Gloria Hsu (徐光蓉) of National Taiwan University (NTU) (a member of the Taiwan Environmental Protection Union (TEPU)) told a press conference that the TEPU would publish a brochure titled The Illusory Petrochemical Kingdom to highlight the major mistakes and unanswered questions in the EIA report presented by Kuokuang Petrochemical Corp.:
Hsu said Taiwan imports almost all of its energy sources, with the petrochemical industry consuming about one-third of this but contributing only about 4 percent of GDP.