Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/20
By: Tsai Fan-min and Ko Lin

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Taipei, April 20 (CNA) The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has requested state-run Taiwan Power Co. (Taipower) to build a new waste treatment facility for its coal-fired power plant in Taichung in two years, it said Saturday.

According to the Taichung City government, the plant is the largest single stationary source of air pollution in central Taiwan and has recently been found to have repeatedly discharged polluted wastewater.

Taipower has therefore been asked to increase the Taichung Power Plant’s wastewater treatment capacity, with the project due for completion within two years, Deputy Economic Affairs Minister Tseng Wen-sheng (曾文生) said.

Before that, however, Taipower has serious short-term challenges.    [FULL  STORY]