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 [...]
Posts on ‘March 15th, 2010’
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 [...]
Editorial: Storm clouds over the climate change lobby
Last updated: March 11, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post We appear to have been battered to a submissive intellectual pulp by the climate change lobby, although it was only 35 years ago, when I interviewed the world’s principal climate experts for The Washington Post, that the consensus was the earth was cooling. Within a [...]
Science casts doubt on existence of climate change and its causes
Last updated: March 11, 2010 Source: South China Morning Post In a letter to the editor of SCMP, James Watkins of Sai Kung writes: I become quite despondent when I read letters on global warming such as those by Beatrice Yeung and by Jessie Kwok (“Poor nations will need help” and “Habitats are under threat”, [...]