Category Archives: Pollution

Sold! Complete With No Buffaloes

Posted on December 19, 2012 by cecilie

Yesterday I saw a rather disturbing sight down at the huge dinner table of Pui O’s water buffalo, the grasslands down by Pui O Beach. Surveyors were setting up boundaries around one of my favourite vistas. I went over and … Continue reading →

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Beautification of Pui O Continues

Posted on December 5, 2012 by cecilie

A few weeks ago I posted the above picture on Facebook, wondering what this container which, to put it mildly, had seen better days, could possibly be doing there.One morning it was just there, resting on bricks. Rusted through and … Continue reading →

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Government In All Its Glory

Posted on November 1, 2012 by cecilie

Last night, on Halloween, I ventured out in Central dressed as my favourite character on my show Cantonese The Movie on my YouTube channel Cantocourse, to advertise for my Cantonese course. A woman has to do what a woman has … Continue reading →

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Chewing Through Scenery, One Tree at the Time

Posted on June 8, 2012 by cecilie

This is how they do it: Take a thicket in sleepy backwater Pui O and cut down all the trees. Then fill the empty space with building rubble from all the village houses that have been stripped bare to the … Continue reading →

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Victory: Rare Bout of Sanity Hits Hong Kong Lawmakers!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by cecilie

Seems like Lantau is saved (for now) – all the parties shot down the incinerator proposal at Legco today. Rest in peace, idiotic ideas from the environmental ‘protection’ department! So we brace ourselves for the next onslaught, because they have … Continue reading →

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Rallying for Our Future

Posted on March 26, 2012 by cecilie

A bit belated, here are some images from the rally against the “super” incinerator off Lantau. It was an interesting march, and according to police, 1,500 people participated. That means… there were double that? The Hong Kong police, as indeed … Continue reading →

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Last Stand Against Insane-erator

Posted on March 11, 2012 by cecilie

This is our last chance to stop the deranged plan to ruin one of Hong Kong’s most beautiful and unspoiled vistas (see film above) for the sake of a 1972-style technology rubbish incinerator which will add greatly to the overall … Continue reading →

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Islands District Pusillanimous Council

Posted on February 20, 2012 by cecilie

Today was the big day: The meeting in the Islands District Council where councillors were to vote on whether the government’s harebrained scheme, the Super Waste Incinerator on Shek Kwu Chau, a stone’s throw from Lantau and Cheung Chau, would … Continue reading →

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G’Day! (Part 2 of Sydney) A Little Envious

Posted on February 20, 2012 by cecilie

Recently it seems that I’ve got up every morning looking into a grey curtain. I know, I know, inclement weather conditions and nothing at all to do with pollution, it’s just… well, it would have been great to go down … Continue reading →

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Incinerator Insanity (Important! Correct link is www.livingislands.org.hk!)

Posted on January 24, 2012 by cecilie

I have mentioned that damned incinerator the increasingly unhinged government is planning to spend 13 billion of your tax money on, right? (The alternative will cost 3 billion. I’m just saying.) Well, on Sunday I swung around the Chi Ma … Continue reading →

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