Environmental Impact Assessment

Environmental watchdog needs to rebuild trust

29 Nov 2012

When I attended my first meeting as a member of the Advisory Council on the Environment, I asked how the body could be more transparent so the public could better understand how it scrutinises...

2:46AM

Eco-friendly ideas for Lung Mei

13 Nov 2012

The Hong Kong Civil Servants General Union urged the government to carry out the development of an artificial beach in Lung Mei, located along Tolo Harbour, as quickly as possible ("Activists...

2:15AM

Does new position turn the poacher into a gamekeeper?

27 Sep 2012

A few eyebrows have been raised at Mike Kilburn's decision to change jobs. It's not so much because he is leaving the think tank Civic Exchange, where he was head of environmental strategy for...

3:25AM

Lai See

30 Jun 2012

Ching Ming won't be the same in Sha Lo Tung if firm has its way

6:58PM

Land swap option in plan for niches

26 Jun 2012

The landowner and developer of a proposed columbarium in ecologically sensitive Sha Lo Tung says it would consider a land swap if the government offered one amid strong public opposition to the...

6:36PM

Lai See

13 Jun 2012

Air quality will make or break airport's hopes for third runway

5:26PM

Opinion

Placating graduates a work in progress

5:24AM

George Chen

For HSBC, the first love is apparently not the deepest

7:12AM

Officials demand facts on runway

The government is pressing the Airport Authority for more information and data on the ecological effects of its proposed multibillion-dollar third runway.

5:22PM

Lai See

Public input welcome, as long as it favours Airport Authority's plans

4:05PM

Environment chief's dual role makes it very difficult to criticise government

The Environmental Protection Department's press release of April 26, announcing the air quality figures for the Pearl River Delta in 2011, was, as usual, relentlessly upbeat.

2:55PM

Lai See

Airport board thumbs nose at international best practice

2:33PM

Lai See

When one side's interest is the only one that counts

11:58PM

Delta bridge can go ahead as legal challenge ends

The legal challenge to construction of a bridge across the Pearl River estuary to Macau and Zhuhai is over.

11:01PM