FIVE DEMANDS: Establishing new regulations for coal use would not be feasible, the Kaohsiung environmental bureau said, adding that it already restricts coal burning
Taipei Times
Date: Nov 12, 2018
By: Lin Chia-nan and Wang Jung-hsiang / Staff reporters
Thousands of people yesterday marched in Kaohsiung against air pollution,
Demonstrators participate in a march organized by the Southern Taiwan Anti-Air Pollution Alliance in Kaohsiung yesterday. Photo: Wang Jung-hsiang, Taipei Times
calling on the city government to regulate coal burning and scrap a planned petrochemical plant near an elementary school.
The march started at Kaohsiung MRT Central Park Station at 1pm, from where protesters made their way to Kaohsiung City Hall.
It was the second of three marches against air pollution planned for this month and drew nearly 5,000 people, event organizer Southern Taiwan Anti-Air Pollution Alliance convener Chen Jiau-hua (陳椒華) said.
The alliance has five demands: that the city government limit local plants’ coal use; a trade mechanism between stationary and mobile pollution sources stipulated in the Air Pollution Control Act (空氣污染防制法) be abolished; China Steel Corp (中鋼, CSC) transform its coke wet quenching tower into a dry one; Taiwan Power Co (台電) convert coal-fired units at the city’s Sinda (興達) and Dalin (大林) power plants to gas-fired ones; and that Taiwan-Japan Oxo Chemical Industries Inc (曄揚) scrap a plan to build petrochemical plant 200m from an elementary school, it said.
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