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(Taipei Times) -- Plans by the
Formosa PlasticsGroup to make alterations to the phase-four expansion at its
naphtha cracker in Yunlin’s Mailiao Township did not pass the Environmental
Protection Administration’s (EPA) Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) review.
The company was asked to rethink its plan and file supplementary information for
further review.
Formosa Group had proposed the additional construction of polycrystalline
silicon solar application plants (initially part of its phase-five expansion)
and hydrogenated styrenic block copolymer plants, which together would have
increased production capacity by 6.01 percent more than the original phase-four
expansion project.
In April, the EIA committee considered the new proposals and concluded
that they involved too many alterations. Then it asked Formosa Group to rethink
its plans and provided supplementary documents for further review. Yesterday the
group said the increase in production capacity was below 10 percent (alterations
that exceed 10 percent are required to re-apply for an EIA review) and it had
the capacity to deal with increased waste.
The planned alteration to the project would call for an additional 4 KT
of water, which the group said would also be self-supplied.
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