Just when particulate filters were placed on our coal power plant stacks, and our skies turned blue around Lantau Island, the Government have gone ahead and approved one of the World's largest incinerators to be built in Shek Kwu Chau. Chi Ma Wan Peninsula pictured below.

This is the slowest, most environmentally destructive and most expensive of Hong Kong's options for waste treatment. The EIA has currently withdrawn, but the project is still planned to go ahead.

If you've ever hiked along South Lantau on Lantau Trail Stages 8 & 9, Chi Ma Wan Penninsula, South Lantau Country Trail, or Lantau/Sunset Peak you would have seen Shek Kwu Chau located between Cheung Chau and the Soko Islands, just off the Chi Ma Wan Peninsula. Below is a shot of the Soko Islands off of Lantau Trail Stage 9, which are located to the west of Shek Kwu Chau.

If you haven't hiked these trails, then you'll probably never see these islands again, or certainly not in the way that you can see them now. Instead they'll be covered in the haze that most office workers in Central and Causeway Bay are used to.

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石鼓洲並非一個合適處理垃圾的地點 Shek Kwu Chau wrong place for burning Hong Kong lap sap. If you'd like to learn more about Shek Kwu Chau and it's planned incinerator you can visit Our Shek Kwu Chau. Pictured below, Soko Islands from Lantau Trail Stage 8.