It is unfortunate that the government of Malaysia has on February issued a temporary licence to Lynas of Australia to begin processing rare earth metals in Kuantan. it is designed to be the world.s largest rare earth processing plant. the total cost is estimated to be 250 million
The cost is not much, but the cost in terms of lives from the effects of the toxic radioactive waste will be tremendous. lives will be lost and there will disastrous health consequences for the people not only of Kuantan but to surrounding districts of Pahang, and possible toxic effects to other parts of the peninsula as strong winds are a perpetual event in this part of the world.
The government of Malaysia and its Atomic Energy and licensing authority has failed to research on rare earth metal refining as otherwise they would not have permitted the Lynas plant to be licensed and constructed.
PM Najib has suggested that the radioactive waste could be secured in a special waste collection centre, and this will neutralise the radioactive waste. this is simply ridiculous and it means that the atomic guardians show a severe lack of scientific awareness of the disastrous effects of radioactive waste of rare earth refineries. their advice to PM Najib is based on ignorance and complete unawareness of the dangers of rare earth mining and refining.
PM NAJIB AND HIS ATOMIC ENERGY TEAM STRONGLY ADVISED TO VISIT THE RARE EARTH MINES IN BOUTOU, CHINA
THEY would be greatly shocked with the conditions of the mines, and witness the disastrous effects on the environment and the dangerous hazards to the lives of the people.
The enclosed report with pictures would open their eyes, and they would immediatey revoke the license given to Lynas to operate a rare earth plant in Kuantan
By SIMON PARRY in China and ED DOUGLAS in Scotland
Created 7:32 PM on 26th January 2011
This toxic lake poisons Chinese farmers, their children and their land. It is what's left behind after making the magnets for Britain's latest wind turbines... and, as a special Live investigation reveals, is merely one of a multitude of environmental sins committed in the name of our new green Jerusalem
The lake of toxic waste at Baotou, China, which as been dumped by the rare earth processing plants in the background
On the outskirts of one of China’s most polluted cities, an old farmer stares despairingly out across an immense lake of bubbling toxic waste covered in black dust. He remembers it as fields of wheat and corn.
Yan Man Jia Hong is a dedicated Communist. At 74, he still believes in his revolutionary heroes, but he despises the young local officials and entrepreneurs who have let this happen.
‘Chairman Mao was a hero and saved us,’ he says. ‘But these people only care about money. They have destroyed our lives.’
Vast fortunes are being amassed here in Inner Mongolia; the region has more than 90 per cent of the world’s legal reserves of rare earth metals, and specifically neodymium, the element needed to make the magnets in the most striking of green energy producers, wind turbines.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1350811/In-China-true-cost-Britains-clean-green-wind-power-experiment-Pollution-disastrous-scale.html
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