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Letters | Hong Kong must steer clear of UK’s green path
- Readers discuss the energy mix behind Hong Kong’s electricity supply, explain why airmail services are not available to some destinations, and point to the achievements of the Kai Tak redevelopment
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The electricity price rises recently announced by CLP and HK Electric will undoubtedly impose hardship on society’s most vulnerable (“Hong Kong’s 2 power firms to raise tariffs by as much as 6.4 per cent from January”, November 22). However, it should be remembered that these price rises are rather modest compared to those in Australia and Europe.
In that regard, Hong Kong is fortunate to have its electricity supply generated from coal and nuclear sources. Were our city to jump aboard the economically suicidal, net-zero emissions climate bandwagon as suggested by your correspondents in the letter, “Make Hong Kong’s carbon neutral goal legally binding” (November 22), the inevitable result would be energy poverty for the masses.
The last thing Hong Kong needs is the green zealotry of the United Kingdom’s Climate Change Act. Hongkongers cannot afford such ideological indulgences.
Nicholas Tam, Sai Ying Pun
Reduced flight capacity has affected airmail services
I refer to the letter, “Why no airmail to some destinations?” (November 23).
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