Tse Chin-wan Says Pursuing Environmental Protection Has “No End”, Easily Used as an “Anti-Government Excuse”
謝展寰稱追求環保「無盡頭」 容易被人作為「反政府藉口」
The Wen Wei Po has published interviews with senior officials for several consecutive days. Today’s interview was with Secretary for Environment and Ecology Tse Chin-wan. He said that, in addition to increasing the department’s “presence” by tackling hygiene black spots, he was explaining for the first time why organisations receiving Environmental Protection Fund subsidies are required to sign a National Security Law declaration. He said environmental issues are highly “subjective”, and that “there is no end to how far one can pursue” environmental protection, making them easy to hype up and even use as an “anti-government excuse”.
《文匯報》連續數日刊登高官訪問，今日其中一篇是有關環境及生態局局長謝展寰，他除了稱部門透過打擊衞生黑點，增加「存在感」，他又首次解釋受環保基金資助的團體，為何要簽署國安法聲明。他稱環保議題很「主觀」、「怎樣追求都沒有盡頭」，容易被炒作，甚至作為「反政府藉口」。