Taipei Times
Date: Nov 19, 2018
By: Lin Chia-nan and Su Meng-chuan / Staff reporters
Taichung’s air quality did not improve as much as the government has claimed, as it
A man carries a child on his shoulders at an anti-pollution march in Taichung yesterday. Photo: Liao Yao-tung, Taipei Times
only ranked eighth among all municipalities with regard to its reduction of airborne particles last year, Air Clean Taiwan chairman Yeh Guang-perng (葉光芃) said at a march in Taichung yesterday, where protesters demanded clean air.
The group said that about 4,000 people attended the event, which was the last of three large-scale demonstrations against air pollution this month.
Participants marched in the afternoon from Taichung Civic Square to the plaza in front of the Taichung City Hall.
Demanding an environment with no coal, the group urged the government to decommission Taichung Power Plant’s 10 coal-fired units and not to interfere with environmental impact assessment procedures as it said Premier William Lai (賴清德) had done last month by pushing through CPC Corp, Taiwan’s plan to build a third liquefied natural gas terminal in Taoyuan. [FULL STORY]
