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Taiwan’s Aboriginal Peoples

2% 2%

72%

12% 12%

Taiwan's Ethnic Groups

Indigenes

Foreigners

Taiwan Energy Sources

Electricity)supply)of)Taiwan)in)2011)

Pumped'storage.hydropower.1.15%.

Thermal.power.78.59%.

nuclear.power.16.70%.

ConvenAonal.hydropower,.geothermal,.solar.and.wind.power.3.56%.

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Wang-‐an Island

Orchid Island

Daren Township

Orchid Island 蘭嶼 and the Dawu, Tao or Yami

Orchid Island 蘭嶼 and the Dawu, Tao or Yami

Traditional food: yam and sweet potato

Traditional food: flying fish

Supermarket: Han people ‘s foods and goods

House with low quality built by government

Tao’s underground house Christian church

Economic Activities

Colonized History Christianized History

The nuclear waste repository on the coast of Lanyu

Local Protests

NaJonal-‐Global Protests: The AnJ-‐Nuclear Movement

News conference December 2011

IntroducJon of Field sites Nuclear Waste in Taiwan 1978 the first nuclear plant-‐

Chin Shan 1981 the second nuclear plant-‐

KuoSheng 1984 the third nuclear plant-‐

MaanShan Nuclear waste storage Issues •  1982 Lanyu received the

first batch of 10,008 barrels of nuclear waste.

•  2008 Recommended

candidate sites: 1. Penghu Island 2. Xuhai village 3. NanRan village •  2010 reselected

candidate sites 1. NanRan village 2. Wuciou Island

Nantian Village

Xuhai Village

1.Chin Shan

2.KuoSheng

3.MaanShan

German Protesters: Environmental JusJce or NIMBY-‐ism?

The Vexingest Problem with Waste

Premature Deaths due to Coal PolluJon

•  Worldwide esJmates 170,000-‐300,000 •  Australia esJmate: 4,500 •  China esJmate: 47,000 •  India esJmate: 11,000 •  Ontario esJmate: 668

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