But environmentalists are convinced that the marine habitat of Yenliao, lying within a marine resource conservation area immensely rich in both the number of species and their populations, will be devastated, and that the three-kilometer golden beach of fine quartz sand which runs from Yenliao to Fulung, one of the priceless ecological and tourist resources of the northeast coast, may be lost along with it.
在核四廠即將展開的復工興建過程中，雖然尚看不到任何立即的核能危機或發電利益，卻已然失去了鹽寮海域這個生物種類與數量皆極為豐富的資源保護區。而鹽寮到福隆一帶長約三公里的細粒石英質沙灘，及東北角無價的生態及觀光資產也可能隨之而去。