You cannot have both," Chou Chun Fan, Formosa Ha Tinh's external relations manager told state-run VTC14 television channel, speaking in Vietnamese.
"(You) need to choose whether to catch fish and shrimp or to build a state-of-the-art steel mill," he said, according to a video of the interview posted online.
Although the pipeline itself is legal, Formosa is only permitted to discharge treated waste water into the ocean, according to a media report.
"The problem is what and how (Formosa) discharged," from the waste-water pipe, deputy environment minister Vo Tuan Nhan said, according to the report.
The report also said that Formosa had imported some 300 tonnes of toxic chemicals to clean the waste-water pipeline, a shipment the Vietnam Environment .... http://www.dodacbando.com/ Environment
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