FIRED UP: The legislature’s Health, Environment and Labor Committee met to review the project, amid protest outside and heated comments before and after the meeting
Taipei Times
Date: Apr 17, 2018
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
The controversy over the Shenao Power Plant heated up yesterday as Environmental
Members of a group opposing Taiwan Power Co’s plan to rebuild the Shenao coal-fired power plant in New Taipei City’s Rueifang District yesterday hold placards at a demonstration outside the Legislative Yuan in Taipei. Photo: Liao Chen-huei, Taipei Times
Protection Administration (EPA) and New Taipei City Government officials quibbled over the project’s potential impact on a fisheries conservation area and other issues.
State-run Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) wants to build a coal-fired plant on the site of the old Shenao plant, which was near Rueifang District’s (瑞芳) Shenao Harbor (深澳灣).
The company’s original plan to build a new plant on the site passed an environmental impact assessment (EIA) in 2006, and the EPA on March 14 approved the firm’s environmental impact difference analysis report covering proposed changes to the project.
That decision triggered widespread controversy and protests by local residents, environmental groups and lawmakers. [FULL STORY]