EPA Lacks Guts to Follow Through with Own Dolphin Impact Meetings
Christina MacFarquhar It sounded great – the “Expert Meeting on the Impacts of Relevant West Coast Development Projects on the Humpback Dolphins and Integrated Impact Reduction Measure
2009/08/11

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Ideologically Based Development: What’s the Point of Environmental Impact Assessment?
In 2007 nine members of the EPA’s environmental impact assessment commission co-signed a declaration to protest the Executive Yuan and other agencies’ use of media and personal pressure
2009/07/08

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Discussion with the military on dolphin impacts
On 2 June, representatives from Wild at Heart, Changhua Environmental Protection Union and Matsu’s Fish Conservation Union met with officials from the Ministry of National Defense to begin dis
2009/07/03

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Ministry of National Defense Responds on Bombardment of Dolphin Habitat
In response to the letter on 16 June 2009 from Wild at Heart expressing concern over the bombardment by Taiwan’s military of critically endangered humpback dolphin habitat off the coast of cen
2009/06/24

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Taiwan Military Fires Directly into Critically Endangered Humpback Dolphin Habitat
Kyodo News reported today: "Taiwan's military fired grenades and mortar shells into a key habitat for endangered dolphins during live-fire exercises Wednesday, an environmental protection
2009/06/17

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Sustainability? The Art of Hypocrisy Reaches New Heights
While the rest of the world is concerned with climate destabilization and governments are taking pains to find ways of addressing water resource utilization, we see our Taiwan government engaged in
2009/06/10

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# Images of Taichung Coal-Fired Power Plant, May 2009
See the Save the Humpback dolphin blog* for recent images of Taichung coal-fired power plant (the biggest CO2-emitting power plant in the world), whose effluent flows into humpback dolphin habitat.
2009/05/19

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Update and Continuing Concerns Regarding Incidental Harassment Authorisation for L-DEO Marine Seismic Survey in SE Asia
Further to previous posts on this issue, in February this year a number of NGOs and individuals wrote to the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) expressing concern over the proposed transe
2009/04/28

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