Read the full judgment text of HCAL 1310/2021 on BabelCite. This High Court CFI judgment was delivered on 30 June 2022.
1. The West New Territories Landfill (“WENT”) has operated since the 1990s, serving as the largest waste disposal site in Hong Kong. The Government expects the WENT’s capacity to be exhausted in around 2026 and has proposed to extend the site (“WENTX Project”). Within the Government, the project is mainly driven by the Environment Bureau (“EB”), headed by the Secretary for the Environment (“SEN”), and the Environmental Protection Department (“EPD”) headed by the Director of Environmental Protect