Pollution can be seen but not punished! Hundreds of residents in the south of Linkou are complaining about the burning of exhaust gases from factories in violation of the regulations of agricultural land.

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The residents of Nanshili, Linkou District, New Taipei City, could not bear to report to the New Taipei City Environmental Protection Bureau that the surrounding agricultural land factories had been emitting exhaust gas and burning unknown objects for a long time, but they always received a reply that "no black smoke pollution was found in the open air burning garbage." A total of eight local communities and hundreds of residents expressed the hope that the city government would face up to the air pollution, noise and traffic problems caused by the factory and return to the "agricultural land use" standard.

On the 29th of last month, the New Taipei Municipal Bureau of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Bureau, the Economic Development Bureau and the Urban Development Bureau, together with the illegal demolition team, a total of more than a dozen people and large battles jointly attended the meeting, but in the end, they only told the residents that they should not take a whole or dozens of factories as the scope of the report, insisting that residents approach the factory and photograph the house number, address and appearance of each factory one by one, so that the official can further identify whether it is an illegal building. This makes the residents helpless, "violations can be seen but not punished."

In addition, there are differences among bureaus in determining the norms of land use in this area. although the territorial planning map shows that the area is an "agricultural area," and the map platform of the Council of Agriculture is marked in red as "an illegal factory of agricultural land," the New Taipei City Bureau of Agriculture said that it could not be confirmed yet. the explanation has been handed over to the staff of the land office. Let the residents sigh, "We are just small shrimps, but we have to fight the big whales." It is difficult to solve the problem of factories on agricultural land.

Green is an agricultural grain crop, blue is farmed fish fish, orange is used for animal husbandry, light yellow is a farmhouse, and red is a factory (photo source / screenshot)

Officials advise the public to "report and protect themselves."

The reporter again called the works Section of Linkou District Public Office in New Taipei City, and the undertaker surnamed Xu, who was in charge of the land use zoning application business, responded that the department was only responsible for "land zoning inquiry" and did not interfere with the public whistle-blowing business. She points out that people need to pay to apply for land use zoning inquiry and provide the "lot number" of the place, which is different from the address, because the address does not fully represent the location of the building. "the lot number is the most clear and will not go wrong." The charging method is 100 yuan for five lots below.

However, the lot number is only marked on the land title, and only the landlord will know it. In this way, how can the whistleblowing public know the factory lot number?. "that's someone else's personal income, so why should I tell you?" She said it was impossible to find out. However, she also suggested that members of the public could still "try their luck" by listing the address and photos of the factory on the prosecution documents. In response to the public's response to the safety risks of going to the factory to take pictures in person, she responded: "this is very difficult. You have to report but do not want to let others know, so you should know how to protect yourself."

Before the deadline, the reporter telephoned the New Taipei Municipal Bureau of Agriculture again to confirm that the contractor explained that if he only reported the illegal factories on the agricultural land, there was no need to apply for a "land zoning certificate" from the district office. As long as he went to the municipal government website to submit his complaint, the staff of the relevant bureau office would reply. At the same time, he also said that the case is already being dealt with.

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