http://www.hub-4.com/news/4997/tetronics-celebrates-win-at-national-recycling-awards Tetronics Ltd., market leader in the supply of Direct Current (DC) plasma waste recovery plants for the treatment of hazardous waste and metal recovery, is delighted to announce that it has won the National Recycling Awards 2012 for the Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recycler of the Year. These awards recognise excellence in all parts [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2012’
oh so true ………….. your ‘Yes Minister’ giggle for the day
oh so true ………….. your ‘Yes Minister’ giggle for the day ‘Yes Minister’ Sir Humphrey: You’re normally so good at blurring the issue. Jim Hacker : At what? Sir Humphrey: You have a considerable talent for making things unintelligible, Minister. Jim Hacker : I beg your pardon. Sir Humphrey: No, no I mean that as a compliment, I assure you. [...]
‘Taipan’ says radio row about politics
Shareholder clashes at the Digital Broadcasting Corporation spring from government’s desire to suppress its opponents, according to Albert Cheng Peter So and Niall Fraser Jul 29, 2012 A major shareholder’s decision to put the Digital Broadcasting Corporation at risk of liquidation by refusing to pump in extra cash is “politically motivated”, the station’s co-founder, ‘Taipan’ [...]
City scraps waste pipeline after thousands protest
Party boss has shirt torn off his back as crowd of demonstrators invades local headquarters Fiona Tam Jul 29, 2012 A city in eastern China scrapped an industrial waste pipeline after tens of thousands of anti-pollution protesters ransacked the local government headquarters, clashed with riot police and tore off the shirt of a Communist Party [...]
Heartland Denial-a-Palooza Sponsors Have Received $67 Million From ExxonMobil, Koch and Scaife Foundations
http://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-denial-palooza-sponsors-have-received-67-million-exxonmobil-koch-and-scaife-foundations The Heartland Institute’s Seventh “International Conference on Climate Change” – the somewhat-annual gathering of climate deniers that we call Denial-a-Palooza - is underway in Chicago. Heartland’s contrarian gathering this year is clouded by the group’s incredibly offensive billboard campaign that flamed out within hours but is causing lasting damage to the group’s fading financial support from corporations, [...]
WK Cultural Green Park
Dear friends of the Environment: Hopefully this my last letter (sent herewith) to campaign for an environmental green park of Hong Kong. Now, we have submitted our design (by Prof. K.P. Cheung and his students of HKU, School of Architecture) to the Town Planning Board to challenge the ill-designed plan (by Norman Forster) submitted by [...]
Proposed parking scheme should be rejected
SCMP letter Jul 25, 2012 While drivers welcome government plans to introduce new features at parking meters, such as allowing fees to be paid via mobile phone, pedestrians and residents of districts with chronic traffic congestion are appalled. The Legislative Council paper on the trial scheme says that on-street “parking spaces are provided to cater [...]
Kids wheezing Down Under – what about those in HK?
SCMP Jul 25, 2012 There is less than cheery news from Australia on the subject of air pollution and child health. A national study of 2,860 primary school children found nitrogen dioxide (NO2), found in motor vehicle exhaust, was present in the lungs of two-thirds of the children from the 55 schools tested, according to [...]
Development threatens sensitive area
SCMP letter The governments of Hong Kong and Shenzhen are pushing forward with the development of the Lok Ma Chau Loop, to optimise ”land resources of this strategic location to meet the future development needs of the two cities”. The government says that it will be used for education and hi-tech research. The loop was formerly a fishpond area [...]
recent meeting to ‘discuss’ the incinerator visit to Singapore
Chairman Islands District Council · By E-Mail to isdcadm@isdc.had.gov.hk · By Fax to (852) 2542 0183 · By Telephone to (852) 2852 4325 · By Mail to Islands District Council Secretariat, 20/F., Harbour Building, 38 Pier Road, Central, Hong Kong Dear Sir, 24 July 2012 We refer to the meeting chaired (as shown below in the SCMP Lai See newspaper article) by [...]