The Environment Bureau has been forced to go back on estimates of when saturation points are reached at three controversial dump sites.
Planners said a while back that capacity at Tseung Kwan O would be reached this year, Ta Kwu Ling in 2017 and Tuen Mun in 2019.
Acting Secretary for the Environment Christine Loh Kung- wai told a Legislative Council Public Accounts Committee meeting yesterday the bureau will re- estimate when the sites will be full.
That was after questioning by Civic Party legislator Alan Leong Kah-kit, who said: “We have completely lost confidence after the audit report. Is it necessary for the government to review the resources allocation because the [estimates] were wrong?”
The auditor had found solid waste quantities and waste- recovery rates were overestimated.
Loh said the bureau “can re- estimate the deadlines” for when the three sites will be full, acknowledging “a gap” between audit findings and those of the bureau.
Committee chairman Abraham Shek Lai-him asked if resources were being used appropriately.
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