Perak MBI CEO Anuar Zainal Abidin said they are aware of the past. News of the setting up of a rare earth refinery in Pahang is sending jitters down the spines of Malaysians who remember the drawn-out battle against a similar plant in Bukit.
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Today about 30 years later the Government is allowing a new rare earth.
. Memories of Bukit Merah. And for the last two decades both. Below is the chronology of what happened when a radioactive rare earth plant was set up in Bukit Merah.
Gebeng will soon acquire a new RM700 million rare earth plant which will generate radioactive waste and which many people and. This proposed exploration and mining of rare earth must not be allowed any further. Meenakshi also reminded the authorities that Perak is already home to a radioactive permanent waste facility in the Kledang Range that contains dangerous and.
On March 8 2011 a New York Times article revealed construction of a world-scale rare earth RE refinery project in an industrial estate in Gebeng near the Port of Kuantan. Bukit Merah often abbreviated as Bt Merah is a planning area and new town situated in the southernmost part of the Central Region of SingaporeThe planning area borders Tanglin to the. File picture shows labourers working at an under-construction Lynas plant in Gebeng April 19 2012.
It is highly irresponsible for the Perak governments investment arm to even contemplate of a project such as this after the suffering that the villagers in Bukit Merah had to go through. Nearer home at the rare earth refinery at Bukit Merah in Perak CAP documented birth defects and leukemia cases within five years in the community. Two decades ago Mitsubishi Chemical established a rare earth plant in an area called Bukit Merah west of the city of Ipoh in Malaysia.
The Perak state is already home to a radioactive permanent waste facility in the Kledang Range that contains dangerous and harmful wastes of thorium and uranium inherited. Mitsubishis rare-earth refinery is Malaysias worst industrial tragedy said T. Few Malaysians actually know that there was a rare earth plant in Bukit Merah Perak which has been closed some 10 or more years ago following a ruling by the High Court of Malaysia that the company involved was in negligence and that the radioactive waste.
To understand why there is so much opposition to the Lynas rare earth plant we have to look at the sad history of Bukit Merah New Village just a few kilometres south of. It has been 30 years since Asian Rare Earth Sdn Bhd ARE set up its processing plant in Bukit Merah Perak which eventually became a living nightmare to nearby residents. June 22 2010 -- I decided to use Anil Noel Netto a Malaysian journalists blog this morning titled Aussie Firm Builds Rare Earth Plant in Kuantan.
The Bukit Merah case is little known even elsewhere in Malaysia and virtually unknown in the West because Mitsubishi Chemical quietly agreed to fix the problem even. Jayabalan a public health consultant who lived in Bukit Merah in the late 1980s fighting for.
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