Chinese people "don't like going to court," explains Andrea Y. H. Chen, secretary general of the New Environment Foundation, and legal procedures are slow and costly.
但由於汙染後勁環境是既有的事實，當後勁人以強烈手段抗爭時，中油因為理虧，加上整個大環境的改變，也使中油不能再「我行我素」，而採取其他方式，好達成建立五輕的目標。