SCMP letter May 2, 2012 Robert Lang said Hong Kong people should focus on the “good decisions” Donald Tsang Yam-kuen made during his time as chief executive, but he failed to list what they were (“Chief’s perks of office well deserved”, April 27). Leung Chun-ying, our leader-in-waiting, is already in the news for various reasons, [...]
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Public short-changed by government’s decision to extend three bus franchises
SCMP Clear the Air says: there are more than 6,000 franchised registered buses in Hong Kong. The franchise holders pay no import or first registration tax and pay no tax on diesel fuel. Existing franchise agreements already state that any replacement buses must be of the Best Available Current Technology (which means Euro V diesel, [...]
Give us more bins to boost recycling
Clear the Air says: the Government should immediately commission a trial plasma gasification plant adjoining a landfill. To fire up the new plasma plant installation we should use all the prevaricating dead wood feedstock that is already cluttering the highly paid ministerial hierarchy of HK Government. Friends of the Earth says there are not enough [...]