From: James Middleton [mailto:dynamco@netvigator.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 16:12 To: ‘franchise-renewal@td.gov.hk‘ Subject: Bus Franchise Requirements Transport Department 1 The time for submissions needs to be extended to allow further studies and submissions and you have not provided copies of current Franchise documents for evaluation. 2 The document you provided permits the bus companies to [...]
Posts from ‘September, 2011’
Canadian air quality among best in world
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Canadian+quality+among+best+world/5462860/story.html Yet it will still affect health of thousands BY CARMEN CHAI, POSTMEDIA NEWSSEPTEMBER 27, 2011 If you thought it was a pain to drive in Montreal or Toronto, think again. According to results of a survey, it’s not nearly as frustrating as driving in Mexico City or Beijing. In its fourth annual study, IBM [...]
Tackling the global clean air challenge
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2011/air_pollution_20110926/en/index.html
Zhuhai – Hong Kong Airport Joint Venture
http://www.hongkongairport.com/eng/media/press-releases/pr_909.html Zhuhai – Hong Kong Airport Joint Venture formed 23 November 2007) – Hong Kong-Zhuhai Airport Management Co. Ltd. (HKZAM), the joint venture between the Zhuhai Municipal People’s Government and Airport Authority Hong Kong that manages Zhuhai Airport, today celebrated its first anniversary with a ceremony officiated by Central and Southern Regional Administration of Civil [...]
Hong Kong PM2.5 levels
USA EPA The annual standard for PM2.5 is met whenever the 3 year average of the annual mean PM2.5 concentrations for designated monitoring sites in an area is less than or equal to 15.0 µg/m3. http://www.epa.gov/pmdesignations/faq.htm Hong Kong PM2.5 levels (note they deliberately have no monitoring station in Mongkok and Causeway Bay) attached (source HK EPD) [...]
Appeal Court overturns bridge ruling
www.rthk.org.hk The Court of Appeal has overturned a lower court judgment blocking construction of the Hong Kong section of the bridge linking Hong Kong with Macau and Zhuhai. The lower court had ruled that the government failed to conduct a proper environmental impact assessment of the multi-billion dollar project because it failed to project air [...]
WHO database of RSP PM2.5 and PM10 particulates with Hong Kong data included (excludes Causeway Bay and Mongkok PM2.5)
download PDF : OAP_database_8_2011SORTEDPM25PM10
Beijing in top 10 – of dirtiest capitals
South China Morning Post – 28 Sept. 2011 Clear skies during Olympics a distant memory as WHO lists city’s air quality among world’s worst A global air pollution survey by the World Health Organisation ranks Beijing near the bottom of a list of nearly 1,100 world cities. Despite its brief success in combating smog during [...]
It’s peak season, but delta supply chain in doldrums
South China Morning Post – 24 Sept 2011 Plunging confidence in the US and Europe eats into orders, with just 13 weeks to go to Christmas A chill wind is sweeping across the factory supply chain in front of a looming global recession. From manufacturers in the Pearl River Delta, to freight forwarders and package [...]
Cardiovascular effects of exposure to air pollution
1. simon.hales@otago.ac.nz Causal pathways of toxicity may depend on the duration of exposure High energy physics experiments attempt to re-create conditions immediately after the big bang, by searching back in time for evidence of elusive short lived particles. The linked study by Bhaskaran and colleagues (doi:10.1136/bmj.d5531) reports findings from a case crossover analysis of very short [...]