From: Doug Meigs [mailto:dougmeigs@gmail.com] Sent: 31 August, 2012 12:03 To: Martin Williams Cc: Rosa Ma; James Middleton; David Wu; Basil Hui; Tom Hope Subject: Re: China Daily story today – thanks for your help! Hello, The China Daily video supplement was a bit delayed, but is now uploaded to the site and youtube now. Here’s [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2012’
Cementing a strong business in China
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-08/23/content_15700550.htm The Harbin-Dalian High-speed Railway under construction in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province. China’s generous investment in infrastructure and housing nurtured the nation’s cement industry, which now has 3,800 producers and more than 2.9 billion tons of production capacity annually. Provided to China Daily 100-year-old company sees greener future for building materials industry in the [...]
Villagers to Battle Waste Plant
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/battle-08212012163821.html Imaginechina A Chinese worker looks into a garbage incinerator plant in Qionghai, south China’s Hainan province, Dec. 1, 2009. Residents of an industrial town in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong are banding together in protest over plans to build a waste incinerator on their doorstep, local sources said on Tuesday. More than 1,000 local [...]
Call for comments on KfW’s reply to Chinese NGOs on Nangong Incinerator, Beijing
From: GAIA Sent: 30 August, 2012 11:10 To: GAIA Members; GAIA European Network Subject: [GAIA] Call for comments on KfW’s reply to Chinese NGOs on Nangong Incinerator, Beijing Dear GAIAns, The German KfW banking group sent Chinese NGOs a reply letter on Monday (27 August) as below, which we think is very burearatic and lack [...]
Greens dig in over third runway
SCMP 30 Aug 2012 Hong Kong’s green groups are playing hardball with the Airport Authority Hong Kong over efforts to get them to attend a Green NGO roundtable meeting with the AAHK to discuss environmental aspects of the proposed third runway. The airport authority, which is endeavouring to become the world’s greenest airport, is desperate to get [...]
INCINERATOR LATEST – Campaigners’ delight as ministers call in Saddlebow incinerator proposal
Whereas in Hong Kong the official charged with protecting the Environment is also the EIA rubber stamp for destroying it ! http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/latest-news/incinerator-latest-campaigners-delight-as-ministers-call-in-saddlebow-incinerator-proposal-1-4213456 Published on Thursday 30 August 2012 16:15 THE Lynn incinerator project is set to go to a full public inquiry after ministers decided to call-in the scheme, it has emerged this afternoon. News of [...]
An Open Letter to the German KfW Banking Group on Beijing N
http://www.lingfeiqi.cn/plus/view.php?aid=871 时间:2012-08-30 07:45来源:自然之友 作者: 点击: 27次 We are a group of non-governmental organisations and individuals who care about China’s environmental protection and social wellbeing. In this letter we would like to express our heartfelt concern regarding the investment and construction arrangemen FROM: 21 Chinese NGOs and 16 Citizens August 8, 2012 TO: KfW Bankengruppe Palmengartenstraße 5-9 60325 Frankfurt am Main Germany E-Mail: info@kfw.de Telefon: [...]
Scientists to launch own air quality index
Pollution alert system sidelined by government takes specific health risks into account, giving the public advice on levels of physical exertion Kristie Wong Aug 29, 2012 Pollution scientists who developed a new air quality alert system for the government that was never adopted plan to launch it themselves. The experts say their air quality health [...]
Still a lot of hot air in HK
http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=c3ae079b13969310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=Columns&s=Business Still a lot of hot air in HK Lai See 28/8/2012 Interesting to see that Singapore has raised the bar on air quality. Environment and Water Resources Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said last week that the country had adopted World Health Organisation guidelines as a target that it aimed to hit by this year, The Straits Times reported. [...]
HK team finds rich use for food waste
‘Biorefinery’ uses fungi to turn waste into an ingredient for making everyday products Adrian Wan Aug 26, 2012 A team of Hong Kong scientists say they have found a way to transform food waste into laundry detergent, plastic ingredients, and a host of everyday products, in a discovery that may ease pressure on the city’s [...]