Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/03/18
By: Lin Chang-shun and Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, March 18 (CNA) Premier Lai Ching-te (賴清德) visited the coal-fired Linkou Power

Premier Lai Ching-te (賴清德, third right)

Plant in New Taipei Sunday in an attempt to ease public concerns over possible air quality degradation stemming from the government’s decision to expand the Shen’ao coal-fired power plant, also in New Taipei.

“When coal-fired power generation is a necessity for Taiwan, the Linkou Power Plant, equipped with the most advanced generators and pollution control and abatement systems and burning the types of coal that have the fewest impurities is the model we look toward,” Lai told reporters before touring the plant.

The Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) gave a green light March 14 to a request by state-run Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) to expand the Shen’ao plant by installing two additional coal-burning generators with 600,000 kilowatts of capacity each, provoking a public outcry.    [FULL  STORY]