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ACT urges Mailiao Harbor be used as LNG terminal site
By Hsieh Chun-lin and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Air Clean Taiwan (ACT) yesterday suggested southern Yunlin County’s Mailiao Harbor (麥寮港) as a potential location for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, saying that it would save algal reefs and 20 million lives in western Taiwan.
Addressing Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) in a news conference at the Legislative Yuan, ACT Yunlin representative Lin Fu-yuan (林富源) blasted CPC Corp, Taiwan’s planned location for its third LNG terminal.
The project would sacrifice the algal reefs off the coast of Datan Borough (大潭) in Taoyuan’s Guanyin District (觀音), Lin said, urging the ministry to come up with an alternative plan.
‘IMPOSSIBLE’: An LNG plant and terminal can be built in Mailiao to replace coal-fired plants, but not as a substitute for the Datan project, Wang Mei-hua saidBy Angelica Oung / Staff reporter
Mailiao cannot replace Datan: MOEA
‘IMPOSSIBLE’: An LNG plant and terminal can be built in Mailiao to replace coal-fired plants, but not as a substitute for the Datan project, Wang Mei-hua said
By Angelica Oung / Staff reporter
The Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) yesterday dismissed reports that the government is planning to replace the third liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal project in Taoyuan with an LNG terminal in Yunlin County’s Mailiao Township (麥寮).
The Chinese-language United Daily News yesterday cited “senior MOEA staff” as saying that President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) had asked Formosa Plastics Group (FPG, 台塑集團) chairman William Wong (王文淵) if the construction of an LNG terminal in Mailiao could be sped up.
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