Not long after the Formosa Plastics Group’s (FPG) chemical plant in Kaohsiung County’s Renwu Township (仁武) was found to have polluted surrounding farmland, FPG’s sixth naphtha cracker was shaken by two serious industrial accidents within 18 days. In the second incident, pressurized hot oil leaked from the complex’s second oil refinery, causing a fire.
People are angry about these incidents and worried that the resulting pollution could pose health risks and kill crops and fish or make them unfit to eat.