backtrack over its claims about how rainforests would be devastated by rising temperatures, as one of its own scientists has said that the claim is “totally [...]
Bad atmosphere
Last updated: March 16, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post Life has not been the same since my meeting on Friday with indoor air consultant George Woo. I had always thought of air pollution in terms of grey skies, cross-harbour visibility and diesel fumes. The roadside readings are bad today, so I must stay off [...]
Exhausting work
Last updated: March 12, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post In a letter to the SCMP, Christine Loh Kung-wai, chief executive of the think-tank Civic Exchange, had this to say: If Hong Kong doesn’t get the “carrots and sticks” formula right, it will continue to be hard to replace the old and highly polluting commercial [...]
Diesel Franchised buses in Hong Kong
By the end 2009, the breakdown on the number of franchised buses by engine type is as follows: Engine Type KMB CTB NWFB LW NLB Pre-Euro 300 40 30 less than 5 0 Euro I 940 310 80 0 0 Euro II 1490 530 480 130 35 Euro III 1100 10 70 20 50 Euro [...]
Higher fees eyed to drive polluting trucks off road
Last updated: March 11 ,2010 Source: South China Morning Post They dangled a carrot, but too few bit. Now environment officials are considering wielding a stick to get heavily polluting old trucks off the city’s streets. They have decided to resurrect as soon as possible a proposal to increase licence fees for trucks and vans [...]