“As the petrochemical industry expanded, the Taiwanese government’s slogan—“Energy Efficiency and Carbon Reduction”—has become for many Taiwanese people a joke, for they consume more energy than they produce. When Bao-lang Chen argued that the Eighth Naphtha Cracker Project would differ from Formosa Plastics’ Sixth Naphtha Cracker Plant because low-carbon green energy goals would be met, Chia-yang Tsai retorted that this would not reduce the pollution from the plant (“Chia-yang”). Tsai and other individuals involved in the anti-Kuokuang campaign were especially concerned about the impact of the petrochemical industry on the coastal fisheries in Taichung, Changhua, and Yunlin.” (Chang, 2023, p. 168)
