環署拒撤龍尾環境許可證
【本報訊】大埔龍尾興建人工泳灘再有新爭拗！環境保護署昨日傍晚突然電郵回覆環保團體「守護龍尾大聯盟」，拒絕撤回龍尾人工泳灘的環境許可證，指大聯盟的要求並不成立（no case），但沒有附有任何理由。守護龍尾大聯盟強烈譴責環保署的武斷行為，質疑署方突然出招拒絕撤回環境許可證，與申訴專員公署日前決定全面調查龍尾工程有關。大聯盟將諮詢法律顧問意見，並盡快重新啟動司法覆核程序。環保署回應說檢視完反對團體的資料，土木工程沒有提供任何不可信或誤導性資料，故此不撤回該工程的環境許可證。
守護龍尾大聯盟發言人李少文怒指「環保團體努力咗咁耐，你話我哋畀嘅資料唔詳細，龍尾嘅生態價值唔高，咁我哋都服呀！但係環保署依家連一個簡單理由都無，仲要傍晚七點幾放晒工先嚟覆我哋，咁即係乜嘢意思先？」
申訴專員公署上周五（三日）接納環保團體「創建香港」的投訴，就港府批出有關工程的環境許可證時，未有充分考慮人工泳灘以外的替代方案，向民政事務局、康樂及文化事務署和環境保護署是否存在行政或判斷失當，展開全面調查。
http://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/n ... ml?pubdate=20130511
龍尾灘環境許可證拒撤回 太陽報 2013年05月11日
【本報訊】大埔龍尾興建人工泳灘再有新爭拗！環境保護署昨日傍晚突然電郵回覆環保團體「守護龍尾大聯盟」，拒絕撤回龍尾人工泳灘的環境許可證，整篇書信內容僅得簡短數十字，指大聯盟的要求並不成立（no case），但沒附有任何理由。守護龍尾大聯盟強烈譴責環保署的武斷行為，質疑署方突然出招拒絕撤回環境許可證，與申訴專員公署日前決定全面調查龍尾工程有關，有強行製造既定事實之嫌。
「一個簡單理由都無」
守護龍尾大聯盟發言人李少文怒斥環保署態度傲慢，譴責有關行為武斷且完全無視科學證據。他指，「環保團體努力咗咁耐，你話我哋畀嘅資料唔詳細，龍尾嘅生態價值唔高，咁我哋都服呀!但係環保署而家連一個簡單理由都無，仲要傍晚七點幾放晒工先嚟覆我哋，咁即係乜嘢意思先？」大聯盟將諮詢法律顧問意見，並盡快重新啟動司法覆核程序。
http://the-sun.on.cc/cnt/news/20 ... ml?pubdate=20130511
大聯盟將盡快就龍尾泳灘重啓司法覆核程序 新城電台 10/05/2013 10:25PM
守護龍尾大聯盟表示, 環境保護署已經正式拒絕他們, 有關撤回龍尾人工泳灘的環境許可證要求 , 大聯盟對此深表遺憾.
大聯盟指出 , 他們已提供有關龍尾灘生態價值的資料, 但環保署的回信 , 只是簡單表示他們的要求並不成立, 但無給予任何理由, 認為是武斷和無視科學證據的行為.
大聯盟也譴責政府有關部門, 在申訴專員公署決定全面調查龍尾工程後就作出這個決定 , 有強行製造既定事實之嫌. 大聯盟會與法律顧問, 研究環保署的回覆, 並會盡快重新啓動司法覆核的程序.
http://www.metroradio.com.hk/997 ... wsID=20130510222520
Green groups seek judicial review over artificial beach SCMP 11 May, 2013
Conservationists will seek a judicial review in their latest effort to block a man-made beach project at Tai Po after the government rejected their arguments that the environmental impact report was misleading.
This follows a letter from assistant director of environmental protection Tang Kin-fai, received by the coalition of green groups yesterday, that said "no case has been made out for the exercise of power" under the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance.
The ordinance empowers the Environmental Protection Department to revoke a project's permit if the study contains misleading or false information.
The group in November asked the department to cancel the permit issued to the Civil Engineering and Development Department for the HK$200 million project. "We regret the unscientific decision and officials' arrogance, because we submitted a lot of information, but officials gave no explanation why they rejected us," coalition member Peter Li Siu-man said. He said the group would now seek legal aid to mount a judicial review against the department's dismissal of their arguments.
The letter came just two days after the Ombudsman told the coalition that it would investigate alleged government malpractice over the project.
The coalition is fighting to stop a muddy tidal coastline at Lung Mei from being transformed into a 200-metre artificial seaside with room for 4,000 swimmers.
The Civil Engineering and Development Department said last night it would not award the work contract yet but would wait for another decision by the chief executive, which could override the department's. The tender closes in June.
The group has requested the chief executive, under the same ordinance, revoke the permit as the project would be more prejudicial to public health and the ecosystem than expected at the time of issuing the work permit.
More than 200 marine species, including some rarely found in Hong Kong, have been recorded by volunteers at the rocky tidal habitat of the site - more than were reported in the study.
The government plans to move the marine organisms to similar habitats nearby.
The opponents also queried whether heavy metals in the water had been assessed and if sufficient consideration had been given to alternative sites.
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-ko ... er-artificial-beach
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