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A meeting for lawmakers to scrutinise a landfill extension and incinerator project descended into chaos again yesterday amid rowdy protests and a filibuster.
For the third time in less than a month, the Legislative Council's public works subcommittee was unable to vote on the plans.
Officials say the projects, a waste incinerator off Shek Kwu Chau and an extension to the Tseung Kwan O tip, cost-ing a combined HK$20 billion, are crucial as the city's three landfills will be full by 2020. As the meeting opened at 9am, Environment Secretary Wong Kam-sing rejected Neo Democrat lawmaker Gary Fan Kwok-wai's request to withdraw the landfill from discussion.