保衞烏溪沙海灣 - 25填海選址分化港人

25填海選址分化各區市民，搞得火頭處處，破壞社會和諧。

http://www.landsupply.hk/download/pdf/MediaBriefing-4Jan2012/Possible_%20reclamation_sites_map.pdf

新特首上任，未暇做管治工作，先做「救火員」。

5/1百日不到便7/1，港九新界各區，無端多了十幾萬人，本來不上街的都上街--抗議家門前填海...抗議破壞生態環境...等等...等等。

25選址是如何選出來的？土拓署負責選址的職員，港大研究中心及一眾相關的專家學者，請申報利益。請公開住區。還有，請公開在那一區擁有投資物業！

謝謝。


P.S.  群起強烈反對的除了馬鞍山居民，還有：
        - 青山灣深井和青龍頭的居民
        - 吐露港船灣的居民
        - 港島西沙灣的居民
        - 大嶼山東涌的居民
        - 九龍東將軍澳的居民
        - 新界西屯門27區的居民

請參閱土拓署的「討論區」：http://www.landsupply.hk/forum.php?lang=cht

                                                                                                                                                 Hetty Lai

親親烏溪沙大行動

2012年3月11日下午2點鐘，天上飄著細雨，寒冷潮濕，卻沒能阻擋我們保衛烏溪沙海灘的步伐，成百上千的熱愛烏溪沙海灣的人們陸續來到YMCA的操場上，參加“親親烏溪沙大行動”；

我們唱著“愛海灣、愛沙灘....”的歌，做著強體健身的千人操，在一片祥和熱烈的氣氛中，把搜集到的5千份“反對烏溪沙海灣填海”的信交到政府官員手裏；

接著，我們離開YMCA來到沙灘，兵分5組，用灘石砌字--“天地從日月”“春風化土木”的象形文字；

然後，我們手拉手，圍著砌好的字，高喊“保衛烏溪沙海灣”“反對烏溪沙填海”，向世人展示“我們團結一致，保衛家園”的決心，天地可以作證！最後，我們在碼頭的欄桿上綁好象征綠色環保的綠色絲帶。

3月11日，自從去年日本大地震、海嘯、核電站的核泄漏之後，已經被刻在我們的腦子裏；人類只是地球萬物的一種，不能為所欲為，要與大自然和諧共存，今後的發展必須遵循綠色環保的根本法則。

                                                                                                                                               和雲伴月

3月11日下午2點，反對烏溪沙填海大遊行

請聯同家人親友，在3月11日下午2時，到烏溪沙YMCA青年新村集合，出席「親親烏洗沙大行動」，反對烏溪沙填海。

請參看:
http://wksbeach.com/

Insufficient Space in Hong Kong: Ma On Shan and Wu Kai Sha

To read my post in context please visit my blog Three Torches

It’s been a hard day at work, and you’ve been putting in overtime hours for the past two weeks at the investment bank. Your two kids – the older son applying for college, with his younger sister sitting her entrance exams into secondary school – are stressed out. Your spouse has been pushing hard for promotion lately, but can’t quite seem to figure out what the boss really wants.

At the very least you can come home to a suburban area that’s a good distance away from the hustle and bustle of the heart of Hong Kong island – places like Central, Causeway Bay, or TST. A home in a residential area that has a handful of medium-sized malls built more for convenience rather than to attract tourists. There’s a fantastic and well-maintained country park that’s perfect for walks and exercise, and the quiet beach area sees more than hundreds of people every day swimming, fishing, flying kites, or chasing crabs in the rocks.

Could there be a worse thing than turning this peaceful landscape into ten or twenty apartment buildings with parking lots and 60+ floors and additional shopping malls to support new residents?

What would it be like for a resident of 2 or 3+ decades in this area to think that in perhaps five or ten years, opening a window in the morning will no longer invite the salty smell of seawater and the ocean, but instead roaring cranes and the stench of engine fuel and chemical constituents? Instead of the rich diversity of animal life that have made their livelihoods for generations in the beach and bay area, there will be temporary construction houses and lines of machinery and vehicles moving in an out hundreds of times a day?

Photo courtesy of Amanda Hall

When the water is warm enough to swim in, each morning at the crack of dawn sees as many as fifty to a hundred residents swimming in the waters near the beach. They walk over from their buildings along the sleepy streets with few cars and pedestrians, follow the pathway that leads from the shore along the back of the beach to the Wu Kai Sha Pier. Sandals, towels, bottles of water, and dry clean clothes are all placed along the railings of the pier, before they climb down the stairs straight into the seawater. The vast majority of these swimmers are in their sixties or seventies. They sport their wet graying locks of hair with pride, at times chattering loudly about the fact that they’re the only ones with the capacity of waking up before 6am to enjoy a wonderful morning swim. Many of them swim for half an hour to forty minutes.

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This area that is the potential site for new housing plans and land reclamation represents the one area in this residential suburbia where kids, adults, domestic maids, and elderly can all directly interact with nature. After around four in the afternoon the beach becomes populated with students, all in their individual school uniforms, who are eager to kick off their shoes and run in the finer sand patches. The beach is mostly rocky with many pebbles and small boulders overrun with barnacle shells: here is where the area is so full of life, containing thriving ecosystems of crabs, fish, tiny eels, and many more that remain unseen to the human eye.

It seems interesting that Hong Kong residents spend a lot of money each year traveling to see the sights of greater East Asia and the world. Many leave Hong Kong for a week or two in order to escape the massive consumer mania and material urges, hiking in the mountains of Japan to riding elephants in Thailand to white water rafting in Australia. The enjoyment of these natural locations is crucial to the renewal of the businessman, the school teacher, the stock trader, the social worker, the grocer, the domestic maid, the student, the family. So why go about with the destruction of these beautiful habitats at home in exchange for more residential outlets? Why compromise the integrity of Hong Kong’s other side, its precious natural body and habitats?

In protest, the beach becomes heartbroken

***

Jonathan Lin is a junior English major currently studying in Carleton College, Minnesota, USA. On his personal blog Three Torches he discusses international affairs and world events.

烏溪沙海灣----大自然的恩賜

烏溪沙海灣----大自然的恩賜

烏溪沙海灣，天然的海濱游泳場，吸引了多少晨泳的人們，海灣一片紅樹林默默地淨化著南下的污濁空氣，紅樹林下出沒著無數的小海蟹，退潮海灘上的蜆、蠔、海膽，甚至海參讓許多大人、孩童駐足觀看，課餘假日，孩子們在淺海裡、沙灘上嬉戲，年輕人、又或一家人在海灣裡扒艇，日出日落，潮漲潮退，烏溪沙海灣已經成為我們馬鞍山人生活中不可缺少的一部分。

在這裡填海？試問政府為什麼要把這一切毁掉？                           

理由：建築廢料沒有地方擺放；香港不夠地方起樓給港人住。

為了擺放垃圾，要填掉這麼美麗的海灣？香港已經走到窮途末路了嗎？我沒有什麼成熟的想法，既然我們現在是付錢、利用我們的建築棄料為大陸修建人工島，讓一些人嘆息，那從此以後，就為自己建吧，根據人工島的位置來決定它的用途，公共娛樂、政府公共事業用地，如果地理位置適宜，建住宅樓也都可以考慮。

至於“在烏溪沙海灣填海，是因為香港不夠地方起樓給港人住”，我認為理由不充足：

第一，香港自己人的出生率這麽低，未來人口是根據什麽算出來的？既然說道人口，近期日益增加的“雙非”嬰兒，沖關的大陸孕婦，政府目前的人口政策有著不可推卸的責任，是時候檢討香港的人口政策了。

第二，香港、九龍那麼多舊城區，擁擠、破爛，完全不符合現代人居住的環境準則，舊樓改造勢在必行，同時，也可以避免更多塌樓悲劇的發生，政府不能因為業權收購繁瑣而不做，香港市民用高薪養著這麼多的政府官員，就是要他們為香港人辦實事、辦好事的。

第三，老實講，在烏溪沙海灣填海出來的土地，有幾多會用來建公屋、居屋？一定被政府賣給地產商開發成豪宅，到時生活在中下層的港人仍然買不起樓住，連原本用來休憩欣賞大自然美景的沙灘也被豪奪了，這就是填海的未來；

總而言之，填海，破壞大自然美麗的海岸線，會帶來不可逆轉的後果，請政府三思而行，不要做出對不起港人、以及我們子孫後代的事！

                                                                                                                                               和雲伴月

保衛烏溪沙海灣 - CEDD 的公衆論壇

*** 2月23日再次翻查網頁，發现[公眾參與活動回顧]，包括能打開的第二次 [公衆論壇]，放在這兒：http://www.landsupply.hk/news2.php?lang=cht


和幾位鄰居，本打算去聽CEDD 的公眾論壇，但原來已滿額。心裏狐疑。在網上翻看他們的舊照片 http://www.landsupply.hk/news2.php?lang=cht，第一次的公眾論壇，偌大一個會堂，有小貓三四隻，其中有CEDD的人和他們公關公司的人還説不定。

我們回家看了「網上直播」。今天打開網頁，想仔細再看一遍，但原來錄影沒有放在網上；找一找，2月4號的第一次論壇的錄影，也沒有。http://www.landsupply.hk/liveStream.php?lang=cht

這個網址有一頁叫「公眾參與摘要」，http://www.landsupply.hk/stage1PEDigest.php?lang=cht 只有CEDD上載著圖文並茂的「宣傳」。

而「網上討論區」，慢得像螞蟻上樹，幾十秒打不開一個「page」。等每一頁「load」，等到肺裂。要把這個主題的討論內容看完，要好幾個不眠的晚上。陰謀論是：他們要悶走市民。http://www.landsupply.hk/forum.php?lang=cht

所以，現在講昨天的「公眾論壇」，只能憑記憶。

論壇台上的參與者，一字排開十來人，有學者和專家，嚴陣以待，一致「支持填海取地」，這討論集會，原來是他們宣傳填海取地的平台。

這樣的「論壇」！見識了。

論壇由CEDD的「公關公司」籌辦。主持人聽起來像電台DJ，代市民讀出意見時，很急速；聲音低的時候像頌經。其間不忘提醒「觀眾」，他只是「主持」。台上有一位數度發言的「專家學者」，大義凜然，指出香港應該自己担當「建築廢料」。不該移送他人。一直，香港把建築廢料運到台山，已在那裏造了一個幾千公頃的人造島。香港理應填海。

處理建築廢料，是一個很大的議題，真要花點時間搜集資料，好好了解一下。填海作土地儲備，是另外一個議題。「處理建築廢料」等如要「填海取地」，這是甚麽邏輯？

CEDD 的代表，多次提醒我們，態度不失坦誠。指填海計劃未拍板，諮詢活動，有助厘定「填海選址」的準則。

唉，馬鞍山不幸被「選中」。原來，這樣翻天覆地的大事，是沒經過準則鍳定的。

遠行在即，邀請了其他 seaside hikers 來一起保衛烏溪沙海灣，編寫這網誌，暫别。

Hetty

保衛烏溪沙海灣 - 一些 youtube

噢，我在網上發現了一些烏溪沙海灣的 youtube ，希望原作者不介意我把 hyper link 放在這裏，和大家分享：

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SewYmCO49U0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDeXqaJ3Tik&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdMUMUz6nSY&feature=related