Taipei Times
Date: Mar 29, 2018
By: Staff writer, with CNA
A number of environmental groups yesterday protested outside the Executive Yuan in
Members of environmental groups wear masks as they protest outside the Executive Yuan in Taipei yesterday, calling on the Cabinet to withdraw its plan to open the rebuilt Shenao Power Plant in New Taipei City. The text on the masks reads “Withdraw.” Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
Taipei to demand that the government withdraw its plan to open the rebuilt coal-fired Shenao Power Plant in New Taipei City.
About 50 people from organizations including the Green Citizens’ Action Alliance, Greenpeace, the Homemakers United Foundation and Citizen of the Earth, Taiwan carried signs reading “Withdraw” and demanded that a representative of the Cabinet come out and face the crowd.
Tsai Ya-ying (蔡雅瀅), an attorney with the Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association, criticized the process by which the Environmental Protection Administration’s (EPA) Environmental Impact Assessment Committee conducted the review that led to the decision to expand and open the power plant.
The process was flawed on many counts, Tsai said, including the many alterations to the proposal made by state-run utility Taiwan Power Co which had made it necessary for the project to be re-evaluated. [FULL STORY]
