Dossier Formosa Plastics / Black Planet 2009 - Ethecon

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Conferencia de la Fundación 21 de noviembre de 2009 Compilación familia Wang, Lee Chih-tsuen y otros responsables FORMOSA Continuación Selección de enlaces: http://www.coking.com/forum/tm.asp?m=450 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosa_Plastics_Group http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosa_Plastics http://www.fpg.com.tw/index_eng.asp http://www.fpcusa.com/ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/business/17wang.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=formosa%20pla stic%20group&st=cse http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-10-07-texasexplosion_x.htm http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1007-09.htm http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2009/06/06/2003445503 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/taiwan/t-business/2009/05/29/210051/p2/Formosa-Plastics.htm http://www.taiwantoday.tw/ct.asp?xItem=59695&CtNode=436 http://www.osha.gov/pls/osaweb/owares.do_search http://www.csb.gov/newsroom/detail.aspx?nid=173 http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/ehs/news/toxic-home-on-the-range página 12 www.ethecon.org
Compilación familia Wang, Lee Chih-tsuen y otros responsables FORMOSA Continuación Greetings Wild at Heart / Taiwan www.ethecon.org Conferencia de la Fundación 21 de noviembre de 2009 Wild at Heart Legal Defense Association, Taiwan is grateful to Ethecon for pillorying of the Formosa Plastics Corporation with this year’s Black Planet Award. A member of the Formosa Plastics Group, responsible for nearly 30% of Taiwan’s total carbon emissions, Formosa Plastics has managed to fool governments and large parts of the population around the world into allowing it to operate in a manner that poisons people and the rest of the environment wherever Formosa Plastics and its affiliates go. Perhaps the Black Planet Award to Formosa Plastics will help bring attention to Taiwan’s shame, to the company that more than any other represents the sacrifice of fishers, farmers livelihoods through its destruction and pollution of sea coasts and farmland. Perhaps this will expose how its promises of jobs and prosperity to one of the poorest areas in Taiwan have amounted to nil, or rather have resulted in the area becoming a forgotten wasteland where people are forced to breathe toxins and where the gangsters and politicians elected with support from Formosa Plastics are indistinguishable. High government officials admit that “all the gangsters in Yunlin (location of Formosa Plastics’ largest facility in Taiwan) are raised and nutured by Formosa”. Wild at Heart’s director Robin Winkler was a commissioner with Taiwan EPA’s Environmental Impact Assessment Commission for two years during which he joined other commissioners in attempting to hold Formosa Plastics to its promises, commitments and legal obligations. During this time the degree of Formosa Plastics’ influence on government, academia and enforcement officials was startlingly clear. The commission was unable to obtain complete, accurate or timely information on Formosa Plastics’ activities. After Robin left the commission he was beat up in the Taiwan EPA by a locally elected gangster while the manager of Formosa Plastics looked on. página 13
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