Environmental groups protest air pollution in Kaohsiung

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/12/15
By: Liao Yu-yang, Yang Su-min and Chiang Yi-ching

Kaohsiung, Dec. 15 (CNA) Environmentalists in Taiwan's southern port city of Kaohsiung on Sunday protested for cleaner air in the wake of air pollution caused by coal-fired power generators and factory emissions.

The "Kaohsiung Combating Climate Change and Anti-Air Pollution Rally" was organized by the environmental group South Taiwan Air Clear.

Prior to the rally, the group had laid out five demands, including decommissioning the nearly 40-year-old Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) run Hsinta Power Plant in 2020 and forbidding China Steel from refining petcoke at the company's Kaohsiung plant.

The group is also calling for state-run businesses, such as Taipower, China Steel and the CPC Corporation, Taiwan, to decrease their use of coal by 30 percent, as these businesses generate more than half of the pollution created by stationary sources in Kaohsiung, the group said.
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