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No referendum, no nuclear plant – they’re saying, in Taiwan

Activists want no referendum and no nuclear plant Taipei Times, By Lee I-chia  /  Staff reporter 17 Sept 13 During the first day of the new legislative session yesterday, anti-nuclear power environmentalists again gathered in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, calling on legislators to stop the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao (貢寮), New Taipei City (新北市), and withdraw the referendum proposal on the plant.

Taiwan Environmental Protection Union founding chairman Shih Hsin-min (施信民) said the referendum proposal suggested by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lee Ching-hua (李慶華) is aimed at exploiting the “problematic” Referendum Act (公民投票法), ignoring public opinion and supporting the Cabinet’s will of allowing the plant to go into operation…….. Pan said the public is invited to join in a “Fourth Nuclear Power Plant termination” relay walk around the nation, ending at the Presidential Office on Jan. 1.http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/09/18/2003572423

September 18, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | ACTION