Particularly at a time when the government had no environmental policy at all, "civil disobedience was a stage that environmental movement had to pass through," Lin Chun-yi concludes.
這一場抗爭下來，中油也不得不表示，環保雖是大勢所趨，但確是後勁人的抗爭才使中油加快了腳步，「即使最後決定不建五輕，中油的汙染防治也是非做不可，不可能再往回走！」中油總廠長裴泊渝說。