MOVEMENT: While lawmakers demanded guarantees that the power plant would not be built, a plan to replace coal-fired generators in Taichung had its first environmental review
Taipei Times
Date: Oct 16, 2018
By: Lin Chia-nan / Staff reporter
The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) yesterday caved in to demands by lawmakers
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) legislators Alicia Wang, second left, Huang Chao-shun, third left, KMT caucus secretary-general William Tseng, center, and KMT Legislator Chiang Wan-an, third right, hold placards at a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: CNA
that it revoke the planned coal-fired Shenao Power Plant’s (深澳電廠) environmental impact assessment (EIA) approval within two months, after being pressured by members of the legislature’s Social Welfare and Environmental Hygiene Committee
Taiwan Power Co’s (Taipower) previous Shenao plant in New Taipei City’s Rueifang District (瑞芳) was decommissioned in 2007 and demolished in 2011, but a proposal by the state-run utility to build a new plant at the site passed an EIA in 2006.
While the utility’s revised plan for the project also passed an EIA in May, Premier William Lai (賴清德), faced with protests, on Friday last week announced that the plans would be shelved, saying that electricity supply would be assured after CPC Corp, Taiwan’s third liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project passed an EIA on Monday last week.
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