Additional environmental review likely for project in Taiwan
Yangmingshan National Park, near Taipei, Taiwan (source: flickr/ Ken Marshall, creative commons)
Francisco Rojas
24 Aug 2015
The project proposes drilling 10 geothermal wells in Lize in Yilan County’s Wujie Township over a 10-year period to eventually generate up to 101MW.
Last week, the Yilan Geothermal project in Taiwan was mentioned in local news stating that an additional environmental review is likely to come through before said project can be carried out.
According to the local newspaper, “the project proposes drilling 10 geothermal wells in Lize in Yilan County’s Wujie Township over a 10-year period. A private venture, the project is expected to cost US$304.2 million and would generate up to 101 MW of electricity per year, making it the largest thermal power station in the nation.”
The project would need to drill at great depths and concerns for seismic activity and the impact it could have to underground water reserves that are deemed as “strategic”, yet engineers working on the project says that there is no cause for concern for the latter since “tap water and not groundwater would be used” for testing.
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Source: Taipei Times
