The politicians' remarks did not go down well among local fishermen from Chiku, who expressed their anger by banging on several tables at the meeting.
"The only thing I care about is the oyster fields where I have spent my entire lifetime. Am I wrong to fight for my right to live?" one long-time oyster farmer said.
"I don't understand why we fishermen have become third-class citizens in our own country. The government always takes coastal land to build industrial parks," he said.
Environmentalists said yesterday that they would highlight several ecology-related issues, such as carbon dioxide emissions from the proposed site, to organizations in the international community in a bid to pressure the government to reconsider its industrial development policy.
"In the Pinnan project, we see that people's right to live has been ignored by the government and industry. We can never restore the ecology once they start to build the complex," said Huang Min-ching (
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