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Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Adopting international technology, achieving sustainability
Implementation of environmental protection and energy conservation
In order to fulfill its corporate responsibility, CPC has long been dedicated to a variety of environmental protection efforts, including improvement of wastewater disposal, air pollution, waste treatment and soil and groundwater contamination, implementation of environmental protection policies, active prevention of pollution, strengthening control of source of pollution, utilization of low pollution production processes and the latest pollution control facilities and use of the best available control technology (BACT) and equipment to reduce pollution that may be caused by production, as well as transportation and storage processes in its new projects. On top of that, CPC has further deepened its commitment to ecologically beneficial measures that include improving the quality of its petroleum products, reducing pollutant and energy waste and adapting to the climate change. In order to implement the environmental policy of pollution prevention, energy and waste reduction and sustainable environment, CPC has invested more than NT$50 billion in its environmental protection efforts since 1989. Since 1995, all of the company’s business units have been required to comply with the standards of ISO 14001 environmental management system. As of the end of 2020, 22 of them had received official certification. In response to global trend, CPC deployed an environmental accounting system in 2004 to improve its environment protection performance.
Ecological protection Every effort made
In all its development projects, CPC follows through on the commitments written into the respective environmental impact assessment (EIA) results, introduces the appropriate environmental protection measures in response to the potential risks posed
by specific development undertakings, maintains comprehensive monitoring systems designed to protect environmental quality and biological diversity around its facilities and aims to achieve standards in the quality of their atmospheric emissions higher than those stipulated in current national environmental protection regulations, in order to improve its environment protection performance The 3rd LNG terminal investment plan is no exception. In order to demonstrate its determination to protect and preserve the environment, CPC set up the Guantang Industrial Park (Port) Ecological Preservation Committee on November 7, 2018 for consultation and review of its environment protection efforts and achievements with the aim of achieving the goals of marine environmental conservation and sustainable community development.
In the monitoring of algal reef ecology, six stations are set up from the south to the north. In 2020, the Taoyuan algal reefs coast survey results show that the total number of algal species is 40 species, 15 macroalgae, and 25 crustose coralline algae. The total number of algae species in the Guanxin Algae Reef is the highest (36 species), while the total number of algae species in the Datan Algae Reef and Baiyu Algae Reef is 30. In terms of the number of crustose coralline algae, Guanxin Algae Reef exhibited the highest number of crustose coralline algae (23 species), and the number of algae species Datan algal reef exhibited is the second (19 species). The number of crustose coralline algae the Baiyu algae reef exhibited is the least (16 species).
In addition to the regular monitoring and survey of algal reef ecology, CPC has completed habitat restoration for little terns since 2019. CPC has worked with the Wild Bird Society of Taoyuan and the Taoyuan City Government, and the reproductive success rate has increased from 17 ~ 30% to 68% recently. In 2020, reproduction success rate, moreover, increased to 92%,
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