Mr Tsang promised only to continue trying to boost the supply of land and find potential new areas for land reclamation.
Land reclamation: process of creating new, dry land on the seabed.
It merely provoked angry locals into questioning why so much money had been spent on a seemingly irrelevant bit of land reclamation rather than on themselves.
The landfill, Land Reclamation Services, reopened and is still operating.
Tensions over the battle of the ports have been running high - exacerbated by a land reclamation project just off the coast of Singapore which Malaysia says is affecting the flow and depth of the shipping channel.
In Chiba, Miss Domoto wants to cancel a land-reclamation project that Tokyo's bureaucrats have been pushing for nearly 30 years.
In the past, the principality has eased its property shortage with land-reclamation projects, including a major program led by Prince Rainier in the 1960s and 1970s.
Referendums have prompted public hearings on controversial decisions, a procedure that the construction ministry this week made mandatory for land-reclamation projects, which may have an effect on the wider environment.
His government also hauled Singapore before two different international tribunals, over both Pedra Blanca and a Singaporean land-reclamation scheme along the Johor strait, the narrow channel separating the two countries.
Prince Albert II, the reigning monarch, has flirted with the idea of another land-reclamation project, inviting bids and briefly giving his support in 2010 to a design by Daniel Libeskind, the architect who drew up the master plan for the reconstruction of New York's World Trade Center.
The Bureaus of Land Management and Reclamation subsidize development throughout the West.
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The inquiry followed the planning application made by Miller Argent for the reclamation of land which also includes extracting coal by opencast methods.
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Much of the Hong Kong waterfront is land reclaimed from the sea, but reclamation can't keep up with population.
The government itself accelerated the trend, releasing huge tracts of land to private developers while pouring tax revenues into expensive desert-reclamation projects.
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