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Without Health, We Don’t Need Taichung Coal-fired Power Plant: Tsai Ing-wen's Energy Policy Is Debunked

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 Without Health, We Don’t Need Taichung Coal-fired Power Plant: Tsai Ing-wen's Energy Policy Is Debunked

 

United Daily News Editorial (Taipei, Taiwan)

 

December 5, 2019


 Translation of an Excerpt

 

 

 

After Lu Shiow-yen became Taichung City Mayor, she hasn’t forgotten that Taichung residents sacked Lin Chia-lung and elected her as mayor principally because the pollution produced by the Taichung coal-fired power plant has exhausted Taichung residents’ tolerance. She recently invited seven local chiefs of central Taiwan to sign a joint declaration, protesting that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) eased the allowable volume of coal use, urging the central government to look squarely at air pollution, followed by joining the “Powering Past Coal Alliance.” All this was because the victims of the Taichung Power Plant were no longer limited to Taichung residents, but also reverberated to neighboring counties and cities. Tsai Ing-wen's energy policy has loopholes here and there, to the point of even forsaking people’s health as a burial sacrifice; in any case, it must be overhauled.

 

The dispute over pollution reduction of the Taichung Power Plant is not a fight between Blue and Green, but a fight over people's health and welfare. “Without health, we don’t need Taichung Power Plant”; this is the joint appeal of residents in central Taiwan. How to allocate the power supply across Taiwan in order to satisfy the needs of industries and people's livelihood is a problem that the central government must solve, and absolutely should not use the lives of local residents as the price. Currently, the Tsai government’s tempo in cutting coal has fallen far behind the international community, and it even can’t catch up with local governments; yet it is using green energy in the distant horizons to deceive the people. The United Nations Climate Summit is being held, while in Taiwan, nevertheless, a great battle broke out over “localities demand coal reduction, while the central government defends the burning of coal”; it is indeed extremely ironic.

 

When facing the irreconcilable problems of "nuclear-free" and "coal-free", Tsai Ing-wen chose to continue using the "nuclear-free" slogan catering to populism, yet evaded the challenge of "coal reduction", even deliberately concealing the severity of the pollution resulting from coal burning. In fact, after the plebiscite propositions on issues related to “using nuclear energy to nurture green energy" were adopted last yearend, they reflect an awakening of people toward the bitter fruit of “generating power with lungs” brought by a "nuclear-free homeland." With regard to this reality, only Tsai Ing-wen still pretends to be naive, asking residents in the central Taiwan to continue "generating power with love."

 

Ironically, with the heavy setbacks in the Tsai government’s diplomacy, Taiwan has been barred from international organizations, yet local governments are able to march toward the international community with efforts in reducing the use of coal. New Taipei City has joined the Powering Past Coal Alliance, organized by 91 states, local governments, and enterprises; Taichung City has also been invited and applied to join. Only the Tsai government is, nevertheless, "defending coal-fired power generation." Tsai Ing-wen's energy policy has loopholes, and cannot resolve the contradictions between "nuclear-free" and "coal-free"; now she has gone one step further, not minding to sacrifice people's health in order to accomplish her monumental task in energy resources. Regardless what kind of energy policy, it should not go against the people’s goal of pursuing health and welfare. The myth of Tsai Ing-wen's "nuclear-free homeland" has been debunked; her policies are presently harming the masses everywhere.

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