Under the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance, Environmental Permits must be obtained before major infrastructure projects can proceed. MTR adopts a positive 'ownership' approach to Environmental Permits and takes the responsibility for obtaining and maintaining the permit for each of our projects, rather than requiring individual contractors to apply for them. Apart from its success in environmental terms, we estimate that this 'One Project - One Permit' approach is 50 - 60% more cost-effective than requiring each contractor to obtain his own Environmental Permit from Government with the added benefit of improved programme control.

 

 

 

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