Taipei, April 10 (CNA) Economics Minister Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said Monday that Taiwan's current fuel inventory is enough to last for 11 days, which is adequate during the three-day military exercises being held in surrounding areas by China.
YEAR-LONG PLAN: Increased storage would improve national security and create more space to store coal that goes unused as the nation transitions to clean energyBy Lin Ching-hua and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer
CPC Corp, Taiwan (CPC, 台灣中油) on Friday held a groundbreaking ceremony for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank project in Taichung.
The project, part of the phase 3 expansion of CPC’s Taichung LNG receiving terminal, is scheduled to be completed in 2026 and should increase the company’s annual supply capability by up to 10 million tonnes at its Taichung plant.
After completion, the two 180-million-liter LNG storage tanks would give CPC the capacity to supply LNG to power generation facilities and industrial users in central and northern Taiwan, the state-run oil company said.
The ceremony was attended by CPC chairman Lee Shun-chin
As a longtime advocate of environmental protection, I voted “no” in the four referendum questions at the end of last year with hardly any hesitation. Restarting construction at the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City’s Gongliao District (貢寮), banning imports of US pork with traces of ractopamine and holding elections concurrently with referendums were easy decisions.
However, on the question of relocating Taiwan’s third liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal project from Taoyuan’s Guantang Industrial Park (觀塘工業區), I struggled to decide.
Many people voted against the relocation because of how the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) had politicized the issue, but another