BE REASONABLE: Citing a 2000 Harvard study, DPP Legislator Wu Kun-yuh said vehicle emissions are three times more deadly than those of a coal-burning plant
Taipei Times
Date: May 08, 2018
By: Lin Chia-nan and Chiu Yen-ling / Staff reporters
As state-run Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) is to deliver a report on its proposed Shenao
“Aunties” Alliance, the Taiwan Treehugger Alliance and other environmental groups yesterday wave banners outside the Taichung City Government building to demand that officials release the results of an air pollution assessment. Photo: CNA
Power Plant (深澳電廠) at the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) tomorrow, Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Legislator Wu Kun-yuh (吳焜裕) yesterday called on the public to be rational regarding concern over potential pollution from the plant.
The utility’s plans to build the coal-fired Shenao plant in New Taipei City’s Rueifang District (瑞芳) has faced renewed criticism after its updated environmental impact report covering changes to the project was on March 14 passed by the EPA’s environmental impact assessment (EIA) grand assembly.
The committee required the utility to submit supplementary documentation and its supervising agency — the Ministry of Economic Affairs — to offer a year-by-year roadmap detailing how they are to achieve the goal of generating 50 percent of electricity from natural gas, 30 percent from coal and 20 percent from renewable sources by 2025.
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