Taipei City Councilor James Wei (
"When Mayor Ma Ying-jeou (
If the city keeps ignoring the problem, Wei said, he does not rule out the possibility of asking the Control Yuan to step in and impeach the city government.
Official reports show that the industrial park in Nankang has seen the city's worst dumping of waste soil ever.
It might take four years and NT$860 million to deal with the 650,000m3 mound -- which is seven stories high -- that was illegally discarded at the site between 1991 and 1997.
Showing a video tape recently filmed by his assistants, Wei said that the Metropolitan Construction Co Ltd (大都市建設開發) has unlawfully ferried truckloads of waste soil from a construction site on Juikuang Road in Neihu District to Miaoli County instead of Keelung City -- the company's approved dumping site.
"I'm very curious to know when the city government plans to take action. Is it going to wait until somebody dies and makes headlines?" he said.
Ho Yu-jung (
"Local governments need to team up to tackle the problem. The city should also make it a priority to add more designated dumping grounds," he said, adding that the city currently only has three such facilities.
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