{"id":28870,"date":"2014-04-10T12:51:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T16:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/static\/?p=28870"},"modified":"2014-04-11T10:51:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:51:16","slug":"wind-developer-infravest-accused-of-sleaze-and-bullying-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/2014\/wind-developer-infravest-accused-of-sleaze-and-bullying-taiwan\/","title":{"rendered":"Wind developer, InfraVest, accused of sleaze and bullying (Taiwan)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note<\/em>: \u00a0Last year, we posted an article on the German wind energy company, InfraVest<\/a>, intimidating local residents \u2014 with hired thugs<\/a>. \u00a0(See J. Michael Cole in the\u00a0Taipei Times<\/a>, \u201cWind power firm hires thugs to protect site,\u201d June 10, 2013.)<\/p>\n

Here’s an update, from a source who asks not to be named. \u00a0Click here<\/a> to read more about this unsavory outfit. \u00a0(The source of the latter article is here<\/a>. \u00a0We used Google Translate to render the Chinese text into English \u2014 with uneven results.)<\/p>\n

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What InfraVest<\/a> has stated are lies, in keeping with their shoddy CSR business practices and use of violence against local residents.<\/p>\n

(1) When InfraVest submitted a single Environmental Impact Assessment<\/a> (EIA) application for Yuanli, Tongsiao and Jhunan townships<\/a>, InfraVest created the illusion of a much larger area for the wind farms, and hence was able to exceed the 10 percent land usage limit. By doing so, it also avoided having to address the three townships\u2019 specific and unique environmental requirements. After receiving conditional EIA approval, InfraVest submitted a Difference of Environmental Impact (DEI) evaluation and requested that five wind turbine sites be shifted to Yuanli, bringing the total there to 14, which is well above the 10 percent limit.<\/p>\n

(2) Local residents were not adequately informed or provided a proper public consultation session prior to construction, and InfraVest manipulated data and paperwork to obtain approval from the EPA without proper public consultation.<\/p>\n

(3) In total, there are to be 14 wind turbines (\u2265120 m) installed along 3 km of coastline, with the closest a mere 134m from human settlement. A number of these have already been built in an area reserved for bird conservation.<\/p>\n

You can contact autoamateur@gmail.com<\/a> for more details. You can also check out independent media Coolloud\u2019s detailed reporting<\/a> for photos and a views of where the wind turbines are placed and their setbacks. \u00a0(Click here<\/a> for an imperfect Google translation of Coolloud\u2019s report \u2014 Editor.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Editor\u2019s note: \u00a0Last year, we posted an article on the German wind energy company, InfraVest, intimidating local residents \u2014 with hired thugs. \u00a0(See J. Michael Cole in the\u00a0Taipei Times, \u201cWind power firm hires thugs to protect site,\u201d June 10, 2013.) Here’s an update, from a source who asks not to be named. \u00a0Click here to read more about this unsavory outfit. \u00a0(The source of the latter article is here. \u00a0We used Google Translate to render the Chinese text into English \u2014 with uneven results.) What InfraVest has stated are lies, in keeping with their shoddy CSR business practices and use of violence against local residents. (1) When InfraVest submitted a single Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) application for Yuanli, Tongsiao and Jhunan townships, InfraVest created the illusion of a much larger area for the wind farms, and hence was able to exceed the 10 percent land usage limit. By doing so, it also avoided having to address the three townships\u2019 specific and unique environmental requirements. After receiving conditional EIA approval, InfraVest submitted a Difference of Environmental Impact (DEI) evaluation and requested that five wind turbine sites be shifted to Yuanli, bringing the total there to 14, which is well above the 10 percent limit. (2) Local residents were not adequately informed or provided a proper public consultation session prior to construction, and InfraVest manipulated data and paperwork to obtain approval from the EPA without proper public consultation. (3) In total, there are to be 14 wind turbines (\u2265120 m) installed along 3 km of coastline, with the closest a mere 134m from human settlement. A number of these have already been built in an area reserved for bird conservation. You can contact autoamateur@gmail.com for more details. You can also check out independent media Coolloud\u2019s detailed reporting for photos and a viewsRead More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[171,157,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windturbinesyndrome.com\/static\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}