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I hope it's just coincidence they chose to visit on April Fool's Day

strange coincidence indeed!

Getting ready for today's meeting. Will report back.

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
----- Margaret Mead

Yesterday,one hour after the government officials left, a VV was dumping more construction waste on that plot of land.
I approached the driver and asked him to take a look at the notice that was placed on the railing.
He shrugged, looked annoyed and just kept dumping. I asked him for his boss' phone number and he refused to give it to me.
Obviously he has been instructed to ignore whoever interferes with the smooth operations.

Tavis,
i doubt that Mr. Fong would listen to anybody. He is ignoring the Lands Dept. warnings, do you think he would listen to a bunch of gwailos?

Maybe if there were objections coming from the Lamma council, he would change his attitude, but we all know that the Lamma councillor is 'blind'.

Hong Kong is not a democratic country, just an oligarchy.

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Well done FB for your effort, esp. in confronting the V V guy (lucky you didn't become part of the landfill!). My Chinese friend was there yesterday talking to Lands Dept staff who explained that there were 100s of incidents of illegal dumping of waste all over the NT and they could only act effectively on cases where enough complaint is raised ie. the level of their response to such activity is proportional the amount of complaint raised. It shouldnt matter what the ethnicity of the complainant is but it would be better if more local Chinese got involved, even if it is just sending a complaint letter to the Lands Dept.(as opposed to a Long Hair style protest, but do try that too if you are brave enough). I am sure they care as much or even more than others, just that maybe they are less keen on the confrontational aspect of matters such as the land fill in YSL that involves village emperors - look how many dozens of local Chinese are prepared to spend the best part of a day trekking miles over the Island to Tung O to clean a remote beach (which will be covered in trash again with the next high tide), yet I nor my Chinese friend are aware of any such numbers being active in raising this issue. My apologies to all if I am wrong on that, and I'd like to hear that I am. Anyway, to those dozens of good people doing the beach cleaning (and anyone else who cares), writing/emailing the Lands Dept on the more pressing matters on our very doorstep might help raise awareness if nothing else. (Our letter was sent yesterday) .

BTW .. if you ever get nostalgic and wish to re-visit the old Nam Wah Yuen Restaurant, well, you still can! Its now located (in thousands of pieces) next to the YSL lily pond, and maybe even on top of it by now. Service is still rather slow.

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The local laws on dumping and zoning etc do appear too muddled to make any worthwhile difference and too open to interpretation to make any sort of legal action difficult.

But let's face it, people need homes to live in and you all live in homes that were built on once pristine land, land that locals probably orginally objected to being defaced at the time in arguments that have since been lost in the intervening years.

And just how 'beautiful' and 'important' is that stream? It's fed by the overflow of the valley's water pipes, so the stream's hardly life-supporting. Also the old web-footed farmer covers his allotment in synthetic fertiliser after each crop is harvested -- and that's at least six times a year -- adding to the toxicity of the water.

And what's laughably called a lily pond is not much more than a muddy puddle occasionally dredged by that mad Uncle Moon bloke.

I agree that if the plot is to be used for houses they will suffer a multitude of problems, but so what, that doesn't bother 60 percent of Lamma residents who live in similar squalour.

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