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CPC Corporation, Taiwan
environment related education and similar activities and eco-experiences and teaching are used to popularize the concepts of environmental protection, of cherishing Taiwan’s natural resources and of committing to leave a clean environment for the generations that will follow. The company takes the lead in calling on communities to come together on local ecological issues and in showing concern for local commercial development to be environment friendly; also, in practical measures like park and forest adoption, supporting garbage clean-ups and marine pollution remediation. In further educational developments, CPC’s Taiwan Oil Field Exhibition Hall at Chuhuangkeng in Miaoli County was officially certified as an environmental education facility on August 22, 2017.
It is the only educational facility for oil extraction. Another company-developed environmental education site is the CPC Kaohsiung Refinery Environmental Education Park, which was certified as the only petrochemical industry environmental educational facility on January 22, 2018.
CPC is deeply loyal to its home country and so is passionate about protecting the nation’s environment. In that cause it will strive to raise its environmental performance by deploying the latest in pollution- control technology, systematizing its processes for higher efficiency and greater added-value, investing in the circular economy and waste recycling and value increase – all in the pursuit of developing sustainability in its operations and the sharing of good health and prosperity with citizens.
Adapting proactively to reduce pollution
Following the promulgation of the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Act by the administration of President in 2000, Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the Executive Yuan has introduced the Enforcement Rules, subsidiary legislation and related control standards of the Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Act. Many CPC plant locations have been listed as sites for pollution response, pollution control or pollution remediation. CPC has proposed appropriate and respective pollution response, control and remediation plans and the company has implemented the related soil and groundwater pollution surveys and pollution remediation measures in accordance with related regulations. In 2020, CPC has 3 sites listed for pollution response, 29 listed for pollution control and 8 listed for remediation, while remediation has been completed at 39 sites by the end of 2020.
Kaohsiung Port Terminal site (Wharves No 19 and No 20) was leased by CPC from the Port of Kaohsiung and used for loading and unloading crude oil until those operations were suspended in 1996 and the land was returned to the Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan International Ports Corporation. On October 14, 2013, Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan International Ports Corporation notified CPC to address the problem of