Taipei Times
Date: Apr 24, 2018
By: Lin Chia-nan  /  Staff reporter

Environmental groups yesterday filed an application with the Cabinet’s Ill-gotten Party Assets Settlement Committee requesting an investigation into whether the land on which state-run CPC Corp, Taiwan plans to build a liquefied natural gas terminal had been obtained legally.

CPC plans to build a gas terminal off the coast of Datan Borough (大潭) in Taoyuan’s Guanyin District (觀音) and expects it to start supplying gas to state-run Taiwan Power Co’s Datan Power Plant from 2022.

Environmentalists working to protect Datan’s ecosystem from damage by the project have recently shifted their focus to CPC’s allegedly questionable holding.

The coast belongs to the public and should not have been sold, as stipulated by the Land Act (土地法), Taoyuan Local Union director Pan Chong-cheng (潘忠政) told a news conference at the legislature in Taipei yesterday.    [FULL  STORY]