Guanying Township residents rally to drive away destructive forces

This year on the 24th September, a story regarding the building of an oil refinery in Taoyuan’s High-Tech Industrial Park hit the headlines and aroused a storm of protest from locals. Guanyin Township has a surface area of 87.79 square kilometers or 8515 hectares, of which around 776 are already used as an industrial zone. The factories have brought with them a great deal of pollution and consequently lowered the quality of life for people living in the area. If plans for this high-pollution, high-energy consumption oil refinery go ahead then it is bound to have adverse affects on both the health of local people and their living environment. In response, a group of locals have formed an action group and begun fighting the plans through the launching of a 10,000-signature petition and a drama to draw attention to their plight. The group is asking citizens of the area to stand up and express their views, and warned that silence and apathy will only bring pollution and great devastation to the area.

(以下是中文對照)

觀音鄉民大團結趕走汙染大怪獸 ( CJ dkriver )

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今年九月24日，報紙報導「桃園煉油廠遷廠，縣府屬意觀塘工業區。」引起當地民眾譁然，觀音鄉面積約87.79平方公里，也就是8779甲地，已經有超過
800甲的土地屬於工業區，工廠帶來汙染，造成附近居家生活品質降低，若還要把高汙染、高耗能的「煉油廠」搬到觀音，對當地民眾健康與生活，預料將會產生
更嚴重的影響。因此有一群反對煉油廠遷廠至觀音的民眾開始發動萬人連署，在校園間自導自演行動劇，呼籲?家鄉有難，請大家來連署，趕走汙染大怪獸！?也呼
籲鄉親表示意見，不要沉默以對，會產生汙染的大怪獸順理成章的來到觀音。

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