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by SLy, 26 November 2007
Hong Kong's degenerating air quality has concerned many residents for a number of years now. Theoretical explanations for the poor air quality abound. China, the Big Brother across the border, was often blamed, with its lackluster attention to the environment and hunger for economic development. Hong Kong's plentiful taxis were also blamed.
Now, for the first time, Hong Kong's China Light and Power plant on Castle Peak Road, has been named as a culprit. The power plant was identified as the world's number three polluting electricity generator, producing 35.8 million tons of harmful carbon dioxide for every 28.2 million hours of kilowatt energy produced.
"Carbon Monitoring for Action" (CARMA), a Washington based group that compiles data on over 50,000 power plants and 4.000 power companies worldwide, gave the China Light and Power plant its disgraceful ranking, in its first study of harmful power plant emissions.
CARMA is funded by the Center for Global Development:
http://www.cgdev.org/section/initiatives/_active/climatechange
News flash: China Light and Power successfully disputed CARMA's figures and has now had its emissions data revised downwards from 75.3 million to 67 million tons. It's always good to set the record straight but we would strongly urge China Light and Power to focus on correcting air quality problem rather than its public relations image.
Correcting the former can only enhance the latter!
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