Taiwan increasingly committed to care of environment
Taipei (AsiaNews) - In the last few weeks studies and guidelines are intensifying to make Taiwan more healthy and less contaminated by pollutants. Just yesterday, the Office for Environmental Protection of Yunlin (云林 环保局) presented a detailed analysis of the air quality in the center and south of the island.
Especially in the eighties and nineties, the island of Taiwan, was the star of a quick and miraculous industrialization but at a high price with heavy pollution: in those days the island was devoid of appropriate laws to combat the discharge of polluting substances into rivers, the subsoil and air. Since that time, the government and the provinces have come a long way in improving the situation, to the point that two years ago the construction of a large metallurgical company in Taichung was blocked, unless it came up with a solution to the impact it would have had on the air quality.
The problem now arises in
particular fertilizers and waste from fish farms which discharge dust particles
into the air, with negative consequences on the health of the inhabitants.
In
the provincial Yunlin (云林 县) fine particles reach a daily average
value of 84.17 micrograms per cubic meter, two and a half times the upper limit
for the health safety standards, in the city of Chiayi (嘉义 市) values are even of 102.67 and in
the city of Kaohsiung (高雄市) of 90.67.
The
data is very important for the preparation of Yunlin Agri-Expo of 2013, in
which Taiwanese agriculture, which has developed high production efficiency in recent
years, will be able to set limits for ecologically sustainable agricultural
industries .
Even in the construction industry, construction companies must comply with new much stricter regulations, set by the council of the New City of Taipei (新 北市, including all the urban area around the center of the city of Taipei, 台北市). Meanwhile, the new online application system for about 8 thousand annual requests for construction will eliminate all the waste of fuel needed to reach the offices for the relevant paperwork.
The construction of a fourth nuclear power plant on the island is also now under discussion, given that it must now respond to stricter safety standards. Despite the sharp increase in wind and solar energy, the hunger for electricity is increasing and a safe and clean nuclear power seems the most appropriate response for the time being.
But the debate on the opportunity has been rekindled in recent months. Next week Andre Claude Lacoste, the former head of the French nuclear safety board will be in Taiwan. He will participate in a forum on the issue, with a speech on "New Challenges for nuclear safety from the point of view of government regulations."
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