A tanker seen at a refinery in Mailiao Harbor, Yunlin County, belonging to Formosa Petrochemical Corp (台塑石化) was delivering crude oil bought from Russia, the company said on Thursday.
As Western nations have stepped up sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, local environmental groups have been calling for Formosa Petrochemical, one of the nation’s major oil refiners, to boycott Russian oil to avoid providing Moscow with any economic assistance.
In a post on social media on Wednesday, Air Clean Taiwan, an environmental protection organization, said the tanker NS Point transported up to 40,000 tonnes of oil that Formosa Petrochemical bought
Taipei, June 2 (CNA) A tanker recently seen at a refinery plant in Mailiao harbor, Yunlin County, belonging to Formosa Petrochemical Corp. (FPCC) was delivering oil products bought from Russia, the company confirmed Thursday.
Representatives of the environmental groups Air Clean Taiwan and Changhua Medical Alliance hold a news conference in Taipei yesterday urging the government to codify its “zero carbon by 2050” pledge into law, and to prioritize replacing Russian oil and gas imports.
ACT urges Mailiao Harbor be used as LNG terminal site
By Hsieh Chun-lin and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Air 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.
The project would sacrifice the algal reefs off the coast of Datan Borough (大潭) in Taoyuan’s Guanyin District (觀音), Lin said, urging the ministry to come up with an alternative plan.
‘IMPOSSIBLE’: An LNG plant and terminal can be built in Mailiao to replace coal-fired plants, but not as a substitute for the Datan project, Wang Mei-hua saidBy Angelica Oung / Staff reporter