Policy Address | Hazardous material storage to be located in Ka-Hó

At his policy debate session at the Legislative Assembly last week, Chan Pou Ha, director of the Land, Transport and Public Works Bureau, disclosed for the first time that the much-debated hazardous material storage will likely be permanently located in Ka-Hó.
It will be housed in the Desafio Jovem, a drug counseling center located on a hill. It means that the transport and public works branch will need to request usage rights from the social affairs and culture branch of the government.
Justifying the decision, Chan’s superintendent, Secretary for Transport and Public Works Raimundo do Rosário said, “Locating the permanent storage on the hill and in the center of [nowhere] should raise no other debate.”
Below the proposed permanent storage will sit the new prison of the city, which is now being built, according to a source familiar with the location.
The previously proposed plan of locating the storage on a reclaimed island will be scrapped. In replacement, a mid-way storage for the materials will be built on the island instead.
Oppositions have been heard previously when the government proposed to build a makeshift storage in Cotai. AL