Puyuma protest plan to build solar power plant
By Chen Hsien-yi and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Members of the Puyuma people yesterday urged the Taitung County Government to scrap plans for a solar power plant on a 161 hectare plot of land near the estuary of the Jhihben River (知本溪).
Taitung City Councilor Chen Cheng-tsung (陳政宗), acting head of the Mafaliu branch of Taitung County’s Aboriginal Katatipul community, accused the county government of hastily passing an ill-designed project while excluding Aborigines from the negotiating process.
The land was, in 2018 when the county government was discussing the project, mostly traditional Aboriginal land, Chen said.