ACT urges Mailiao Harbor be used as LNG terminal siteBy Hsieh Chun-lin and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerAir 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. From left, Lin Fu-yuan, spokesman for Air Clean Taiwan’s (ACT) Yunlin branch, Taisi Village Sixth Naphtha Cracker Pollution and Harm Self-help Association director Hwang Yuan-her, ACT director Jeremy Yang and ACT chairman Yeh Guang-perng hold a news conference in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Peter Lo, Taipei TimesHe suggested the Port of Taipei for the Taoyuan terminal and Mailiao Harbor for another site, as the southern port at Mailiao is lying idle and is near an empty plot of land. ACT chairman Yeh Guang-perng (葉光芃) said the agency’s unsolicited upgrade has caused the regions’ leaders to mistakenly believe that they are meeting the standards, he said.

Source: Taipei Times March 15, 2021 15:56 UTC