South China Morning Post - 29th April 2011 It’s that air pollution blame game again. Less rain and stronger sunshine are the reasons given by the Environmental Protection Department for Hong Kong’s increased pollution levels during the first three months of the year. In recent years, we have also been told that dust clouds, climatic [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2011’
Pollution sensors to detect filthy vehicles
South China Morning Post 29 April 2011 Environment officials intend to track polluting taxis and cars using remote-sensing street-level technology. The plan – which aims to cut ozone and nitrogen filth – is being drafted by the Environmental Protection Department. The technology has been around for years but officials are now taking a serious look [...]
World of people just dying to indulge
Lifestyle-related diseases stemming from tobacco, alcohol and obesity, have taken over infectious diseases such as HIV and malaria to become the greatest killer of people worldwide. Director-General of the World Health Organisation Margaret Chan yesterday released a report that showed non-communicable illnesses including cancer, diabetes and heart disease had contributed to 36.1 million deaths in [...]
How long can the government ignore the bad air evidence
South China Morning Post – 28th April 2011 As the government continues to twiddle its thumbs over the noxious fumes that are spewed out by mainly buses and trucks, other organisations are thankfully taking a less relaxed view. Hung Wing-tat, an associate professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is overseeing a pilot project to examine [...]
Sunny weather blamed for high spring pollution
South China Morning Post — 26th April, 2011 People who queued to buy a dehumidifier in anticipation of a foggy, humid spring should probably have bought an air purifier instead. The year’s first quarter has been unusually bright and dry and scientists are looking into the possibility that this is why the air was also [...]
Business First
South China Morning Post — 25th April 2011 Eva Cheng probably doesn’t even realise it, but our transport and housing secretary has given us a valuable peek into how this government sees its priorities. When a court ruled against the government last week on a crucial environmental issue, it said the government had done too [...]
Laws cover cross-border waste disposal
South China Morning Post — 13 April 2011 In response to Michael Lewis’s letter (“Draw up delta refuse strategy”, April 5), it has been the general approach internationally for individual jurisdictions to properly treat and dispose of their waste at the place of generation. That is, each jurisdiction should have its own means to manage [...]
Waste incinerator report gets advisers’ green light
South China Morning Post — 12 April 2011 A controversial report on the environmental impact of a planned waste incinerator was given the green light yesterday by government environment advisers. The study was approved by the Advisory Council on the Environment amid charges by the plan’s opponents of irregularities in the way it was conducted. [...]
Incinerator opponents given fresh hope
South China Morning Post — 11 April 2011 Department may face judicial review over alleged abuse of environmental study process Opponents of the planned waste incinerator may have been handed crucial ammunition by the discovery of possible irregularities in the way the environmental impact assessment for the project was handled. Environment advisers say the Environmental [...]
Freeway air pollution linked to brain damage in mice
Greenpeace 7 April 2011 It is well known that air pollution from cars and trucks on Southern California freeways — a combination of soot, pavement dust and other toxic substances — can cause respiratory disease, heart attacks, cancer and premature death. Now, exposure to pollution particles roughly one-thousandth the width of a human hair has [...]