NSTnation SAM: Irresponsible to allow rare earth mining in Perak
She said the state was already home to a permanent radioactive waste facility in the Kledang Range that contained dangerous and harmful thorium and uranium wastes inherited from the notorious Asian Rare-Earth plant in Bukit Merah, Ipoh, from the mid-1980s to 1990s.
“It is most shocking that the Perak state government as well as the Water, Land and Natural Resources Ministry have not learnt the tragic lessons of the ARE plant that resulted in serious radioactive poisoning in the Bukit Merah community. “As such, it is most irresponsible of the Perak state government and KATS to promote environmentally unsound investments in rare earth, despite the ARE lesson and the controversial Lynas rare earth operations in Gebeng, Pahang,” she said today.
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