DPP supports Wuchiu Township's opposition to nuclear waste
ROC Central News Agency
2010/09/14 20:12:56
By Ni Kuo-yen, Lin Huei-chun and Elizabeth Hsu
Taipei, Sept. 14 (CNA) The opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) expressed support Tuesday for the people of the island township of Wuchiu in their opposition a day earlier to plans to make the remote group of islets in the Taiwan Strait a site for nuclear waste disposal.
"You don't bully Wuchiu people merely because their population is small. You don't abuse the land only because it is remote, " said Wung Chih-ming of the DPP's branch office in Kinmen County, which administers Wuchiu Township, after township chief Chen Hsin-chiu and Tsai Wan-chun, head of the township people's representatives, pledged to defend their homes from nuclear waste pollution.
Wuchiu, which comprises two main islands, Dachiu and Shaochiu, lies 72 nautical miles east of Kinmen. The township covers only 1.2 square kilometers of land, on which live around 50 people as permanent residents, along with several hundred military personnel.
The only way to get to Wuchiu is by military boats, which sail between Taichung Harbor and the islands every 10 days.
Wung said the DPP will launch a campaign on Kinmen to call for a referendum against the proposal to use Wuchiu as the country's low-level radioactive waste dump.
The Ministry of Economic Affairs also selected the remote Daren Township in eastern Taiwan's Taitung County as another potential dump site Monday.
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