LETTER | Redzuan, so profits of Lynas are more important than the safety of our people and country?
| Sahabat Alam Malaysia and the Consumers Association of Penang are shocked by the recent statement of Entrepreneur Development Minister Mohd Redzuan Md Yusof, who said Lynas Malaysiato export its wastes back to Australia as the plant’s investments are “too big to ignore”.
Moreover, it is not the entrepreneur minister’s mandate to interfere with the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change , which is responsible for handling the toxic and radioactive wastes generated by the Lynas Plant in Gebeng, Kuantan. The entrepreneur minister should be supporting the efforts of the Energy Minister Yeo Bee Yin in ensuring that Lynas sticks to the undertaking given to the government.SAM and CAP have always been calling for the wastes to be exported as these wastes cannot be regarded as naturally-occurring radioactive material but are in fact technologically-enhanced have been made dangerous by technological processes which involve removal from the ground and concentrated by mechanical and chemical processes.
Given that uranium and thorium and their daughters have very long half-lives of millions and billions of years, the best option in safeguarding public health and the environment is to send the wastes back to Australia, so that the Malaysian government does not have the responsibility of managing this waste, which will remain radioactive for an incredibly long time.
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