Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-07-03

Environmental protesters have demanded Taiwan’s state-run petroleum company scrap plans for a natural gas receiving station on the country’s northern coast.

Outside the Environmental Protection Administration in Taipei on Tuesday, a group of protesters called for the preservation of algae reefs at Datan in northern Taiwan’s Taoyuan municipality. A nearby plant run by state-run oil and gas company CPC Corp plans to build a third natural gas receiving station. But, the protesters say, this would endanger a rich ecosystem that shelters endangered species – and may not even be necessary.
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