Lawmakers keep up pressure for probe following a study claiming high levels
The environment minister has rejected calls to test for dioxin at Tamar, saying the claim the site contained excessive amounts of the toxin is unfounded.
'We do not conduct a test because of rumours,' Sarah Liao Sau-tung said.
Dr Liao was speaking a day after Laurie Wan Shek-luen gave members of the Civic Party his study from 1993, which claimed high levels of dioxin were present in marine sediment near Tamar.
Political parties remained firm in their support for the project, making it all but certain Legco's Finance Committee will vote to approve the government's $5.1 billion funding request on Friday.
But copies of the report remain hard to get and seemed to have contributed to uncertainty on the part of lawmakers over the need to run tests.