"Opposing nuclear energy is now an outdated trend," Ma said. Then, they rejected our signatures on September 13.”Organizers say they delivered additional signatures to increase their chance of qualifying and were rejected on a technicality. The rejection of signatures wasn’t the first time Taiwan’s government took actions which pro-nuclear activists say were designed to thwart their efforts. Last October, the climate scientist James Hansen and dozens of other leading environmental scientists and scholars urged President Tsai (致蔡英文總統公開信中文翻譯) to return to nuclear. “This hunger strike is not for myself and not for the public referendum,” said Huang, “it is for the democracy and the order of law in Taiwan.”

Source: Forbes September 18, 2018 02:50 UTC