Gruesome piece about Taiwan bureaucracy and an offshore wind construction worker fatally wounded on the job
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Thats sad and all. But is obvious to blow up one death with focus on wind there are HUGE political/business bias and incentives to do so. Pitt the fool that iant getting paid and tries to blow up something so miniscule for FB likes. But perhaps a redeeming feature is giving the government the middle finger.
Why discuss one death? If not to debate an industry. 10 farmers die a month, fishermen as well (note temple quantities) and food is objectively FAR more important than any other industry. I have 2 folks i know in my village that just died from machinery accidents. Why not make them international incidences with John Deere corporate greed?
The health system her is fatally flawed, especially with logistics. Something people also tend to ignore. Temple ceremonies and related industry kill hundreds a year.
People need to think more 
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I cant remember the details, but Australia had an issue with Foreign Workers aboard Natural Gas Rigs off the NW Coast of OZ a few years ago. Seems it is a ‘grey area’ in (or rather, off the coast of) many countries, as the people concerned are not ‘inside the border’.
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Count them as covid deaths as the article suggest is to blame for delays. No sense wasting a tally for more government regulations lol.
Yeah, think that could alienate the industry she is trying to cover.
She’s a vocal pro-nuclear fan. She was an odd fit with the TT to be sure.
That piece linked above is a good one though. When she’s on, she can really write.
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Someone here on fm mentioned first-hand knowledge of a very similar case - I’m assuming it was this one, although the details weren’t identical. Completely possible that two deaths could have gone unremarked, though.
I don’t think the point was precisely that he died, but that Taiwan still has quite a lot of lingering third-worldism in its bureaucracy that - in this particular case - might have been the cause of an unnecessary death.
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Her full time job is writing about the wind industry now.
Anybody who can make a living in the media here , you have to respect that. Almost stretches to the K-man…Almost.
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