Penny's Bay or Chok Ko Wan (traditional Chinese: 竹篙灣) is a bay in north-eastern Lantau Island, and is the site of the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, which consists of the Hong Kong Disneyland theme park, Disneyland Hotel, and Disney's Hollywood Hotel, and the Inspiration Lake. Lantau Island, also Lantao, based on the old local name of Lantau Peak ( lit HongKongDisneylandResortjpg|150px|right|thumb|Hong Kong Disneyland Resort]]The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort ( was built by the Government Hong Kong Disneyland ( is the first Theme park inside the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and is owned and managed by the Hong Kong International Theme Parks Theme park is the generic term for a collection of rides and other Entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a large group Disney's Hollywood Hotel one of two Hotels at Hong Kong Disneyland Resort in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Inspiration Lake ( official name The Inspiration Lake Recreation Centre ( is a 12-hectare Artificial lake located in Penny's Bay, Lantau Island It is connected by a highway and a rail connection on the MTR Disneyland Resort Line to Sunny Bay Station. MTR, or Mass Transit Railway, is the Rapid transit Railway system in Hong Kong. The ( is an MTR line connecting Yam O to the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort. Sunny Bay is an MTR station in Yam O (陰澳 It is between Tung Chung and Tsing
Dioxin contamination
Before the reclamation of the bay, Cheoy Lee Shipyard operated in the bay from 1964 to April 2001. The Government acquired the land from the owners for the sum of HK$1. 48 billion, and paid HK$22. 7 million in additional compensation, according to a Public Works Subcommittee paper from May 2002.
The Government had not realised that its operations accumulated 30000 cubic metres of soil contaminated with dioxin, heavy metals, and hydrocarbons. Not to be confused with Dioxane or Digoxin. Dioxin is a heterocyclic, organic, antiaromatic compound In Organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an Organic compound consisting entirely of Hydrogen and Carbon. The solid waste was dug up and transferred to To Kau Wan on the north shore of Northeast Lantau for temporary processing, and finally incinerated at the Chemical Waste Treatment Centre on the Tsing Yi Island amidst protests by residents. To Kau Wan ( is a bay in north shore of northeast Lantau Island, Hong Kong. Incineration is a waste treatment technology that involves the Combustion of organic materials and/or substances Tsing Yi ( or Tsing Yi Island ( is an Island of Hong Kong, to the northwest of Hong Kong Island and south of Tsuen Wan. The total cleanup cost not taken into account at the time of acquisition was estimated at 450 million Hong Kong dollars[1].
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- 一齣環保悲喜劇 (Chinese) – Friends of the Earth (HK)
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