GREAT RESPONSIBILITY:The plant could be the biggest investment in Taiwanese history, but before it can be realized, permits, water and electricity supply need to be taken care of

Taipei Times
Date: Oct 02, 2017
By: Staff writer, with CNA

The environmental impact assessment (EIA) report on a massive investment project to build a new fab in the south announced by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電) is expected to be completed in one-and-a-half years to ensure that TSMC can go ahead with its plans, the Southern Taiwan Science Park Bureau said on Saturday.

TSMC aims to build an advanced 3-nanometer foundry in the Tainan Science Park (台南科學園區), which is a part of the Southern Taiwan Science Park (南部科學工業園).

Taiwan Science Park Administration director-general Lin Wei-cheng (林威呈) said that his office would need about one year to collect information about the project’s possible effect on the environment.

The bureau, which is supervised by the Ministry of Science and Technology, will need an additional six months to finish the assessment report before a 30-hectare plot of land can be assigned for construction of the new facility by the end of 2020, Lin said.  [FULL  STORY]