Central Science Park Phase 4 Report 1: Changhua and Yunlin County Residents Protest Against Industrial Effluent Discharge Plans
Christina MacFarquhar In response to protest by residents, farmers and aquaculture farmers in Changhua County against effluent discharge plans from a major high-tech industrial development project
2009/08/18

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Three ?s for Acer from Environmental NGOs
Pollution at this End, Greenwash on the Other End Expose Acer’s Disguise of CSR Over the years Acer has transformed itself from a manufacturer into a company that focuses on the global marke
2008/12/12

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Formosa Plastic Group's Yunlin Steel Mill Needs More Review
Lee Ken-cheng In March of this year, a subcommittee of the Environmental Impact Assessment Committee decided that the Formosa Plastics Group's (FPG) US$4 billion steel mill project in Yunlin C
2007/11/14

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More Water for Formosa Means Less for Taiwan
According to a report buried on page 20 of the September 29 edition of the Apple Daily, a subcommittee was formed to review Formosa Plastic's application to increase its water allowance from 251
2007/10/02

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Formosa Steel Plant Update
Formosa's reclamation site in Mailiao (photo by M. Wilkie) Save the Taiwan Humpback Dolphins has the following post on the Formosa Steel Plant, a project that has been proposed by Formosa Pl
2007/09/27

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Proposal to Build, Operate and Trash Jibei Island Blocked
by Christina MacFarquhar Residents of Jibei Island, located in the north of the Penghu archipelago, were joined this spring by environmental groups and legislators in a successful attempt to block
2006/05/11

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EIA Review Commissioners' Joint Statement
This statement expresses protest against interference by the Executive Yuan in the professional work of EIA commissioners, and insists that all development cases should be subject to an identical an
2006/04/06

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TAIC toxic pollution disaster: some compensation….
On 27 January 2006, residents of Hsiengong and Luermen townships in Tainan County received a long-awaited first installment of compensation from the EPA. The monthly sum of NT$1814 per person is
2006/03/01
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